Land speed record broken in Bonneville

[Bob]

The outright land speed record on a two-wheel vehicle powered by an internal combustion engine was broken on Tuesday 5 September by seven times AMA dirt-track Champion Chris Carr on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.

The machine used for this attempt, the “Lucky 7”, is a streamliner with a specially-built 3000cc V4 turbo-charged engine.

Carr recorded a 1km flying start speed of 351.062 mph (564.979 km/h) and a 1-mile speed of 350.884 mph (564.693 km/h)

[Karma]

Flying start indeed... don't the big 747s etc... fly at around 500 - 550 km/h?

[scumdog]

Unreal!!
Hope it's shown on TV.

["D" FZ1]

That is Quick :gob:

[cowboyz]

yeah, but did he get his knee down?

[Patrick]

...Carr recorded a 1km flying start speed of 351.062 mph (564.979 km/h) and a 1-mile speed of 350.884 mph (564.693 km/h)

Pfffttt... it was a carr...

[Motu]

yeah, but did he get his knee down?

Chris Carr is a dirt tracker - he plants a steel shoe on the track at over 160kph sideways,on a Harley,getting a knee down around a roundabout would be pretty easy for him I'd say.

[scumdog]

Ironic how dragsters get within 30mph of that speed in only a 1/4 of a mile.....

[Motu]

But can they run the 11 miles it takes to do a LSR run? A lot of the guys who go to Bonneville race dragsters the rest of the year,there is some cross over of technolgy,but not as much as you'd think.

[NordieBoy]

Flying start indeed... don't the big 747s etc... fly at around 500 - 550 km/h?

Around 800-850kph economical cruising speed.

[Swoop]

How was it timed?
A cop at each end of the runs issuing tickets....?

:beer:

[Bend-it]

How was it timed?
A cop at each end of the runs issuing tickets....?

:beer:

Had to pop up innit?

[McJim]

I'm gonna buy a shack in Invercargill, piss on a lemon tree and fiddle with my VTR until it can break that record.

Seriously though - respect