The Bloodhound team has beaten its target of 450mph by recording a top speed of 461mph, but had to abort a second run thanks to some minor bodywork damage.
Bloodhound, the project to beat the land speed record (LSR) and reach 1,000 miles per hour, has confirmed it is back on the trail of the world record as the company opened a new headquarters and revealed its new livery.
Following the announcement that investment had not been secured for the Bloodhound SSC project, the initiative to reach 1,000 miles per hour in a land vehicle, the administrators were contacted by a number of other interested parties, and a purchaser for the business and assets has now been secured, which will allow the project to continue.
Find out how Renishaw is helping the Bloodhound SSC team to engineer the supersonic car that is destined to break the world land speed record in South Africa in 2019, and then aim to achieve a speed of 1000mph the following year.
The world’s most advanced straight-line racing car, Bloodhound SSC, will be driven for the first time, at Cornwall Airport Newquay this October, twenty years after the current record of 763.035 mph was set.