The first officially registered absolute record speed - 63.149 km / h - was established on December 18, 1898 by Count Gaston de Chaslus-Loba on an electric car designed by Charles Jeantot at a distance of 1 km.
On April 29, 1899, the Belgian Camille Zhenatzi was the first to cross the 100-kilometer milestone. developed a speed of 105.876 km / h.
The 200-kilometer speed limit was reached in 1911 by the 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. On a Sunbeam car, he showed 327.89 km / h.
The 400-kilometer speed limit was first “stepped over” by Malcolm Campbell in a Napier-Campbell car in 1932 (408.63 km / h).
The 500-kilometer speed limit was overcome in 1937 by John Aiston in a Rolls-Royce-Aiston car (502.43 km / h).
On October 23, 1970, the American Garry Gabelich crossed the 1000-kilometer speed limit for the first time on the Blue Flame rocket car on the dry salt lake of Bonneville, showing an average speed of 1014.3 km / h. "Blue Flame" had a length of 11.3 m and a weight of 2250 kg.
The most high speed in the world - 1229.78 km / h on the ground vehicle - jet car(Thrust SSC) was shown by Englishman Andy Green on October 15, 1997. average speed on two races was 1226.522 km/h. The 21-kilometer track was marked at the bottom of a dried-up lake in the state of Nevada (USA). Green's crew was propelled by two turbojet engines"Rolls-Royce - Spey" with a total capacity of 110 thousand horsepower.
The highest speed that has developed on car woman, is equal to 843.323 km / h. It was shown in December 1976 by an American Kitty Humbleton on a three-wheeled car S.M. Motivator, with a capacity of 48 thousand. l.c. in the Alvard Desert, Oregon, USA. In the sum of two races in two directions, her official record is 825.126 km / h.
The highest speed for a steam car was achieved in August 2009 by a car designed by a group of British engineers. The average maximum 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). steam car equipped with 12 boilers in which water is heated by combustion natural gas. From the boilers, steam under pressure, at a speed twice the speed of sound, is fed into the turbine. About 40 liters of water are evaporated in the boilers per minute. general power power plant is 360 horsepower.
The fastest mass-produced passenger car is Bugatti Veyron Super sport. On July 4, 2010, on the Volkswagen test track, pilot Pierre Henri Rafanel reached a speed of 427.933 km/h in the first run in one direction, and in the second run in the opposite direction, the car accelerated to 434.211 km/h. The result stunned even the creators of the car, who counted on an approximate maximum speed of 425 km / h. The races were attended by a representative of the German Technical Inspection Agency of Germany and representatives of the Guinness Book of Records, who recorded a new maximum speed record of 431.072 km / h (268 miles), which is the average between two attempts. According to official data from the manufacturer, it accelerates to 100 km/h in 2.5 seconds, 200 km/h in 6.7 seconds, 300 km/h in 14.6 seconds, and 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. The maximum possible power is 1200 hp. at 6000 rpm.
Most fast car working on diesel fuel- Mercedes-Benz C111-III with an engine displacement of 3 liters and a power of 230 hp. During tests on the Nardo track in southern Italy, October 5-15, 1978, he reached a speed of 327.3 km / h.
The fastest serial diesel a car- BMW 325tds has a top speed of 214 km/h. It is equipped with a 2.5 liter turbocharged 6-cylinder diesel engine. Engine power - 143 hp Average consumption fuel 6.5 liters per 100 km.
Speed record for a car with wheel drive: 737.395 km / h. Modern record crews are equipped with 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 able to hit 1,000 mph (1,609 km/h) should be the Bloodhound SSC. The car will be equipped with three engines: a hybrid rocket engine, jet engine Eurojet EJ200, mounted on the Eurofighter Typhoon, and 800-horsepower 12-cylinder V-twin Gas engine, pumping fuel and providing electrical and hydraulic power to the aircraft and rocket. On July 19, 2010, at the Farnborough International Air Show, which opened on the outskirts of London, a full-size layout of the Bloodhound SSC was presented. If all goes as planned, the Bloodhound SSC will set a new world land speed record (for manned crews) in 2011.
Modern racing is a risky thing, but still largely predictable: tracks are prepared, painted technical regulation, accumulated cherished experience. In this list - racers of a different kind. Those who literally rushed through life at breakneck speed and, burning with a passion for cars, proved time after time that there are no limits to speed.
