The first officially registered absolute speed record - 63.149 km/h - was set on December 18, 1898 by Count Gaston de Chasloux-Lobas in an electric car designed by Charles Jeantot at a distance of 1 km.
The first to cross the 100-kilometer mark was on April 29, 1899 by the Belgian Camille Genatzi, who drove an electric car “La Jamais Contente” (French: Always dissatisfied) with an engine power of 40 hp. reached a speed of 105.876 km/h.
The 200-kilometer speed limit was reached in 1911 by racer R. Burman. In 1911, in a Benz car, he showed 228.04 km/h.
The 300-kilometer speed was first achieved by H. O. D. Sigrev in 1927. He showed 327.89 km/h in the Sunbeam car.
The 400-kilometer speed limit was first “crossed” by Malcolm Campbell in the Napier-Campbell car in 1932 (408.63 km/h).
The 500-kilometer speed limit was overcome in 1937 by John Eyeston in a Rolls-Royce Easton car (502.43 km/h).
The 1000-kilometer speed limit was first crossed on October 23, 1970 by the American Harry Gabelich in the Blue Flame rocket car on the Bonneville dry salt lake, showing an average speed of 1014.3 km/h. The Blue Flame was 11.3 m long and weighed 2250 kg.
The highest speed in the world - 1229.78 km/h on a ground vehicle - a jet car (Thrust SSC) was shown by the Englishman Andy Green on October 15, 1997. The average speed over two races was 1226.522 km/h The 21-kilometer long track was marked on the bottom of a dry lake in Nevada (USA). Green's crew was powered by two Rolls-Royce Spey turbojet engines with a total power of 110 thousand horsepower.
The highest speed a woman has achieved in a car is 843.323 km/h. It was shown in December 1976 by the American Kitty Hambleton on a three-wheeled car S.M. Motivator, power 48 thousand. l.c. in the Alward Desert, Oregon, USA. Based on the sum of two races in two directions, her official record is 825.126 km/h.
The highest speed for steam cars was achieved in August 2009 by a car developed by a group of British engineers. The average top speed of the new car in two races was 139.843 miles per hour, or 223.748 kilometers per hour. In the first race, the car reached a speed of 136.103 miles per hour (217.7 kilometers per hour), and in the second - 151.085 miles per hour (241.7 kilometers per hour). The steam car is equipped with 12 boilers in which water is heated by the combustion of natural gas. From the boilers, steam under pressure, at a speed twice the speed of sound, is supplied to the turbine. About 40 liters of water evaporate in the boilers per minute. The total power of the power plant is 360 horsepower.
The fastest production passenger car is the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport. On July 4, 2010, at the Volkswagen test track, driver Pierre Henri Raphanel was able to reach a speed of 427.933 km/h in the first race in one direction, and in the second race in the opposite direction the car accelerated to 434.211 km/h. The result stunned even the creators of the car themselves, who were counting on an approximate maximum speed of 425 km/h. The race was attended by a representative of the German Technical Supervision Agency and representatives of the Guinness Book of Records, who recorded a new maximum speed record of 431.072 km/h (268 miles), which was the average between the two attempts. According to official data from the manufacturer, it reaches speed of 100 km/h in 2.5 seconds, 200 km/h in 6.7 seconds, 300 km/h in 14.6 seconds, 400 km/h in 55.6 seconds. The car is equipped with a W-shaped 16-cylinder 64-valve engine with four turbochargers with a displacement of 7993 cm3. Maximum possible power 1200 hp. at 6000 rpm.
The fastest car running on diesel fuel is the Mercedes-Benz C111-III with a 3-liter engine with a power of 230 hp. During testing on the Nardo circuit in Southern Italy from October 5-15, 1978, it reached a speed of 327.3 km/h.
The fastest production diesel passenger car - the BMW 325tds reaches a speed of 214 km/h. It is equipped with a 6-cylinder 2.5 liter diesel engine with turbocharging. Engine power - 143 hp. Average fuel consumption is 6.5 liters per 100 km.
Speed record for a car with wheel drive: 737.395 km/h. Modern record crews are powered by turbojet or rocket engines; in the same category, the engine must turn the wheels. The record was set on October 18, 2001 by Don Vesco in a Turbinator car on Lake Bonneville.
