The design has been finalised for the world’s fastest car, set to be the first to top 1,000mph (1,610km/h). The Bloodhound SSC team are undergoing ‘parametric optimisation’, tweaking the blueprint ...

NEWQUAY, England (Reuters) - The Bloodhound Supersonic Car, effectively a fighter jet on wheels, on Thursday kicked off a bid to roar into the record books by eventually reaching 1,000 mph (1,610 kmh) ...

Bloodhound SSC, is a car created by the international education initiative 'BLOODHOUND Project'to attempt a 1,000 mph world land speed record. The team aim to break the land speed record with the ...

The Bloodhound Land Speed Record car has passed the 500mph (800kph) mark as it continues to gather pace in the Kalahari ...

For the last 15 years, Bloodhound has held the dream of setting a new land speed record with a rocket-powered car. But the goal of reaching 800 mph (1,287 km/h) doesn’t come cheap, and the team’s ...

The land speed record has stood at around 763 miles per hour since it was set by Andy Green in Thrust SSC back in 1997. The former air force pilot turned jet car driver was set to break his own record ...

It looks like something NASA would aim at the sky and launch into orbit but no, it’s a car. And by the time its builders’ blast it across a desert in South Africa next year, they hope to set the land ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — An earthbound jet known as the Bloodhound became one of the world’s 10 fastest cars this week, on target for its goal to set a new land speed record. “The feeling in this car is ...

Land speed racing sure moves slow sometimes. Unlike other forms of motorsports, like Formula 1, where there are new cars every year, land speed racing moves more in fits and starts, most of the time.

In the UK, the Bloodhound Land Speed Record (LSR) team confirmed plans to challenge for the world land speed record using a zero-emissions rocket. Powered by concentrated hydrogen peroxide, the rocket ...