1895 - Emile Levassor and the crazy 30 km/h
The French engineer, industrialist and racing driver owns the first recorded speed record in history. The achievement is not officially registered, which, however, in no way detracts from its role in overcoming speed limits.The first cars in the 19th century were not looked at as transport at all. So, “walk” with a young lady, impress the public ... Actually, they were designed as horse-drawn carts without a horse - the engine was placed under the seats. But in order to develop a decent speed, the motor must be cooled. Levassor was the first to think of bringing it forward - to our usual place under the hood.
It was on such a car (double Panhard-Levassor) in June 1895 that the Frenchman won the race along the route Paris-Bordeaux-Paris (1200 km), ahead of the other 46 participants. It took him 48 hours and 47 minutes to cover the distance, and the average speed was ... 24.4 km / h. Well, not Formula 1. But for the beginning of the era of cars, it was unimaginable. Levassor is said to have finished the race saying, “That was crazy! I did up to 50 km/h!”
1898-99 Disgruntled electric cars and double record
ahead of the surge of interest in sustainable transport for more than a hundred years, then to give way to engines internal combustion, electric vehicles, however, left a noticeable mark in the history of the struggle for speed. A real duel between two such specimens and their pilots - Count Gaston de Chasselus-Loba and Camille Zhenatzi - began in 1898 and led to a whole series of record achievements. The first, an aristocrat and descendant of a Napoleonic general, set the official speed record this year - 63.149 km / h. The second, an engineer and son of a rubber tire manufacturer, decided to challenge him. From January to April 1899, both drove like crazy, in turn surpassing the achievements of the saline. The dots on i were placed on April 29th. Zhenatzi driving an electric car of his own design (pseudo-streamlined aluminum alloy torpedo body, two direct drive electric motors with a total power of 67 hp) under the name La Jamais Contente (French for “Eternally dissatisfied”) for the first time in history overcame the milestone of 100 km / h (fixed speed - 105.876 km / h). His record stood for over three years.
1924-2009 Campbell Dynasty Bird of Fortune
Notice the dates in the title. No, it's not that Sir Malcolm Campbell and his descendants "harnessed for a long time." For more than 80 years, the restless representatives of this family have been breaking speed records on land and water.
Since 1924, the founder of the dynasty, English journalist and racing driver Malcolm Campbell has consistently set several world speed records. But his finest hour came in 1935 on the dry salt lake of Bonneville, where he brought a car of his own design under the happy name Bluebird (“Blue Bird”) and simultaneously overcame significant milestones in two measurement systems - 480 km / h or more than 300 miles / h .
His son Donald initially chose the water element, where in 1955 he set two world records at once. But being the first on water and land at the same time is much cooler. In 1960, Donald designs a new "Blue Bird" - jet-powered. Engine - gas turbine aircraft "Proteus" with a capacity of 4250 hp, four-wheel drive, 4.3 tons weight and powerful disc brakes(where without them on such a colossus). And although the first race on the same Bonneville almost ended in disaster, on July 17, 1964, Donald tries again on Lake Eyre in Australia. It accelerates to 648 km / h, that is, it jumps over 400 mph - and becomes a “double” record holder.
Donald Campbell died at the same exorbitant speed at which he lived. On January 4, 1967, during an attempt to break another “water” record, his Bluebird K-7 jet boat, turning over at a speed of 482 km / h, crashed into the water. Only 34 years later, in 2001, the remains of Donald and his "Bird" were raised from the bottom. His grave is now on the shore of the same lake.
But the family spirit is quite alive. Donald's son, Don Wales, is no stranger to family passion. In 2009, he set the current speed record on... a steam car! 238.68 km/h! What is even more interesting, Don, while you are reading these lines, is somewhere presenting two electric vehicles developed in the bowels of Bluebird Performance Engineering, a division of the company founded by his grandfather. One of them is a racing car designed specifically for participation in Formula E (there is also such an “electric” series), on which Don is going to accelerate to 500 mph (805 km/h) and set a new record.
1938 Invincible Karach
It is somehow not customary for us to talk about the achievements made in Germany during the Third Reich. As if someone's perseverance, ingenuity and sincere sports joy can whitewash this dark period of history.
Nevertheless, in 1938, the German racer Rudolf Caracciola, who later received the nickname “Karach” from the public, set a speed record for a car that has not yet been beaten by anyone. His Mercedes-Benz W125, rebuilt from racing car(an aerodynamic body was added that covered the wheels), accelerated to 432.7 km / h. The point here was not the figure itself - three years earlier, Malcolm Campbell on the Blue Bird drove faster. But while the British and Americans were testing "supercars" for durability and power in the middle of dry lakes, Karach squeezed out everything possible on the road. common use- Autobahn Frankfurt-Darmstadt. Nobody has done this before or since.