The first car to be capable of reaching 1,000 mph (1,609 km/h) will be the Bloodhound SSC. The vehicle will be powered by three engines: a hybrid rocket engine, the Eurojet EJ200 jet engine found on the Eurofighter Typhoon, and an 800-horsepower, 12-cylinder V-twin gasoline engine that pumps fuel and provides electrical and hydraulic power to the aircraft and missile. On July 19, 2010, at the Farnborough International Airshow, which opened in the outskirts of London, a presentation of a full-size model of the Bloodhound SSC took place. If all goes as planned, Bloodhound SSC will set a new world land speed record (for manned crews) in 2011.
The first speed record is believed to belong to the French racer and designer Emile Levassor, who set it during the Paris-Bordeaux race. The whole world remembers his phrase, which served as the beginning of the desire for high speeds: “We delivered thirty kilometers per hour! It was real madness! But in 1895, there were no official rules for determining record performance, so formally the French engineer was left without the status of a pioneer.
And it went to Count Gaston de Chasselu-Lobas, who took care of registering his achievement. The car, developed by designer Charles Jeantot, accelerated to 63 km/h at a distance of 1 kilometer. His eternal rival, professional racing driver Camille Zhenatzi, decided to take the title of record holder, who accelerated to 66 km/h just a few days later. This is how a long-term confrontation began, during which the cars continued to be improved and received increasingly improved power units, as well as aerodynamic bodies. In 1899, Comte de Chaslus-Lobas finally managed to significantly outpace the enemy, reaching 92.7 km/h - then such a speed was considered simply unattainable.
But just two months later, Kamil Zhenatzi set the first landmark speed record in a car - he overcame the 100 km/h mark, exceeding it by 5 kilometers. He owed much of his incredible success to a new vehicle - a car called “Forever Dissatisfied,” which was equipped with electric motors and had a streamlined body made of alloyed aluminum alloy.
Surprisingly, the next milestone was first overcome by steam transport, which had not yet been completely written off - in 1906, racer Fred Marriott in a Stanley car accelerated to 205 km/h. Internal combustion engines, then still very imperfect, could not reach such a record. But in 1909, the Blitzen Benz, driven by Victor Emery, achieved a speed of 202 km/h on the Brookland circuit in Great Britain. Two years later, Robert Burman set the next world speed record using a car with an internal combustion engine - he reached a value of 228 km/h.
The next world speed record was set by Henry Seagrev, who used a Sunbeam “The Slug” 1000 hp car, equipped with two aircraft engines with a total power of 900 horsepower. On the Daytona Beach track in 1927, he accelerated to 327 km/h, which allowed him to simultaneously exceed the milestone mileage of 200 per hour. It is interesting that, unlike previously existing prototypes, this machine was not at all light - its total launch weight exceeded 4 tons!
Another famous racer, Malcolm Campbell, who had previously unsuccessfully tried several times to set a world speed record in a Blue Bird car equipped with a Napier engine, could not come to terms with Sigrev’s championship. In 1931, Campbell brought a new generation of his famous car to Daytona Beach, which was called the Campbell-Napier-Railton. During two runs, he showed a speed of 396 km/h, just shy of the next threshold. However, a year later he returned with a slightly modified car, and reached a speed of 404 km/h, officially writing his name in history and receiving the title of knight.
However, soon internal combustion engines also had to make room, giving way to more powerful jet turbines. But until this happened, the American John Eyston took advantage of the maximum available power of the internal combustion engine at that time, installing two Rolls-Royce aircraft engines with a capacity of 5,000 horsepower on his car. In 1937, his record-breaking car reached a speed of 502 km/h, driving several times along the bottom of dry Lake Bonneville. In 1939, this record was raised to 575 km/h, but Eyston refused further competition, and was soon surpassed by racer John Cobb, who showed results first of 595 and then of 640 km/h.
After World War II, most racers switched to jet engines, which seemed more promising to them. Indeed, on the same dry Lake Bonneville, American Harry Gabelich in 1970 accelerated to a speed of 1014 km/h. Such a car, called Blue Flame, was equipped with a single jet turbine, the thrust of which reached approximately 22 thousand horsepower. In 1979, it was stated that stuntman Stanley Barrett broke the speed of sound, but the driver did not want to make a second run in accordance with the rules for setting records, and the army specialists who took the measurements did not record his achievement in the protocols.
To date, the maximum vehicle speed record belongs to the supersonic vehicle Thrust SSC, which showed a result of 1228 km/h. The corresponding confirmatory record was made in 1997, when the car entered the track in the Black Rock Desert of the United States. The car was equipped with two Rolls-Royce Spey turbofan engines operating in afterburner mode - their total power reached 110 thousand horsepower. British Royal Air Force pilot Andy Green, who holds the title of the fastest driver, was invited especially to drive such an incredible vehicle.
