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This man is trying to break 1,000 miles per hour on land. His name is Rosco McGlashan, and he has so much passion and grit for motorsport and engineering, that I think he might just do it.
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How did you miss to say that the first car to reach 100km/h (la jamais contente "never satisfied") in the 19th century was actually electric. Why not use titanium wheels? And cherry on top, the prompter takes a lot off the passion from the subject. Sorry team, I love the channel and this seems a bit overlooked to be honest. This could be done in a several episode series
First ever land speed record recorded in 1989 huh? Misspeaking within 40seconds of the video starting, very hard to take you seriously. Also ironic you're trying to advertise speaking new languages.
He advertise speaking a new language? When and where please? @@zl6924
Why not start with translating your units first?
As a European I understand your comment but they focus on their viewers rather than being correct for the 95% rest of the world. Someday, for the sake of adopting English as a universal language, they might adopt the metric system the imperial system is based on.@@cxgamer9680
Oops... 1898 not 1989!
i guess we have to break a speed record now
And the first car was in 1885, with the patent being assigned in 1886, so that was incorrect too :/
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Oops....not opps! 😂
All the Taylor Swift fans appreciate the shoutout.
Can't believe you managed to get so much information about the development of the Red Bull RB20.
testing rn is telling us ferrari has the RB20
@@domi4307 carlos sainz really trying to show ferrari they messed up
@@domi4307 don't do that. Don't give them hope.
Wirh l as much else is wrong i wouldnt be surprised if most of that shit was wrong as well.
@@KarstRats I guess wrong is a way of life for you. :-D
Brit here. One of the most admirable aspects of Australian culture is their insane passion and dedication to motorsports culture. Whether on two wheels, four or more and whether fringe pursuits like this or more traditional motorsports competition, for such a small nation they've always punched above their size. They've produced some of the best drivers, racing teams and engineering solutions. Nothing but respect for Aussie car culture!
the only
only small in terms of population, it's a huge country otherwise
Agreed. I ride dirt bikes, and the Aussies have absolutely become the kings of motocross and freestyle. Nobody compares. Ride in peace, Jayo!
Motorsport is the only sport theyre good at
Eric Bana's racing passion taught me a few things about the love for the sport.
I grew up near Rosco's home workshop in Mulalloo and always heard about him growing up. I finally got to meet him in 2018. Such an amazing character! Very humble and a genuine hard working Aussie bloke with big ambitions! He is defiantly someone I look up to! Great video Scott.
I met Rosco as well many years ago and got to see the Mullaloo workshop. Ran into him accidentally at the local pizza shop and he shouted me a pizza. Mighty bloke!
Fellow mullaloo kid here! He bought the AI2 down to the local primary school during the Christmas fete, prior to his second attempt. I would have been 10 maybe!
"His garage" is 5 times the size of my apartament.
What's that in Olympic swimming pools?🇬🇧
Skill issue
Your apartment needs an owner mod
"Low speed" parachute deploys at 400 mph.😎
when you talk normally . but in a very different league😅
I’ll never forget how we crowded around the TV in 1989 to watch some French guy break the land speed record in a chain driven plywood box. It was our moon landing. Plus it was on right before Alf, so that didn’t hurt.
what? 1989 land speed record in a chain driven plywood box? Technology was WAY past that in 1989. Typo?
@@MikeZ8709 Don’t gaslight me, bro.
@@mojoron I caught that too. :)
@@MikeZ8709 0:36 :listen carefully
The script writer and video editor are still cringing to this day, 20 years since the video was first uploaded.
As an Aussie myself, there would be something so perfect about the LSR holder being an Aussie with a name like Rosco McGlashan.
Sounds like an assumed name doesn't it ?
I think my favorite thing about Rosco is that HE'S NOT DEAD! Talk about dome dangerous stuff! Dude must live for the thrill.
if you got money and time, everyone would live for the thrill.
I think the fact that he’s still alive means that he lives for the engineering.
He reminds me of Ken Warby and the world water speed record. Sadly Ken passed away of natural causes last year having held the WWS record since 1978 that he set in a boat he designed himself and built in his backyard using a j34 jet engine he bought for scrap metal prices that a couple of guys from the RAAF got running for him. Everyone who has attempted to break his record has died. Watch the youtube video of his run as she dances on the planes. kzhead.info/sun/odCodpSdfV-weas/bejne.html Scary stuff!
