The podcast has now been recorded and will be released on August 24. Simon Taylor will be joining the podcast team to talk about his life in motor sport, his 'Lunch…
Guy Martin and Triumph Motorcycles are to team up for a new motorcycle world land speed record attempt on August 23-24, aiming to break the current record of 376.383mph on the Bonneville salt flats…
On the A303 in Somerset there are quite a few hills. Some are pretty big, which helped my 1992 Fiat Panda cover an entire mile in 48 seconds. Quite impressive,…
The passing of Lord Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu of Beaulieu on August 31 made me think for the first time in many years about the National Motor Museum he founded back in…
Niki Lauda is of the opinion that a 1000bhp-plus Formula 1 car (on durable slicks, nice and wide and big and fat) would resonate with a disillusioned public. He’s probably…
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John Godfrey Parry Thomas, holder of the Land Speed Record for nine months in 1926/7 (and 10 days in 1924), was cut from a very different cloth to his more…
Paris, at shortly after 8 a.m., and the promise of a fine, bright day. The car which was promised had not shown up, so, as the Major and I were…
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Bonneville and the Black Rock Desert; before Daytona Beach or Pendine Sands in Wales, the Land Speed Record belonged to an exclusive turn-of-the-century holiday resort — Ormond Beach, Florida. Ormond…
The day before heading to the Bristol-based launch of Bloodhound SSC’s cockpit the ‘phone rings in the office. “Hi Ed,” says PR man Jules Tipler, “we’re thinking of doing something…
If the BBC was to make a situation comedy based on the activities of Mr Richard Noble it would surely be called Absolutely Fantastic, or 'Ab Fan'. In Noble's world…
Taken from the September 1997 issue of Motor Sport On July 17 1937, during practice for the German Grand Prix, Bernd Rosemeyer fought his wayward Auto Union around the Nürburgring…
"We deployed the parachute at 600mph and immediately you had 6g deceleration," Thrust2 driver Richard Noble tells us. "The weird thing about this extreme deceleration is that it upsets your…
Having been far from these climes for the last three weeks, it’s entirely possible you have known for longer than me that a temporary export bar has been placed upon…
Pick one highlight from your entire year and condense it into one 450-word piece? Now that I’ve sat down to write this I am starting to appreciate the task I…
Today, the hybrid rocket engine specially developed for the Bloodhound SSC land speed record project will fire for the first time. The project is headed by Richard Noble, who broke…
Eighty-five years ago today, March 29, 1927, Major Henry Segrave became the first man to exceed 200mph on land. Aboard his 1000bhp Sunbeam ‘Mystery S’, Segrave roared through the measured…
