A British man named Richard Jenkins has just broken the world land speed record for a wind-powered vehicle. The high-tech contraption he used is called the Greenbird, the fifth wind-powered ...
At a time when engineers thought it wise to bolt airplane engines into cars to break speed records, Fiat created its own 28.5 ...
Yet NASCAR’s roots lie in two very different places: In Prohibition-era moonshine running in the South, and in Florida’s brief history as a coveted land-speed record locale. Today, we’ll ...
In the 1920s and 1930s national heroes were the breed who sought glory by pushing the boundaries on land, water, and in the ...
but electric racers have long been out there chasing land speed records as well. At the most famous land speed trials, such as Bonneville’s Speed Week, speed runs take place over miles ...