To put all these massive numbers into perspective: at one point, the Bloodhound LSR was going to have a 550 hp Jaguar V8 to act as the fuel pump. The jet they use is so enormous, it needs a 550hp fuel pump. That is how insane it has become to beat this land speed record. They've moved to a massive electric motor now, as that technology has advanced with EV's.
the jet engine is used in the eurofighter, the eurofighter uses two of these.
@@SimonBauer7 The Eurofighter is built completely different. The pump it uses can't be used on the LSR, so they had to find something else. If it did work, they would've used it. No point in developing a new system. The point is that a single engine needs a 550 hp fuel pump, which is insane. Regardless of type or what it is used in.
the v8 fuel pump was for the rocket, not the jet engine if I remember correctly
A more interesting fact (if you can comprehend it) is the V8 engines intake air needed to be intercooled... *before* the supercharger. The air pressure beyond mach1 is enough that it would increase the intake temps enough to badly reduce performance, so it would be intercooled (likely air-to-water) then go through the supercharger as normal.
@@tomstech4390 That is pretty insane! Science becomes a lot weirder at those speeds.
Knowing that there are still innovative mad men like Roscoe around makes my day a little bit brighter.
As an American kid born in 1954 Craig Breedlove was the first person I watched on TV driving the Spirit of America. I was so facinated by the fact it did not fly. The mechanics of keeping it on the ground was facinating to me..still is.I have taken lessons on flying and you can take off on 100mph in the right plane, even less with a Bi-plane..so keeping these boys on the ground blows me away.
It's just a reversed wing.
From what I understood from the Thrust SSC team when I watched the record-setting, it had (in addition to its ground-effects design) small retro-type rockets built into the body that would slam the car down on the ground if 'liftoff' was detected at any time. Interestingly, it also had interior baffles built into the frame that were designed to break up and 'shove along' the supersonic shock wave as it passed through the car on its supersonic run. As well, Squadron Leader Green mentioned to us (press & bystanders) that the turbulence/shaking approaching the trans-sonic zone was strong, but once through, It very much smoothed out, and was much easier to control. His tactic to handle this was to get to around 650 or so, then back off for a bit, then PUNCH through the zone. What guts - this is an activity for the few, not me. But it's entertaining as hell, and even inspirational. Finally, FTR, I found Mr. Green to be one of those rare individuals who was nothing but 100.000% positive that it would happen successfully and safely. Kinda reminded me of Dick Rutan (pilot of Voyager, 1st aircraft to circumnavigate Earth in ONE flight.) Thank God for these folks..;)
A quick relative description of the run: A late-model vehicle will, after a couple minutes or so of pedal-to-the metal acceleration, be going approximately 110 mph/175 kph or so; at that speed, a Formula One car will pass it like it's standing still, because it'll be doing roughly double that speed.. The F1 car at top speed will be passed by a commercial jetliner like IT is standing still, because the jet will be doing double the F1's top.. If the jetliner pilot were to fly low over the SSC run, and look down as he did so, he would see the car easily outstrip him. THAT is some monster speed ;) It can cover 200 + meters in a snap of the fingers! Next time you are driving down the freeway at 77mph/121 kph, count the seconds between regularly-spaced markers (electric/comm. utility poles, mile/distance markers, etc.), then divide that by 10 for a real-time comparison of speeds (top instantaneous SSC speed was reported to be 771 mph/~1200kph). Visually, acceleration from 0-300 mph/480 kph was gradual, to prevent any unforeseen object pick-up (and potential damage), but the acceleration from 300-600 to me was the visual definition of the word 'terrific' - at around 450 or so, it's speed is like nothing you've ever seen on Earth, and it is CONTINUING acceleration! Its ACCELERATION is accelerating! It is at this point that, again to me, its speed approaches the ungodly.. If one were to fire a rifle bullet in the same direction as the car as it entered the timing zone, the car would outrun the bullet! A snap of the fingers is covered distance longer than two football pitches, US or other. ALL THIS WITH REAR-WHEEL STEER!! I couldn't do it..;[] Unforgettable ;) P.S. A blind 'spectator' with us on a low hill overlooking the site took off his shoes & socks, then buried his hands & feet in the loose sand, dirt & gravel ther, & after the run, claimed he could feel the Shockwave through the ground. I find science ALL fascinating..