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The creators of the British racing car Bloodhound Supersonic Car plan to test and accelerate the car to a speed of 500 miles (805.7 kilometers) per hour in the fall of 2018. According to the ITV portal, the tests will take place at a race track in South Africa.
The car was created by a company from Bristol and the very first model accelerated to 200 miles (322 kilometers per hour). This happened on a test run at the airport.
The team behind the project have announced that they are aiming for a speed of 500 miles (805.7 kilometers) per hour when they take the car to their proposed race track in South Africa next October.
During the test, the stability of the car will be checked, which at such a speed will depend not on the wheels, but on aerodynamics.
According to the creators, this will be the first step towards a speed of a thousand miles (1609 kilometers) per hour.
Meanwhile, the British already have competitors. Norwegian designers have created a new high-speed car that can accelerate to 1,600 kilometers per hour. During testing, the car accelerated to 210 kilometers per hour in eight seconds. A rocket engine was installed as a motor in the car.
A CAR WITH A SPEED OF UP TO 1600 KM/H WAS RELEASED IN NORWAY
Norwegian designers from the aerospace company Nammo have created a new high-speed car. The car will reach speeds of up to 1600 km/h. This was reported by the Russian Planet website with reference to Techcult.
The fast car was tested on a track near Cornwall. During testing, the car accelerated to 210 km/h in eight seconds.
Under the hood of the new product is the Rolls-Royce EJ200 jet engine.
In 2020, the developers plan to break the world speed record in a race on the bottom of the dry lake Hakskin Pan, which is located in South Africa.
World car speed records
All sorts of car speed records have been set. The interest to conquer the track has probably always been in the blood of racing fans, from the very moment the cars appeared. And many succeeded.
Absolute result
So, before talking about all sorts of car speed records (of which there are many), it’s worth mentioning the most important result. The maximum figure was reached in 1997, on October 15. Then a new, absolute and to this day unconquered speed record for a car was set. 1229.78 km/h - this is exactly the mark on the speedometer that the needle reached. And the conqueror of the track was Andy Green, an Englishman and fighter pilot. The record was set in the Nevada desert. The car, naturally, was not an ordinary one, but a jet one - Thrust SSC.
The route, which was 21 kilometers long, was marked at the bottom of a dry lake located in the Black Rock Desert. Andy's car was powered by two powerful, turbofan power units from a Rolls Royce. Each engine was equipped with forced traction. And the total power of the engines reached an incredible 110,000 horsepower. It is not surprising that Green managed to accelerate to such a mark.
“Pioneers”-record holders
Now you can delve into other topics. So, the first world speed record in a car equipped with an internal combustion engine was set by a person like Emile Levassor. This was in 1985. Then the Paris-Bordeaux race took place. In fact, these were the first speed competitions! And Emil won them. His phrase, which he said after the races, is widely known: “It was crazy! I did up to thirty kilometers per hour!” Of course, at that time, at the end of the 19th century, the indicators were truly stunning. True, Emil also died because of his love of racing. In 1987, during a speed competition, he had an accident - he was trying to avoid a collision with a dog. And soon he died due to his wounds. But his speed record in a car with an internal combustion engine remained forever in history.
The following results were officially recorded. In 1898, a speed of 63.149 km/h was reached. The motorist was Count Gaston de Chasselou-Lobas. He then drove an electric car designed by Charles Jeantot. By the way, this was the first officially registered record.
Distance racing
Already at the end of the 19th century, speed competitions began to be held, in which motorists had to cover a certain distance. Whoever was first won, everything is logical. And the first was the 100-kilometer distance. She was captivated by Camille Genatzi, a Belgian motorist. And it was April 29, 1899. He also drove an electric car that produced 40 horsepower. The maximum he reached was 105.8 km/h.
The next distance was 200 kilometers. It was conquered in 1911. And then the winner was R. Burman. It is not difficult to guess that he drove a car from the Benz company. His maximum car speed record was incredible - 228 km/h! Needless to say, not all modern cars of some brands can produce such a maximum.
300 kilometers was conquered for the first time by H. O. D. Sigrev. This was in 1927. And its maximum stopped at 327.8 km/h. Then, in 1932, there was a 400-kilometer race. Malcolm Campbell managed to win. And its top speed was 408.6 km/h.
