To FIA, the 425 mph over the flying kilo is the fastest average speed ever set by a piston engine car.
This is very important for everybody who likes to go for the blown unlimited piston class on FIA - means Burkland.
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I seperate this to my other comment.
Why is this so important.
Therefore I have to explain something special on the FIA rules.
Best example is Blue Flame/Gary Gabelich and Thrust II/Richard Noble.
When Richard set in 1983 a new mark, the Blue Flame and the Thrust was running still in the same class - FIA C Thrust power - meanwhile they split the Class C in Rocket power and Jet power.
The Blue Flame got the mile with a 622 mph in the record book and the kilo with a 630 mph - in America people are not taking care for the flying kilo - better they do.
Richard went 633 mph in the mile and 634 mph in the kilo.
Now everybody would say, great - the 634 is the new record, but this is wrong.
Richard's speed over the kilo was not 1% faster than Gary Gabelich's kilo speed of 630 mph.
Now, Richard's mile record was with the 633 mph 1% faster than the mile record from the Blue Flame and also faster than the kilo speed.
So at last, the kilo record from Gary was still in the FIA record book and only the mile record went to Richard Noble.
Gary's kilo record is in, still today, due to this that meanwhile rocket and jet are different catagories.
What the FIA rules now means to Al's 1991 record is this.
To set a new record in blown, piston engine in the unlimited litre class 11, he has to be 1% faster in the kilo, or a friction faster than the kilo speed in the mile. In other words, as a example - if now Tom Burkland would run 424 mph in the mile and 426 mph in the kilo, he would not set a new record......
Why? The 424 is not faster than the 425 in the kilo (which Al set in 1991), and the 426 mph is not 1% faster than the 425 in the kilo - confused now - I can understand.
The whole thing is very strange, but FIA rule.
So Tom Burkland has to go 425+ mph in the mile or 429.5+ mph in the kilo to set a new record.
If he goes 426 mph in the mile and in the kilo only 427 mph - he would only get the mile record, not the kilo - the kilo would stay by Al.
So also, to FIA, the 417 mph which was set by Tom Burkland in October 2004 during the World Final, is not the fastest average to today, except you count only the flying mile........but as I wrote before....in America, they better take also care for the flying kilo...............