Motorcycle land speed record attempt
There is something about Englishmen and going REALLY fast. They seem to be very good at it. Both the engineering involved in building land speed record cars and driving them. The current land speed record is held by Andy Green, driving the ThrustSSC (that’s: SuperSonic Car) and yes, ThrustSSC did break the sound barrier on land on four wheels with an average speed over one mile in two passes of 1227.986 km/h. Any way you look at it, that’s insanely…