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Showing posts with label LSR. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LSR. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 14, 2026
Friday, May 09, 2025
this is superb... the fastest Kenworth in Australia - Speedweek 2025 - Rob Waters and his W-Model Kenworth
https://thewest.com.au/lifestyle/motoring/well-go-trucking-fast-ng-b881126810z
And I scooped the Drive by at least 3 days, https://www.thedrive.com/news/kenworth-semi-built-to-break-land-speed-records-is-the-coolest-way-to-go-140-mph OR, they are simply reading my blog and posting the coolest stuff, and not bothering to give me credit as the source
Saturday, March 29, 2025
this was made in 2017 or 2018 by VTR Customs of Switzerland based on an R1200 R supplied by BMW, to race in the Sultans of Sprint series, a custom bike acceleration challenge in Europe that was a 2018/2019 event that didn't return after covid
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Sunday, March 23, 2025
thanks to Volksrob! Here's the story of Peter Mounsey, 96, with his '49 Velocette, the he hit 97 mph with! His goal was one mpg per year of age!
An Australian yachting legend who sailed around the world with his wife in the 1950s
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-16/cars-set-records-at-speed-week-on-lake-gairdner/105054664
https://www.facebook.com/DryLakesRacersAustralia/
https://www.facebook.com/DryLakesRacersAustralia/
Six years ago on Lake Gairdner, Lionel West flipped the original Bronze Aussie at over 250mph. Now it's rebuilt and looking to break 300 mph, but only achieved 291
West set a new Australian record (282mph) for his class of vehicle and reached a top speed of 291mph.
Friday, January 31, 2025
Renault, has made the Filante Record 2025, an ultra-efficient single-seater EV to break records for power consumption and range
pays tribute to three vintage Renaults created to smash land speed records.
The round headlights take after 40 CV des Records from the mid-1920s,
the wheels pushed outward of the body are a nod to the 1934 Nervasport des Records,
the arches are inspired by the gas turbine-powered 1956 Etoile Filante.
Tuesday, December 03, 2024
Friday, November 22, 2024
Saturday, October 12, 2024
Monday, September 02, 2024
Friday, June 14, 2024
a 1935 Riley Kestrel, alone and unloved in Holland was chosen to be the eye magnet for marketing beer... it's working! Then they decided to land speed race it!
Nigel McNally founder and CEO of Brookfield Drinks and The Kestrel Brewing Co (Scotland), said: “Plenty of people told us we couldn’t do it. We have had setbacks and issues, particularly with the aerodynamics"
The car, with trademark fastback styling, had not been touched since 1965 when Nigel and Joel found it.
It's now powered by a specially modified 2.5 litre, 5-cylinder engine capable of 992bhp.
It achieved 7 land-speed records at Elvington Racetrack in June 2021, and is prepped for the June 17th 200mph record attempt..
Tuesday, August 08, 2023
Bonneville is wet
they are also racing in Bolivia at the Salar De Uyuni, https://www.facebook.com/dallashonda
Monday, July 17, 2023
Friday, May 12, 2023
On May 24, Paula Murphy will be celebrated at the Petersen, 1st with a film, then with a panel discussion with her.
Paula Murphy: Undaunted, a film from the Left Behind documentary series created by Pam Miller and Cindy Sisson. The series about women in the automobile and motorsports world, who didn't create the household names that Petty, Knievel, and Breedlove did.
Her family came to Southern California in the 1950s, where she soon won her class in an Alfa Romeo in 1959. Shortly after, she went on to teach at Dan Gurney’s racing school, and caught the attention of marketing genius Andy Granatelli.
She soon became known as “Miss STP”, and driving for Granatelli’s then ubiquitous STP oil-additive brand, she set 365 new stock-car records for Granatelli and Studebaker at the Bonneville Salt Flats in 1963.
She soon became known as “Miss STP”, and driving for Granatelli’s then ubiquitous STP oil-additive brand, she set 365 new stock-car records for Granatelli and Studebaker at the Bonneville Salt Flats in 1963.
Her success made her the first woman to compete in the Indianapolis 500, behind the wheel of the Novi, Granatelli’s challenging Studebaker Indy race car. Back to Bonneville in 1965, she piloted Avenger, the STP jet car—despite four inches of water on the ground—to 243.33 mph.
She drove a Studebaker Avanti coast-to-coast for the Ford Transcontinental Speed record and set four transcontinental speed records.
Her first drag racing was in 1965 driving an Olds 4-4-2 prepared by Dick Landy. Her competitive best was 12.46 at 110 mph.
She was licensed in a Funny Car when Tom ‘The Mongoose’ McEwen, then president of the United Drag Racers Association, welcomed her and presided over her licensing at Lions and Don ‘Big Daddy’ Garlits signed off. The NHRA nixed her license, and Grantelli didn't like that, and got it reinstated. The following year saw her dip into the sevens and break 200 mph.
For the 1969 season, Paula purchased a Barracuda Funny Car built by Don Hardy and spent most of the year match racing around the Midwest—where the money was.
She went to England in 1973, along with Don Schumacher, as part of a three-weekend trip organized by Tony Nancy.
Murphy went on to Grand Prix racing, where she was the only American selected to represent the United States in the first Women’s Grand Prix Race in 1974.
https://robbreport.com/motors/cars/petersen-automotive-museum-honors-racer-paula-murphy-1234842078
Friday, March 24, 2023
today's Google doodle celebrates Kitty O'Niel
O’Neil was born on this day in 1946 to a Cherokee Native American mother and Irish father in Corpus Christi, Texas.
In the late 70s, she made it onto the big screen as a stunt double for films and TV series including The Bionic Woman (1976), Wonder Woman (1977-1979), and The Blues Brothers (1980). .
In 1976, O’Neil was crowned “the fastest woman alive” after zooming across the Alvord Desert at 512.76 miles per hour! She drove a rocket-powered car called the Motivator and surpassed the previous women’s land-speed record by almost 200 mph.
In 1976, O’Neil was crowned “the fastest woman alive” after zooming across the Alvord Desert at 512.76 miles per hour! She drove a rocket-powered car called the Motivator and surpassed the previous women’s land-speed record by almost 200 mph.
Once she broke the women’s record by a landslide, it became evident that she could likely beat the men’s mark too. Unfortunately, her sponsors did not allow her to break the overall record as it threatened the status quo — they wanted to reserve the feat for a male driver.
Wednesday, February 08, 2023
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Saturday, November 12, 2022
Friday, October 21, 2022
just finished watching the Jessi Combs documentary, and they do include the in cockpit camera footage of the run where she crashed
and it shows that her front wheel was gone, and when she came off the afterburner, the jet car just landed on it's nose, and had no brakes, and vibrated madly, and went into the scrub fast, crashed hard and rolled, and she likely died from the crash.
The movie doesn't mention a single thing about that. They do show the jet car remains, and the damn thing was on fire, in pieces, when the team finally arrived at the black cloud of smoke that showed where the wreck was.
Why aren't there any rescue and EMTs at the far end of a land speed racers path? Why the hell are they trying to catch up to a 400 or 500 mph vehicle, from the start of the damn 8 or 15 mile track?
Why not be where the racer is speeding TOO? Instead of FROM?
Winners Take All. Jessi set the speed record, then died.
The documentary isn't thorough, it doesn't hardly show what she did before the land speed race car came around. It doesn't show many of her friends, co-workers, etc.
It does show each run on her way to the record. It does have her mom along during the races, and her dad interviewed after the crash.
Thursday, October 20, 2022
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