New Production Car Land Speed Record - 330 MPH

[donpearsall]

Check out this video showing the SSC Tuatura which just made 330 mph. Now the world's fastest production car. You can buy one for $1.9M.
https://youtu.be/N22JfNHiC1k

Also interesting is that the team took over a 9-mile portion of road near Pahrump, NV to make the record. As the salt flats rapidly becomes unusable for racing, I think going this way is something the racing venues should be looking at. #NoMoreRustyCars!

Don

[Bob Wanner]

A two lane road with rumble strip shoulders gets might narrow at speed, what really made the Silver State classic dangerous, not so much the speed. This guy almost bought it due to wind, in a Aero car, imagine a older stock bodied car?
Hopefully another  airport gets discovered, a long one. 

[Doc B.]

Made in West Richland, WA. Wow.

[salt27]

Does anyone know what sanctioning body this "fastest production car record" was under?

I see they did list a two way average.

[Lemming Motors]

A Tuatara is a New Zealand unique lizard that dates its family tree to the dinos; doesn't look anything like the car in the vid by the way.

Blast; I am only $1.9 mill short.

[jimmy six]

Being a production car I wonder how many come off the assembly line per hour, or day, or week, or month, or year, or decade?

[salt]

2021 production of 12 cars is already sold out.
Dang, I wanted to put 100mph on the D/BFMS record at SW '21!

Willi

[Jack Gifford]

,,, Does anyone know what sanctioning body this "fastest production car record" was under?...

Guiness Book of Records.

[4-barrel Mike]

,,, Does anyone know what sanctioning body this "fastest production car record" was under?...

Guiness Book of Records.

Didn't they certify the Budweiser Rocket?   

Over to you, Prof K 

Mike

[floydjer]

That is a sizable cash outlay for a Chevy powered kit car. I want one.

[stay`tee]

from the drivers helmet cam view, the road furniture dosent seem to be flashing by that quick,, at 330mph it takes 10.9 seconds to the mile, that is 2.72 seconds to travel a 1/4 mile,  just sayin   

[Beef Stew]

from the drivers helmet cam view, the road furniture dosent seem to be flashing by that quick,, at 330mph it takes 10.9 seconds to the mile, that is 2.72 seconds to travel a 1/4 mile,  just sayin   

During the run how many seconds was he running 330 mph? I watched the video and most of his time was spent accelerating to 330mph.   

[wobblywalrus]

Why did the car slow down when it did?  It was accelerating hard when it reached the indicated 330.  Maybe it could have gone faster.

[Beef Stew]

A Volvo Hybrid Truck set a speed record at Wendover Airport. Mike Cook did the timing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k0S5ePV3q4

In a few years, when Bonneville becomes a mud flat, BNI can run standing kilometer races at Wendover Airport 

[TrickyDicky]

from the drivers helmet cam view, the road furniture dosent seem to be flashing by that quick,, at 330mph it takes 10.9 seconds to the mile, that is 2.72 seconds to travel a 1/4 mile,  just sayin   

Something's not right about that video.

According to written reports, on the 331mph run the car was caught by a cross wind and moved two lanes over onto the rumble strip.  I don't see that.  Then in the video the driver (Brit Oliver Webb) is seen shaking his arm in celebration, when he was reported to be just relieved to still be alive and said that would be his last run.

Maybe someone (deliberately?) mixed a slower run in-car with the timing from the fastest run?

To answer Beefstew's point: my understanding is that 331mph was an "instantaneous" peak speed.  The fastest (one way) mile is reported to have been at a 313.12mph average speed.

There will probably be more detail available if and when Guinness formally recognise the record.