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British engineering giant JCB is targeting a new land speed record with a 32-foot car powered by its own hydrogen engines.

Craig Breedlove, legendary land-speed racer and the first person to break the 600-mile-per-hour mark in a car, has died at the age of 86, according to the Southern California Timing Association.

A racing car famous for breaking the land speed record has returned to Carmarthenshire to mark its centenary. The car, known as Babs, set a world record on the sands of Pendine 100 years ago with ...

Staffordshire engineering giant JCB is targeting a new land speed record with a 32-foot car powered by its own hydrogen engines.

A driver going 283 mph trying to set a land speed record during a racing event at Utah’s famed Bonneville Salt Flats died Sunday after he lost control of his rocket-like vehicle called the Speed Demon ...

Wing Cdr Andy Green said it was a great experience to follow in Sir Henry Segrave's footsteps after exactly 100 years A car which set the world land speed record in 1926 has completed the same course ...

Aaron Brown has spent years in stock-car racing, but his passion has shifted from ovals to long, straight lines. After starting his career building cars that raced in NASCAR's Cup series, Brown opened ...

Record-setting Bonneville race cars are generally of the sleek, built-for-speed variety, so why not tow it on a matching trailer? And one such custom-built hauler is up for sale on Facebook. Simple in ...

A racing driver was killed as he attempted to break a land speed world record on Sunday, after he lost control of his vehicle at speeds approaching 300 mph. Chris Raschke, who was 60, was ...

A driver going 283 mph trying to set a land speed record during a racing event at Utah’s famed Bonneville Salt Flats died Sunday after he lost control of his rocket-like vehicle called the Speed Demon ...