That 250mph go cart must have felt absolutely insane, lmao.....especially so low down! Respect, this crazy dude has some serious balls!
Thrust 2 increased land speed record to 633.5mph 13 years after Blue Flame. So, land speed record has been UK held since 1983.
Indeed. In all the fuss about Thrust SSC, he forgot about Thrust 2...
NZer here - awesome stuff! Go you Aussies! He should name this thing the "20 Metre Tool". He'd have girls going around saying "OMG! OMG! I dated a guy with a 20 metre tool! He took it out for me and it was long and round with a really shiny end!" ;)
Love it! Great share - Included the Bud-Rocket car too which is always great to see. Top speed / Land Speed racing is dangerous stuff. The loss of Jessi Combs in 2019 is testament to the level of commitment these racers have towards their dreams. These record attempts are unforgiving. A prayer and solute to Rosco McGlashan’s and his quest of 1000!
At age 4 learned that tricycles always tip over
In a straight line, on flat ground? Perhaps you should refrain from giving up your training wheels my friend...
I saw the Blue Flame in some ones back yard in Lake Elsinore, California back in the middle 1970's
Thanks. Detailed commentary was very clear explanation.
thankyou for doing this piece! this guy is such a legend here in Perth, he's literally building this thing in his backyard down the road from my house
i love the progression land speed records have had. started with just a car, then progressive performance upgrades, on to a piston engine fighter without wings, to jet fighter without wings, on to fucking multi-stage, could probably make orbit with some tweaks, rockets that you just dont aim up. like at this point they've taken things so far its barely even a land speed record rather an air speed record while still technically touching the ground.
The Budweiser Rocket Car exceeded 700 mph in 1979. Although it did not sustain it for a mile or perform it 2 ways so it was not recognized as an official record.
Doing those speeds momentarily is a lot easier than measured mile in 2 directions within an hour. There are many challenges involved with sustaining supersonic speeds over a mile and the fast turn around to immediately do it all again.
No it did't, no speed was recorded because the external radar setup failed to lock on to the car during the run. It's all on video calculations done later say it could not have exceeded 620mph during the run same as how the SSC Tuatara was caught out a few years back after they claimed a run of 331Mph. Further to that mathematical calculations of the car & rocket engine done years later say it had a theatrical top speed of around 630Mph. Only Barrett himself claimed he went supersonic based on his own calculations of internal telemetry claiming 739.666 Mph. No possible way he could have achieved that speed & the video of the run clearly does not support it or shows the car even approaching let alone breaking the barrier. Barrett also refused to show his internal telemetry data or calculations to anyone.
@@ZuulGatekeeper Indeed, and there was no sonic boom! Shocked that this wasn't mentioned.
To break it down to basics , no boom no sound Barrier broken
@@ZuulGatekeeper - On point!!!!!!! Barret is a bullsh*t artist!!!!!
I am always looking forward to your videos. I think they’re brilliant and I really enjoy them. Please keep up the good work in the future.
Another great video. Love Rosco's grit and determination. Looks like many of the technical challenges have been researched and understood. Supersonic speeds bring massive challenges, most of which you have covered, and very well. One that will cause many challenges is moving that much earth (or salt depending on the location of the event). Would expect 10kg per second as a starting estimate. That is one of the factors that takes massive power - and understanding that is one of the factors that have prevented success and then ultimately led to understanding of why power levels have to be so very high for these incredible machines. Hats off to you Rosco!!
I'm an engineer and am totally impressed with all the thinking going into this land speed record car. I'm assuming the body is steel because they need the weight to keep it on the ground. The front "emergency brake" would be better mounted behind the center of mass, you do not want the car swapping ends at high speed.
no, we’re increasing the weight to slow the acceleration down, so that each of the 140 kg wheels. Can spin up in sync with the cars acceleration. it’s all explained in the book on Amazon. Rosco the fastest Aussie on earth.
I grew up a few doors down from Rossco. Was great to see his progress and is an inspiration to never give up. He started the jet up one day and the police thought a helicopter had crashed! Good times the
I really hope he is successful in going over 1000 MPH. I've been to Bonneville twice as a spectator and am looking forward to attending this year as well. I love anything that goes fast!