1979 or 1997 Stan Barrett and Andy Green: Twice in the Same River
A curious story came out with overcoming the supersonic barrier by car. And the whole problem is that the record is not only the perfection of technology and a reserve of courage, but also a banal "office". It is not enough to install it, it is also necessary to fix it.
With this, there was a problem with the American stuntman Stan Barrett, who in 1979 at the bottom of a salt lake near Edwards Air Force Base in California accelerated to 1123 km / h. The speed of his three-wheeled Budweiser Rocket with two jet engines (liquid rocket powered by a mixture of oxygen and kerosene, plus solid propellant from an air-to-air missile) was recorded by airborne equipment and US Air Force radar. However, the race was not made according to the rules of the FIA. On them, in order to register the speed, you need to make two runs along the track - there and back - in case the direction of the wind or the slope of the surface could affect the result. Barret went only one way. In addition, it turned out that the radar was configured incorrectly. In fact, few people doubt that the stuntman really accelerated faster than sound, but the formal requirements do not allow him to be considered a record holder.
For some unknown reason, it took another 18 years to do everything as it should be. But in the end, on October 15, 1997, Englishman Andy Green on a 21-kilometer track in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada not only officially broke the supersonic barrier, but also set a current speed record for ground vehicles. His car (if this wingless plane can still be called a car) accelerated to 1226.522 km / h. Two Rolls-Royce Spey turbojet engines with a total power of 110,000 hp helped him in this. Thrust SSC (Thrust SuperSonic Sag - traction supersonic car) - this is the name of the record-breaking car, it reached this speed in just 50 seconds, becoming the most fast car in history. But, as we have already understood, for those who are overcome by the thirst for speed, this is not the limit.
Since the invention of the internal combustion engine, automobile and motorcycle speed records have gone almost toe to toe. At first, cars were ahead of motorcycles, for objective reasons - the motorcycle was invented for several years later car. And the problem of stabilization at high speeds is easier to deal with when there are four wheels, not two. However, as in the mentioned article about motorcycle world speed records, we will consider automobile records starting from a speed of 300 km. per hour, since it is in this area that the maximum speed of modern mass-produced sports cars is kept.
The very first speed record for a car was set back in the 19th century, and this record belonged to ... an electric car! In 1898, the French race car driver Gaston de Chasselou-Loba reached 63.5 km. per hour in Asher, France. Then, over the years, the site for setting speed records moved to the dried-up salt lake Bonneville, USA, Utah, and is still so.
However, with areas sufficient for acceleration and deceleration of the fastest cars in the world, not everything is so simple. In the first half of the 20th century, records were set in Great Britain, on an ordinary beach in Pendine. Then, in 1927 (!) when the speed exceeded the threshold of 300 km. per hour (!!), the length of the distance at which the speed is measured had to be reduced from one mile to one kilometer (!!!), and there was not enough space on the British Beach. The future champions had to move to Florida, to Daytona Beach. And soon to the Bonneville salt lake.
March 29, 1927. The world speed record for a car is 327.97 km per hour.
The record was set by Henry O'Neill Seagrave in a Sunbeam 1000. The 1,000 horsepower in this car was provided by two twelve-cylinder aircraft engines with a total displacement of 22.4 liters.
February 19, 1927. The world speed record for a car is 333.048 km. at one o'clock.
It is worth noting that until 1963, all speed records were set by the British. And, they are the same. This time the record was set by Malcolm Campbell in a Blue Bird car with a 23.9-liter aircraft engine from a Gloucester biplane.
April 22, 1928. The world speed record for a car is 334.007 km per hour.
It was first delivered by the American Ray Keach on an even crazier design, consisting of three 27-liter aviation twelve-cylinder V-engines called Triplex Special.
Tragedy is associated with this world speed record. The fact is that the first Triplex Special was still too “raw” for the world speed record, and Keech refused to drive.
Then Lee Bible was hired, a talented mechanic, however, who had no experience in driving a car at such speeds. While setting the record, Lee Bible's car went off the track into the dunes and overturned several times. Bible flew out of the car at 60 meters and died. Photographer Charles Traub also died in this incident.
Keach set the record already on the next car, modified after the accident.
March 11, 1929. The world speed record for a car is 372.459.
Again Henry Segrave, who, after setting this record, neither more nor less, was knighted!
