Bloodhound (SSC) Gang: Behind the Scenes with the Team Shooting for a 1000-mph ... - Car and Driver (blog)
The British have a long history of slightly unhinged motorsport projects, from shed-built hill-climb specials through to the Garagista teams who reinvented Formula 1 and sports-car racing in the 1950s and ’60s. But even by the standards of such... ) If Bloodhound succeeds, it will be breaking another British-set record, Thrust SSC’s run to a just-supersonic 763 mph in 1997. The presence of many Thrust veterans on the Bloodhound project suggests that this obsession with ultimate speed is a... There, on a specially prepared 12-mile-long course on the Hakseen Pan, a natural salt flat, Bloodhound will attempt to break the 800-mph barrier, before returning next year with a more powerful car to try for 1000 mph. Although the fundamentals are the same as when we last told you about the car in 2012, many of the details have been changed—and the car has been redesigned several times. As per the original plan, Bloodhound will use both jet and rocket power, and be driven by Andy Green , the serving RAF pilot who drove Thrust SSC to the record back in ’97. But while Bloodhound’s prime mover is the same—a Rolls-Royce EJ100 jet... Source: blog.caranddriver.com