Good post, sat next to Ross on a plane to LA in 82 /83, what a energetic man.
If it's 0-1000 mph in 22 seconds why is this video 26 minutes long.
'cause being fast alwais needs slow thinking
Why do you care
@@quadrantalerror1121 Get a sense of humor, Karen.
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@@SwedeSpeeder 😂😂😂❤️
Rosco McGlashan and Ken Warby are absolute Aussie legends. Good luck Rosco
Thanks, Damien, the book is on the way. 👍
@@aussieinvader5r Thank you.
I remember being in school and seeing posters and info about Bloodhound SSC aiming for the 1000mph mark. A decade on and we're still not there but it's good to know the race is still on.
God Bless You Roscoe and Your Family!! I know You'll succeed. Have Faith!! Jimmy in NC....
You forgot Richard Noble breaking the speed record in 1982 with thrust 2.
No mention of Art Arfons either.
No he didn't, he literally mentions it at 8:30.
"1989 in France" Think you meant to say 1898 lol
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It's France. Entirely believable. "Le monde, c'est nous."
@@feynthefallen I think you mean Parisians. And I don't know if it's better or worse than "we're the good guys" the US!
@@GuillaumeH84 Oh no. The Parisians are like "La France, c'est nous". And about the US, at least they have it right when they feel they don't need another language because everybody speaks theirs. I once saw an acetone can from a francophone country. It had two labels: "Acetone" for english and "Acètone" for french. Francophone Swiss people are the same. Trying to tell me they don't speak anything but french when I know for a _FACT_ that for decades each Swiss child has learned at least English AND a second one of the four official languages at school, three of which I speak to some degree or other. I don't know what it is about the french speaking people that makes them absolute snobs and a***holes about thinking everybody HAS to speak french.
@@feynthefallen My dear friend.....Acetone in French takes an accent aigu, not an accent grave on the e. At least make a proper correction since you don't like training wheels translation for anglophones stuck in their glory.
I met Ross back in the 90's as a 12 yr-old school kid here in Perth. Our teacher told us to do a project on your Hero! So I chose Ross. I already knew where he lived at the time, the house with the massive garage! So I knocked on his door. My "interview" was him showing off all his toys, like his 12 or so different jet engines in a gigantic rack, the Aussie Invader 1 & 2 (which won the aussie land speed record) and the Aussie Invader 3, which at the time was still being built. A jet dragster he made for fun. Some very fast looking bikes. He was so welcoming and enthusiastic. I'll never forget what a good bloke he was. Dead set Legend. I wish Ross all the best, hope he gets the record.
This video was fantastic. Great work.
once had the pleasure of standing in that shed in the 90`s and chatting to Rosco, really nice bloke.
this is really the best KZhead channel....great video guys....again
Still blows my mind that i met Rosco and his Aussie Invader. I'm not sure which one it was but it was in the 90's so it must of been number 3. Not even sure how it happened but being a cabinet maker at the time i was probably installing some cabinets at his. But anyway he showed us his shed and the aussie invader. I may have forgotten some of the details but i'll never forget that mammoth machine in his shed :)
Thanks for this mate ! , I’d love you to find lucky Kaiser and do a story on him he’s an amazing guy !
"In an effort to improve safety, Rosco moved to the protection of 4 wheels WITH A ROCKET POWERED GO KART" 💀💀💀💀💀
Look forward to seeing this attempt, very interesting. Thanks.
I remember hearing about Rosco's attempts when I was a kid in the 90s. I had just assumed that he had given up after falling short all those years ago.
The piston idea for the tanks is genius. I have always wondered about on orbit fuel transfer, and how that would be possible (no gravity means your fuel is going to be sloshing...a lot).
I connected to Rosco's link profile in 2016. I don't know why or how he found me, but I immediately knew that he was one of these guys we would talk about for decades. Such an incredible story from an incredible engineer.
Awesome 👍 so many important aspects explained clearly and simply, 5 Stars 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟...and good luck to Roscoe
3:41 1997 sound barrier break. wikipedia has it around ~767mph but that's quite variable.
This was fascinating. I haven't followed the land speed record attempts since I was a kid. I was obsessed with the Blue Flame back then.