Again, a W12 aircraft engine with a displacement of 23.9 liters was used, which produced 925 horsepower. In order to prevent the car from taking off at such a speed, the design of the front of the cockpit was copied from the Supermarine S.5 aircraft, and at the rear there was a 120 kg ballast. For that time, this car was also notable for the fact that it had brakes on all four wheels and a three-speed gearbox with two cardan shafts.
More than 120,000 spectators gathered on the beach in Daytona Beach to watch this record.
February 5, 1929. World speed record by car 396.025 km. at one o'clock.
Again, Malcolm Campbell, also knighted after breaking the 400 km/h speed mark. The record was set on the Blue Bird Car.
This car in its original version, like all the previous ones, had an aircraft engine with a working volume of 23.9 liters, which produced 1450 horsepower. Its further evolution consisted in replacing engines with more efficient ones. All engines were equipped with superchargers, and by 1935 the displacement had increased to 36.7 liters. In total, 5 world speed records were set on this car, and in a row.
September 3, 1935 - 484.598 km / h.- the first world record for cars set on Lake Bonneville.
November 19, 1937. World speed record by car 501.16 km. at one o'clock. August 27, 1938. World speed record by car 556.012 km. at one o'clock.
Both world records were set by George Aiston in a Thunderbolt car powered by two Rolls-Royce V-12 aircraft engines and three pairs of wheels.
This chthonic monster has held three world speed records, including September 16, 1938, when the speed of 575.314 km / h was reached.
September 15, 1938. World speed record by car 563.566 km. at one o'clock. August 23, 1939. World speed record by car 595.04 km. at one o'clock.
Just before the outbreak of World War II, three speed records were set by car, all three by John Cobb in the Railton Special.
This car looked exotic even for a streamlaner. Against the backdrop of the monstrous Thunderbolt, it stood out with its graceful forms, streamlining, and in general, it first of all looked like a flying saucer of aliens than a car.
The technical stuffing, however, has not changed much. Two aircraft engine W-12 Napier 23.9 liters each, with superchargers.
The last speed record set by Cobb on this car was 634.397 km / h, it happened on September 15, 1947 almost immediately after the war.
Until 1963, this record was held, because to overcome it, a fundamentally new approach to design was required. record cars.
July 17, 1964 World speed record by car 644.96 km. at one o'clock.
In 1964 there was a technological breakthrough. The new world record was set for the first time in a car without classic engine internal combustion engine, and was delivered to Lake Eyre in South Australia by Briton Donald Campbell on a Bluebird-Proteus CN7 turboprop.
The classic idea of the power of cars, measured, in a philistine sense, in horsepower, didn't work anymore. The turbine gave a power of the order of 3,320 kW.
Since 1964, thanks to this car, all speed records have been divided into two parallel branches: cars with turbines (essentially rockets on wheels) and more or less classic designs, with piston engines internal combustion.
August 5, 1963 The world speed record for a jet car is 655.722 km. at one o'clock.
As we can see, this world record was set by Craig Breedlove on the three-wheeled "Spirit Of America" a year earlier than the previous one. The fact is that Craig's car had only three wheels, and the FIA could not count the set record in 1963. Then, after solving the formal side of the issue, the record was still counted.
Like many other record-breaking cars, the Spirit of America set three world speed records and was significantly redesigned constructively from record to record. Already in its second performance, it had 4 wheels, not 3.
October 2, 1964 World speed record for a jet car 665.0 km. at one o'clock.
The record belongs to American Tom Green on the Wingfoot Express. It was a difficult record for real enthusiasts who managed to shine in a row of terribly expensive high-tech devices. The cost of the Wingfoot was only $78,000, while the already mentioned "Blue Bird" was $2,000,000.
October 5, 1964 World speed record for a jet car 698.50 km. at one o'clock.
It was staged by Art Arfons on the Green Monster.
In fact, the "Green Monster" was almost entirely red.
October 23, 1970 The world speed record for a jet car is 1014.656 km. at one o'clock.
This is the most interesting speed record. It was delivered by the American Gary Gabelich on the Blue Flame rocket car. It must be understood that all other record cars were airplanes on wheels, but not rockets. The Blue Fire has so far become the only record-breaking rocket car in history.
October 4, 1983 The world speed record for a jet car is 1020.406 km. at one o'clock.
Britain's Richard Noble's world record, starting with a budget of £175, set in a Thrust2 jet car.
This record-breaking car was built on the basis of a Rolls-Royce Avon turbine and would have been quite suitable for the role of the Batmobile.
