Land Speed Records

A short definition of "land speed record" can be: the fastest speed achieved by any wheeled vehicle on land, as opposed to one on water or in the air or on rails. It is standardized as the speed over a course of fixed length, averaged over two runs in opposite directions. In 1 983 Richard Noble who was born on March 6, 1946 in Scotland broke the land speed record in his car Thrust 2. His later...