Dick Keller is a good friend of ours and of the project. He has described Aussie Invader 5R as the blue flame on steroids? 😂
"and rockets are designed to go - *THAT WAY* ." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Good On Ya Mate, Good Luck.
I really enjoy these F1 adjacent videos!
Classy af promoting a language software/app also, great vid.
That Rocket Labs sticker on the side says it all! They are amazing and to be helped by them is definitely worth it!
I wonder if another option would be to use a video screen rather than looking out of a windscreen. That way you could position the driver as you'd like and not have to consider if they can see or not. You could also mount the screens to the driver cell such that it would vibrate with the driver possibly improving visibility. You could maybe even opt for a more laid back position, which may be able to give you a smaller frontal area. The hard part I guess would be keeping it low latency.
Ah, yes, the "low speed parachute" at **FOUR HUNDRED MPH**. This car is absolutely bonkers, and I love it.
A beer, a pie, and good old Aussie grit.... open the gates of hell - we'll see you soon.
I don’t know much about land speed racing, but I am interested in rockets and I found the information in this video lacking about that system. In case anyone else is in the same boat, here’s some more detail: The engine page on their website says they can’t show specifics due to legal restrictions, but elsewhere they provide plenty. The engine runs on a hypergolic propellant combination, with turpentine as the fuel and (presumably inhibited) white fuming nitric acid as the oxidiser. It’s pressure fed with regulated nitrogen through the piston arrangement shown, with that pressure varying from 750 to 450 psi feed (assuming a typical 20% injector dP that means they’re running ~ 600 psi in the chamber), giving them a throttle range of ~100-60%. The engine is ablatively cooled, and looks to be composed of carbon fiber composite. They also show a picture up the gullet, revealing an injector face with several concentric rings of what appear to be like-impinging doublets, possibly with an outer ring of impinging triplets. Unusually, their injector face does not span the whole chamber and there appears to be just a wide ring of blank metal at the top between the injector and the outer wall of the thrust chamber. WFNA/turpentine is a pretty retro choice, I’d like to know what led them to choose those propellants but afaik they don’t say anywhere.
Great video, dude... thanks!
Very interesting, thanks for the information.
Ah 1989. Those were the days. To think only one year earlier in 1988 we had cars so slow we'd never even set a world speed record.
I have met Rosco in real life at a car show in Perth. Top bloke. I wish him success. Honestly surprised he has struggled to get sponsorship for this car.
Greetings from South Perth m8 :)
@@----.__ hello fellow West Australian
>Low speed Parachute >Deploys at 400MPH holy shit this is so unbelievable as a normal person
Great video, loved it! God bless.
Absolute madman. Love it!
I guess you could say Andy Green has been put on notice. I'm gunning for both these guys and their cars; I love watching land speed records tumble, but being an Aussie I hope Rosco gets there first.
I have had many conversations with Rosco he is an amazing dude, I also know and interviewed the crew that supported Malcolm Cambell landspeed attempts lots of stories with lose tails of verification.
You missed Babs! aka "Chitty Bang Bang 4". "....Parry-Thomas rechristened the car Babs and rebuilt it with four Zenith carburettors and his own design of pistons. In April 1926, Parry-Thomas used the car to break the land speed record at 171.02 mph (273.6 km/h)." - wikipedia
I'd say Art Arfons deserves a mention as well. He was more of the "eccentric in a shed" approach, using found parts (some of which were jet engines). Maybe the underdog, but put up a hell of a fight to Craig Breedlove, who had all the sponsorships.
A 1,000 mph is the ultimate record the person that does it will live forever in the history books and will probably be the last record for a long time!
Well, you just earned a subscriber! Great great, and informative video! Fingers 🤞! 🚀 🚗
"La Jamais Contente" was also an electric vehicle. According to historical records it had two 25kW motors, each driving one of the rear wheels with chains, powered by 200 volts worth of wet cells. The chassis was built by Rothschild. Aussie Invader 1 had 6,500lb thrust, not 65,000lb thrust.
Can you please do a video on drivers choosing to run a front steery car vs a rear steery car. Some drivers I've found in sim racing love to have really soft rears and have it steer with the throttle and others like it to be more on the nose and steer with the wheel. Could you discuss this in a video?
