Emirates Team New Zealand, the America’s Cup-winning sailing team, has launched an attempt to break the wind-powered land speed record later this year.

Earlier this week, Team New Zealand officially unveiled its land speed record challenger, the Horonuku. The vehicle will be powered, for lack of a better term, by a 10-meter (32.8 feet) tall rigid carbon-fiber wingsail. The wingsail is designed to propel the land yacht up to 155.3 mph (250 km/h) if the conditions allow.

Glenn Ashby will pilot the vehicle. Ashby has won two America’s Cup Matches as a sailor with Team New Zealand. 

He is testing in Auckland, before Horonuku is moved to Lake Gairdner to continue testing and tuning on the salt lake to be ready to roll when a weather window comes along

https://jalopnik.com/the-new-land-yacht-aiming-to-break-a-land-speed-record-1848961058

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