The car was built around a single turbine, the cockpit was located not in the middle, but on the side, and this makes it similar to Art Arfons' "Green Monster".
This speed record was not broken until 1997, when another similar car of the same developers, Richard Noble and John Ackroyd, took the first place.
September 25, 1997. The world speed record for a jet car is 1149.055 km. at one o'clock. October 15, 1997. The world speed record for a jet car is 1223.657 km. at one o'clock.
Both world records were set by Britain's Andy Green in a Thrust SSC powered by two Rolls-Royce Spey turbines.
The highest speed in the world in a car and on any ground managed vehicle - 1227,986 km / h - was shown on a Thrust SSC jet car by the Englishman Andy Green on October 15, 1997. The 21-kilometer track was marked at the bottom of a dry lake in the Black Rock desert, Nevada, USA. Green's car was powered by two Rolls-Royce Spey turbofan engines with boosted thrust, with a total output of 110,000 hp. With.
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Sir Malcolm Campbell broke the world speed record nine times various cars Bluebird - Blue bird. 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 line of 150 miles / h.
In the future, Campbell abandoned Sunbeam cars and built cars of his own design.
- In early 1927, Campbell on Pendina Beach (Great Britain) raised the speed record to 281 km / h.
A year later, Campbell went to the start with the new Blue Bird. There, in 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's latest record was set on Utah's famed Bonneville Salt Lake, discovering that the lake's salty surface was not only perfectly flat, but also provided excellent tire grip. Almost all subsequent speed records were set on Bonneville. After that, the already middle-aged 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.
Donald Campbell first appeared on new car Bluebird CN7 at launch in 1960 at Bonneville. And one of the races almost ended in disaster: the car flew into the air at full speed, rolled over and hit the ground. Contrary to expectations, the rider escaped with light scratches. Having completely rebuilt the Bluebird and attached a high keel to it for better exchange rate stability, Donald took her to Australia, to the salt lake Eyre, deciding that the Bonneville track was no longer suitable for such speeds. As a result, Donald managed to break the record only in 1964. It was 403 mph (648 km/h). When designing the machine, Donald Campbell counted on much more. But he must have been happy about this, especially since then he was officially listed as the fastest racer on the planet.
- Don Wales, son of Donald Campbell and grandson of Sir Malcolm Campbell, is now the holder of one of the world speed records. He set two American national records and eight UK records. Wales, following Donald Campbell, continued to set records, the first of which was the speed record for a car in 1998.
- In 2009, Don Wales set the current steam car speed record at 238.68 km/h (148.31 mph).
In total, 27 speed records were set on Bluebird cars.
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- The fastest speed in the world on a motorcycle- 605.697 km / h - reached on September 25, 2010 by American Rocky Robinson at the Bonneville salt lake.
- The fastest speeds in the world on a bike- 334.6, 222.2 and 133.8 km / h - achieved respectively on October 15, 1995, April 21, 2000 and September 14, 2013 in the so-called. racing for the leader car (which took on the bulk of the aerodynamic drag and created a rarefied zone for the cyclist to unhook from the leader at a speed of 160 km / h), with a free descent and on a flat surface without a leader.
Car speed recordsJCB Dieselmax is the fastest diesel car on display at the Heritage Motor Center
This term has other meanings, see Speed Records.
The first speed record for a car with an internal combustion engine belongs to Emile Levassor, set in the Paris-Bordeaux-Paris race in 1895.
The first officially registered absolute speed record - 63.149 km / h - was set on December 18, 1898 by Count Gaston de Chaslus-Loba on an electric car designed by Charles Jeantot at a distance of 1 km.
On April 29, 1899, the Belgian Camille Zhenatzi was the first to cross the 100-kilometer milestone. developed a speed of 105.876 km / h.
The 200-kilometer speed limit was reached in 1911 by the racer R. Burman. On a Benz car, he showed 228.04 km / h.
The 300-kilometer speed was first achieved by H. O. D. Sigrev in 1927. In a Sunbeam car, he showed 327.89 km / h.
The 400-kilometer speed limit was first “stepped over” by Malcolm Campbell in a Napier-Campbell car in 1932 (408.63 km / h).
The 500-kilometer speed limit was overcome in 1937 by John Aiston in a Rolls-Royce-Aiston car (502.43 km / h).