The 500-kilometer race in a Rolls-Royce Iceton was won by John Iceton in 1937. He “squeezed” a maximum of 502.4 km/h out of the car. And finally, a thousand kilometers. This distance was overcome by Harry Gabelich in 1970, on October 23. His car was a rocket car called the Blue Flame. The average speed was 1014.3 km/h. Interestingly, the car was 11.3 meters long. The race took place on a dry salt lake called Bonneville.
Sound speed
And once we managed to overcome it. This was first done by a man named Stan Barrett. This is a professional stuntman from America, who was 36 years old at the time of the event. He set a record in a 3-wheeled car. It was called the Budweiser Rocket. The car was powered by jet engines. By the way, there were two of them. The main engine is a liquid propellant engine with a thrust of 9900 kgf. And the second is a solid propellant rocket engine. It had a thrust of 2000 kgf. It was installed in the car in order to use additional power if the main one is not enough to overcome the declared speed.
The race took place at an air base in California in 1979. By the way, when talking about car speed records, one cannot help but note that this one was not registered by the FIA. And all because the rules of the organization state: to record the result, you need to conduct two races in two different directions. This is done to eliminate the slope of the route and the influence of wind. Stan Barrett turned it down. He said the record has already been set.
For a thousand miles
So far, no one has managed to break the 1,000 mph speed limit. This, it is worth clarifying, is 1609 kilometers per hour. But people who work with cars don't lose their enthusiasm. They rightly believe that everything is possible, and this too. The designers of Bloodhound SSC, for example, have a plan to set a new record. Most likely, the car intended for the race will be equipped with three power units. The first will be a hybrid rocket motor. The second will be the Eurojet EJ200 jet unit, which is used on a fighter aircraft called the Eurofighter Typhoon. And the third is a V-shaped engine with 8 cylinders from the Jaguar concern. It will, of course, run on gasoline. But this engine will be used to drive pumps that pump fuel to the rocket motor and activate the onboard electric generator.
Many women have also set car speed records. The best result is 843.3 km/h. It was reached by an American girl named Kitty Hambleton. And she set the record in 1976, in December. The engine power of her car was 48,000 “horses”.
The maximum that racers driving a car with a steam engine could achieve was 223.7 km/h. The car had 12 boilers, where the water was heated by burning natural gas. Every minute, approximately 40 kilograms of water evaporated in the boilers. The power of the installation was approximately 360 hp. With.
What can you say about the speed record for a production car? Naturally, the best in this regard is the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport hypercar. Its indicator is 431.072 kilometers per hour! But this is not the limit. After all, the fastest and most dynamic passenger car designed for road driving was... the Ford Badd GT! He was able to reach 455 km/h. And this is more than the notorious “Bugatti”.
Diesel “record breakers”
Cars whose engines run on diesel fuel are often underestimated. So, all stereotypes are instantly destroyed by JCB Dieselmax. This is the fastest car that consumes diesel fuel, not gasoline. Under the leadership of the same Andy Green, they set a record of 563.418 km/h. This happened in 2006. It is worth recalling that a similar test was carried out in 1973. The result that year was an order of magnitude lower - 379.5 km/h.
The fastest production car running on diesel fuel is a German representative. And this is the BMW 330 TDS. Its maximum is 320 km/h. The unit of this model has 6 cylinders and a volume of three liters. Plus, of course, turbocharging. The engine power is 300 “horses”. And the consumption, by the way, cannot but rejoice - only 8 liters per 100 km.
Other results
The car speed records by year were described above. As you can see, many good results were achieved not even in the 21st century. And indeed, it is so! For example, the Audi S4 released in 1992 is recognized as the fastest sedan in the world. This model is capable of reaching 418 km/h. In any case, this result was recorded during a race on dry Lake Bonneville. Under the hood of this all-wheel drive car was a 5-cylinder turbocharged engine. Its power was increased to 1100 hp. With.
He also set a speed record for a car with wheel drive. It was 737.4 km/h. And finally, we cannot help but mention the speed result that was achieved on a motorized balance beam - 76.625 km/h! This is exactly what the structure, made of cedar logs and car parts, achieved. The record, by the way, is fresh - it was recorded in 2016.
Russian indicators
Naturally, speaking on this topic, one cannot help but note the speed record for a car in Russia. “Ladas” and “Volgas” are produced on the territory of our country - they are still as far from racing cars as possible. But there is still some interesting record in history.
