Nobody had tried to push the Land Speed Record over 200mph—let alone with a four-ton, 23-foot 6-inch car powered by engines displacing nearly 45 liters. Everything, from the coupling shaft to the ...

Chris Raschke of the Speed Demon Racing Team died Sunday while attempting to break a land speed record at the annual Bonneville Salt Flats Speed Week in Utah. Reports claim the veteran racer lost ...

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 ...

A 60-year-old veteran speed racer has died after his vehicle flew out of control while trying to set a new record on the salt flats of Utah. Chris Raschke of Ventura, California, was hoping to make ...

Walt Arfons, always the devoted Goodyear man, standing on the salt in 1965. Art Arfons in 1964 on the Bonne­ville Salt Flats, where he set a land speed record of 536.71 mph. Walt Arfons never smiled.

You might wonder how it is that Richard Noble OBE, entrepreneur and holder of the land speed record (LSR) between 1983 and 1997, is now, at the age of 79, considering a tilt at inspiring the fastest ...

Dennis Zainfeld's Smart car in the driveway offers little clue. At 8 feet long, it's a fraction of the beast inside that is his real baby: a 28-foot-long aluminum splinter that Zainfeld believes will ...

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 ...