Land Speed Racing, specifically at the Bonneville Salt Flats, can be a test of patience as well as an ongoing science experiment. The latter part is especially true for newcomers to the sport as they ...

Setting world records, no matter the activity, takes some very serious effort. Oh, and when we go a step further and try to break records set, things get even more serious. It can take months of ...

There are very few people that can say that they’ve designed and built their own V-12 engine without an automaker behind them. Fewer yet can say that they’ve used that engine to power a ...

Records are made to be broken, and few significant benchmarks go unchallenged for long. But Andy Green has been the holder of the world land speed record for nearly three decades, and remains the only ...

Discover the 25 fastest things in the world, from peregrine falcons to lightning. Explore record-breaking speeds in nature, ...

A speed driver died while trying to break a record during the Bonneville Speed Week event in Utah on Sunday. Chris Raschke, 60, was driving at 283 miles per hour while trying to set a land speed ...

The SSC Tuatara and Dr. Larry Caplin were quite possibly on pace to reset the production-vehicle land-speed record they themselves set, according to SSC founder and CEO Jerod Shelby. It didn’t happen.

A driver going 283 mph trying to set a land speed record during a racing event at Utah’s famed Bonneville Salt Flats died Sunday after he lost control of his rocket-like vehicle called the Speed Demon ...

The desire to break the land speed record goes back to the earliest days of the motor car, where inventors would compete against each other to see whose machine was the fastest. The race hit its peak ...

British engineering giant JCB’s bid to set a world hydrogen land speed record is surging ahead—with the car now built and testing under way. The company unveiled its aim to set the record with the ...