Fastest man on the planet...cool title and a heck of an accomplishment! Thanks for the detailed and very interesting video.
Excellent and very informative video…
Good Grief! Just got to the bit of the video about Rosco!!
You forgot to mention Richard Noble in Thrust 2 who broke the record with 633mph that was before Thrust SSC
Very well done. Thank you
Great finds - be worth squaring off an area & using a classifier or garden sieve to see what might turn up. Even digging a test pit could be interesting. The rest of that pot is around there somewhere!! The dogs had fun - my dog enjoyed watching them!
I really hope with the book and recent publicity Rosco been able to get some funds. Australia could do with an inspirational and galvanising moment. Maybe a whole number of KZheadrs can give this project exposure to build up some hype. It would be incredible to see this live.
Thrust SSC was built on the Isle of Wight for the most part, spent most of its time in an airfield hanger. Mechanics always do a lot with what they have, if they're real mechanics.
Our 'quad' engine GTP-X lsr pegs it's speedometer at 600 - 650 mph. Wheels are limiting factor as it enters transitional speeds approaching Mach. It requires 5 times energy on either side of M.8 - M2. It Uses 4 sbc's force fed air and fuel, with each one producing 2,500 mph. 10,000 hp breaks the mach numbers and it is wonderful....
Why were the Summers brothers famous Golden Rod not mentioned? Naturally aspirated V-8 engines (4Chrysler HEMIs) AND wheel driven. It set a record of 409.277mph in 1965 that STILL STANDS today!!
The v8 motorcycle was done in Michigan at the Milan, Dragway in about 1963 by …..I forgot his name. They use to show “tune and test” night on the new uhf channel on Thursday nights. Just what a teenage kid needs that just got a license.
I'm about as far as is possible from what I consider "being an Aussie" entails and requires (both by geography and attitude;) But I can not help but root for this "absolute nutter" :), and I can not wait for him to break this record... Best regards.
@8:05 The SNECMA Atar engine equiped french Mirage III fighter jets. It's a Dassault Rafale in the vid.
"deliciously complicated"- LOL!
Cant wait for the Car Wow drag - Plaid vs Nevera vs Spierling vs Aussie Invader 😂
Maybe worth mentioning rockets fly mostly horizontally for most of their flight. The big difference is they always pull positive G while running their rocket motors so they are settling their own fuel supply - the cars need to keep running while decelerating so need to push the fuel in. It's not because they're horizontal.
Fan of your channel,💪. I don't have a problem with converting units real time but many of your viewers could have so it would be nice to have metric units shown also. We metric people also like speed😎
Actually, Breedlove broke the 600 mph barrier by a fraction. As a child I sat in the car at the Minnesota state fair. Hilariously, the throttle pedal was one of big chrome foot shaped ones with toes.
that "safety cage" around the driver seat is purely a psychological crutch. If that thing disintigrates halfway, at > 700mph, with that much fuel infront of it... that "cage" will simply cease to exist.
Rosco is a true Aussie with a can do attitude. and he's from Perth! Go on, she be right mate!
Brings me back to Peter Weller in Buckaroo Bonzai and the beginning of the film when they drove through another dimension and through a mountain. No one knows where the Ford Jet truck is or do they?
Lol first ever in 1989 instead of the massive banner reading 1898
For years I have followed Roscoe McGlashan and his "car" from I think an original Discovery Film. I do hope that he/they will be able to make a try for a new Record at a time?
I always wondered how the tires hold themselves together at 400+ mph speeds. I notice the more recent faster vehicles don't have tires at all.
I worked for Cytec who's name was on the side of the Thrust because we gave them some out of spec carbon fiber for free.. We were shown a video where Andy stated that there was only a 1 degree margin of error from lifting and being buried into the sand.. 1 degree, thus the rear tail wing.. Good luck for ANYONE thinking they can keep whatever their driving doing better or equal than that at 1000 mph.. They probably are going to die.. The car was also physically shaking apart on the second to last run, it survived the last run and they called it over.. It was coming apart from the intense vibration..
*It completed a Kilometer in 57 seconds, which is 39.24 MPH.* Jumping through hoops to avoid metric units 😂
Incredible stuff. I hope he makes it! 1000mh...Wow.