On October 23, 1970, the American Garry Gabelich crossed the 1000-kilometer speed limit for the first time on the Blue Flame rocket car on the dried-up Bonneville salt lake, showing an average speed of 1014.3 km / h. "Blue Flame" had a length of 11.3 m and a weight of 2250 kg.
For the first time, the speed of sound in a car was overcome by 36-year-old professional American stuntman Stan Barrett on a three-wheeled Budweiser Rokit car with jet engines. The car was equipped with 2 engines. The main engine is a rocket engine with a thrust of 9900 kgf. The second engine, a solid propellant rocket engine with a thrust of 2000 kgf, was installed in case the thrust of the main engine was not enough to overcome the speed of sound. The race took place at Edwards Air Force Base (California, USA) in December 1979. But this record was not officially registered by the FIA, since according to the rules of this organization, in order to register a record, two runs in opposite directions must be made to eliminate the influence of wind and the inclination of the track. The record speed is the arithmetic average of the speeds in these two races. However, Stan Barret refused the second race, believing that the record had been set. However, since the radar with which the speed was measured turned out to be out of sync and was aimed at the car manually, the achievement of a supersonic record speed in that race is generally questioned by many historians of record car races, in particular, it is absent in the official report of the US armed forces, written by officers who controlled the radar during the race.Thrust 2 SSC
The highest speed in the world - 1229.78 km / h on a ground controlled vehicle - a jet car (Thrust SSC) was shown by the Englishman Andy Green on October 15, 1997. The average speed for two races was 1226.522 km / h. The 21-kilometer path was marked at the bottom of the dried-up Black Rock Lake in the state of Nevada (USA). Green's crew was powered by two Rolls-Royce-Spey turbojet engines with a total capacity of 110,000 horsepower.
The fastest speed ever driven by a woman, is equal to 843.323 km / h. It was reached in December 1976 by the American Kitty Humbleton (known by her maiden name as Kitty O'Neill) on a three-wheeled SMI Motivator with a capacity of 48 thousand horsepower. l. c. in the Alvard Desert, Oregon, USA. Based on the average of two runs in both directions, her official record is 825.126 km/h.
The highest speed for a steam-powered car was achieved in August 2009 with a car designed by a group of British engineers. The average maximum speed of the new car in two races was 139.843 miles per hour, or 223.748 km/h. In the first run, the car reached a speed of 136.103 miles per hour (217.7 km/h), and in the second - 151.085 miles per hour (241.7 km/h). The steam car was equipped with 12 boilers, in which water was heated by burning natural gas. From the boilers, steam under pressure, flowing from the Laval nozzle, at a speed twice the speed of sound, was fed into steam turbine. About 40 kg of water evaporated in the boilers every minute. The total power of the power plant was about 360 horsepower.
The fastest mass-produced passenger car is the Bugatti Veyron Super sport. S.S.C. Tuatara - Max speed car 443 km/h (theoretical)
The fastest road car is the Ford Badd GT. The speed reached by him is 455 km / h.
The fastest diesel car- JCB Dieselmax. On August 23, 2006, on the surface of the dry Lake Bonneville (Bonneville), a prototype driven by racer Andy Green (Andy Green) set a new world speed record for diesel cars - 563.418 km / h. The previous record was set in 1973 and was 379.4 km/h.
The fastest mass-produced diesel passenger car- BMW 330 TDS has a top speed of 320 km/h. It is equipped with a 6-cylinder 3-litre turbocharged diesel engine. Engine power - 300 l. With. Average fuel consumption - 8 liters per 100 km.
The fastest sedan is a 1992 Audi S4, which, driven by American Jeff Gerner, reached a speed of 260 miles per hour (about 418 kilometers per hour) during races on the dry salt lake Bonneville in Utah, USA. This four-wheel drive car was equipped with a five-cylinder turbocharged engine boosted to 1100 horsepower.
Speed record for a wheel-drive car: 737.395 km/h Modern speed record cars have turbojet or rocket engines; in the class of record cars with wheel drive, the engine must turn the wheels, the use of jet propulsion is unacceptable. The record was set on October 18, 2001 by Don Vesco in a Turbinator car on Lake Bonneville.
The speed limit of 1,000 miles / h (1,609 km / h) has not yet been overcome by any car. The designers of the Bloodhound SSC have plans to set a new record. The car will be equipped with three engines: a hybrid rocket engine, a Eurojet EJ200 jet engine used in the Eurofighter Typhoon fighter aircraft, and an 800 hp 12-cylinder V-twin gasoline engine. s., used to drive pumps that pump fuel to the rocket engine and drive the onboard electric generator.
