Maserati Breaks World Land Speed Record For Autonomously Driven Cars. Researchers from the Politecnico di Milano university have broken the world speed record for an autonomously driven car. They ...

Since 2010, the land speed record for a motorcycle officially clocked in at 376.363 miles per hour. That decimal is important because, at these speeds, the record is won and lost in the margins.

Up until 1935, world land speed records were mostly set on beaches or in deserts until Bonneville Salt Flats in the USA became the venue of choice. Stretching over 30,000 acres near the Utah ...

It wasn’t until he hit 37 mph (and after a few drinks at the pub) that the idea of a world record emerged. “So it was just a case of finding out that the record existed,” Phillips said.

The previous record of 102.65 mph (165.2 kph) was set by a Porsche Taycan in 2021 inside the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Formula E says the GenBeta car has a number of upgrades to make it faster and more powerful than the Gen3 car used in race events. First, it has an enhanced power output of 400kW, up from 350kW in ...

EXCLUSIVE: Doug Herbert and George Poteet are two land speed racers who are competing to see who can next break the existing record and they’re now set to be the subjects of a new docuseries ...

Craig Breedlove, who set land-speed records by topping 400, 500 and 600 mph in jet-powered cars nicknamed Spirit of America, has died. He was 86. Breedlove died at his home in Rio Vista, Calif ...

Craig Breedlove, who set land-speed records at the Bonneville Salt Flats by topping 400, 500 and 600 mph in jet-powered cars nicknamed Spirit of America, has died.

Most notable of her time was Kitty O’Neil, a prominent stunt woman, desert racer, and water speed record holder who surfaced to engrave her name on Oregon’s Alvord Desert. In 1976 O’Neil drove a ...

Speed records build a fraternity, a very small fraternity. Jenkins began his quest during his college years in the UK, when he was handed someone’s broken dream: an abandoned record-attempt vehicle.

The current wind-powered land speed is 126.1 mph (202.9 km/h), set in 2009. Earlier this week, Team New Zealand officially unveiled its land speed record challenger, the Horonuku.