Timing a land speed record. Details matter.

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Details matter.

If you want a Land Speed Record, get someone official to time you and make sure you play by their rules. Donald Campbell’s 1964 403.10mph, detailed on page 114, was timed by FIA ratified stewards. But it had already been surpassed by Craig Breedlove’s Spirit of America at 407.45mph – only that was a jet-powered tricycle, which the FIA didn’t count. America did though, so for a while Breedlove was the fastest man in the world in the US, and Campbell the fastest man in the world everywhere else…