Thursday, May 26, 2022

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


Thanks Kim! 

This is from Jalopnik, and I think Kim for sending it to me, because I don't look at what Jalopnik does, as I'm pretty sure they do enough good stuff that I'd constantly be reposting what they've already done, and, if I were doing that, there would be no point to looking at my blog at all.... it would only be a reflection of Jalopnik

3 comments:

  1. Jalopnik is a business enteprise, JACG is a labor of love - a big freakin' difference. There may be overlapping content, but your blog show tons of stuff that Jalopnik would never touch, which is but one reason this blog is so much more interesting than whatever else there is out there.

    ReplyDelete
  2. you put the current jalponik to shame. keep it up!

    ReplyDelete
  3. I quit following Jalopnik on Facebook because so many of their articles were political, and sometimes barely related to cars.

    ReplyDelete