Fastest cars

Cars Speed ​​records

The highest speed in the world - 1229.88 km / h on a land vehicle - a Thrust SSC jet car - was shown by the Englishman Andy Green on October 15, 1997. And the average speed for two runs was 1226.522 km / h. Green's crew was set in motion by two Rolls-Royce jet engines with a total capacity of 110 thousand liters. from.

The highest speed a woman has developed in a car is 843.323 km / h. It was shown in December 1976 by an American Kitty Humbleton in a three-wheeled car S.M. 48 thousand motivator. l c. By the sum of two arrivals in two directions, her official record is 825.126 km / h.

The British speed car Keating TKR with a 7-liter engine with a capacity of 1,500 liters set a world speed record. from. - the car accelerated to 416 km / h. In 2010, the Bugatti Veyron again occupied the niche of the fastest production car, creating the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport, increasing power to 1200 forces. In the Top Gear, James May accelerated to more than 407 km / h on the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport. A test pilot Bugatti showed an average speed of 431 km / h, driving in one direction at a speed of 427 km / h and 434 km / h in the opposite.

The first speed record for a car with an internal combustion engine (up to 30 km / h) belongs to Emil Levassor, put in the Paris-Bordeaux-Paris race in 1895.

The first officially registered absolute speed record - 63.149 km / h - was established on December 18, 1898 by Count Gaston de Chaslu-Loba on an electric car designed by Charles Gento at a distance of 1 km [1].

On April 29, 1899, the Belgian Camille Zhenatzi, who was on the electric car La Jamais Contente (from French - “Always Displeased”) with an engine power of 67 liters, was the first to cross the 100-kilometer line. from. It developed a speed of 105.876 km / h.

The 200-kilometer speed limit was reached in 1911 by racer R. Boorman. On a Benz car, he showed 228.04 km / h.

The 300-kilometer milestone was first reached by Henry Seagrave in 1927. It showed 327.89 km / h in the Sunbim car.

The 400-km speed limit was first “crossed” by Malcolm Campbell in a Nepir-Campbell car in 1932 (408.63 km / h).

The 500-kilometer speed limit was overcome in 1937 by John Ayston in a Rolls-Royce-Ayston car (502.43 km / h).

The 1000-kilometer speed limit was first overcome on October 23, 1970 by an American Harry Gabelich on a Blue Flame rocket car on the dried salt lake Bonneville, showing an average speed of 1014.3 km / h. The Blue Flame had a length of 11.3 m and a weight of 2250 kg.

For the first time the fastest cars, the 36-year-old professional American stuntman Stan Barrett overcame the speed of sound on a car with a three-wheeled Budweiser Rocket jet engine. 2 engines were installed on the car. The main engine is a liquid propellant rocket engine with a thrust of 9900 kgf. The second engine, a solid propellant solid propellant 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 the 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, to register a record, it is necessary to make two arrivals in opposite directions to exclude the influence of wind and the slope of the track. The record speed is the arithmetic average of the speed in these two races. However, Stan Barrett refused the second race, believing that the record was set. However, since the radar used to measure speed turned out to be out of sync and aimed at the car manually, the achievement of supersonic record speed in that race by many historians of record automobile rides is generally questioned, in particular, it is not in the official report of the US armed forces written by officers driving the radar during check-in.

The line of speed 1609 km / h plan to overcome the designers of the car Bloodhound SSC. The car will be equipped with three engines: a hybrid rocket engine, a Eurojet EJ200 jet engine, used on an Eurofighter Typhoon fighter aircraft, and a Jaguar 8-cylinder V-shaped gasoline engine, used to drive pumps that pump fuel to the rocket engine and drive an onboard electric generator.