It was installed by people such as Oleg Bogdanov, Vladimir Solovyov and Viktor Panyarsky - the team of the magazine “Behind the wheel”. Men driving a VAZ-2109 crossed the whole of Europe in 45 hours and 30 minutes. The start was in Moscow, on Manezhnaya Square. And the “jet trip” ended in Lisbon, not far from the Belem Tower. The idea to make such a run did not come spontaneously. This was a response to the Portuguese initiative. In 1986, two Portuguese journalists arrived from Lisbon to the Russian capital. They covered the entire route in 51 hours and 30 minutes. Soviet journalists accepted the challenge and, one might say, won the unspoken argument.
And another case happened in 2009. A resident of Samara in his Lada-21099 reached a speed of 277 km/h! The most interesting thing is in a traffic jam, during rush hour, at about nine in the morning! The guy exceeded the speed limit by 217 kilometers. Also a kind of record. Possible, probably, only in Russia.
I would like to comment on the bottom. Of course, thanks to the author for the fact about the interesting achievement of Russian journalists, but the anti-Russian orientation of the paragraph is clearly visible.
But the point, as I see it, is not in the production of Lada and Volga, especially since other cars are now being produced, but in the fact that achieving a speed record is a separate issue. And what is extremely important, it is a very expensive and essentially useless topic. To do this, you need to create a new car, brought to perfection for a specific purpose. I think there are more important tasks in Russia now.
And in the very bottom paragraph, we are apparently talking about incorrect readings from traffic cameras. But the link is not provided.
The problem with all speed records when driving on a surface is that when high speeds are reached, the car no longer behaves like a car, but in many ways like an airplane, and it is not even the power of the engines that comes to the fore, but the aerodynamics of the car.
Well, naturally, you need to choose a perfectly flat and relatively long place for driving and testing, which is the condition that dry salt lakes usually satisfy. It is also worth mentioning the enormous danger of driving such a car. In essence, this is the same aircraft, which, according to the conditions, must touch the surface with its wheels, and in the event of the slightest unevenness, or incorrect action of the driver-pilot, as well as from many unaccounted factors, an accident cannot be ruled out, and at such speeds... let's just say, this is extremely dangerous.
And yet, humanity strives to raise the ceiling of speed records in cars, or rather, in race cars.
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Bluebird Electric speed records
Sir Malcolm Campbell broke the world speed record nine times in various Bluebirds. On the sandy coast of Wales Pendine Sands he set the following records:
- On September 25, 1924, Campbell set a record of 146.16 mph in a Sunbeam car.
- On July 21, 1925, he reached a speed of 242.79 km/h, breaking the 150 mph mark.
Subsequently, Campbell abandoned Sunbeam cars and built cars of his own design.
- At the beginning of 1927, Campbell raised the speed record to 281 km per hour on Pendina Beach (UK).
A year later, Campbell took to the start line with a new “Blue Bird”. There at Daytona he set a record of 333 km/h.
- In 1935, at Lake Bonneville, Utah, he reached a speed of 301.12 mph or 484.620 km/h.
Campbell set his latest record on Utah's famed Bonneville Dry Salt Lake, discovering that the lake's salty surface was not only perfectly smooth, but also provided excellent tire grip. Almost all subsequent speed records were set at Bonneville. After this, the no longer young Campbell (he was 49 years old) left the sport, however, in 1940 he broke the world speed record on water. Campbell's record was 237 km/h.
- His son, Donald, continued the tradition and broke the 400 mph barrier in a Bluebird.
Campbell first took the new BluebirdCN7 car to the start line in 1960 at Bonneville. And one of the races almost ended in disaster: the car flew into the air at full speed, turned over and hit the ground. Contrary to expectations, the driver escaped with light scratches. Having completely rebuilt the Blue Bird and attached a high keel to it for better directional stability, Campbell took it to Australia, to the salty Lake Eyre, deciding that the Bonneville track was no longer suitable for such speeds. As a result, Campbell managed to break the record only in 1964. It was 403 mph (648 km/h). When designing the car, Campbell expected much more. But he must have been happy about this, especially since he was now officially listed as the fastest racer on the planet.
- The current world speed record holder is Don Wales. He set two American national records and eight British records. Wells, following Campbell, continued to set records, the first of which was the speed record for a car in 1998.
- In 2009, he set the current speed record for a steam car at 148 km/h.
- In August 2011, Don Wells set a new record - he crossed the 500 km/h mark.
In total, Bluebird set 27 speed records, 9 of them using Castrol oil.
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