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As at least one of the two cars I know of is getting ready to run (somewhat), I thought a thread devoted to the Word Land Speed Record was preferable over a bunch of separate threads. BloodhoundLSR to run at Hakskeen Pan track in South Africa - October 2019 After 11-years, the Bloodhound Land Speed Record team announced that the Bloodhound LSR car will run for the first time on its dry lake bed race track at Hakskeen Pan, Northern Cape, South Africa, in October 2019. http://www.bloodhoundlsr.com/october-2019-date-set-for-bloodhound-high-speed-test-programme/ Following the successful 210mph (320km/h) UK runway trials at Cornwall Airport Newquay in October 2017, the team will be targeting 500mph (800km/h) – a key milestone on the journey to setting a new world land speed record. The record runs are currently scheduled for late 2020. Will this happen? Who knows, but Ian Warhurst, the new owner, seems to have much better control over this project than did Richard Noble.
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For the Land Speed Record fans on Sailing Anarchy: The recently purchased Bloodhound SSC, is now Bloodhound LSR with a new website and rebranding, including a paint job. Bloodhound LSR is a new venture based on the Bloodhound Project that will use the Bloodhound SSC Car rescued from administration by Yorkshire-based businessman Ian Warhurst in December 2018. http://www.bloodhoundlsr.com From March 2019, the Bloodhound LSR project has a new headquarters – the UK Land Speed Record Centre – in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, and a new parent company, Grafton LSR Limited. The Bloodhound team is now preparing the car to go to South Africa; initially for high speed tests and then to set a new world land speed record. The new headquarters is 975 square metres (10,494.813 Square Feet) in area, much smaller than the original Bloodhound SSC base. The current world land speed record of 763.035 mph (1,227.985 km/h) was set over 20 years ago by a British team including Bloodhound LSR driver Andy Green. Advances in engineering design, materials and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) since the last record was broken mean we can be confident of breaking that record with Bloodhound LSR. The New Team list The Bloodhound LSR team is headed up by Ian Warhurst. Ian is joined by driver and current world land speed record holder Andy Green, engineering director Mark Chapman, chief financial officer Rick Sturge, operations director Martyn Davidson, commercial director Ewen Honeyman, and many of the original mechanics and technicians, providing continuity from the old programme to the new. QBF Note: It looks like Richard Noble is no longer a member of the team. Here is a photo of Bloodhound SSC during their high-speed test in 2017 while going a blistering 201mph! Q&A Q: Bloodhound has been designed to use the engine from a military jet – what’s the relationship with the MOD and Rolls-Royce? We’re updating the relevant contracts to transfer the loans of the engines to the new management company and don’t foresee any problems with this. In addition, Ian and the team have visited Nammo for discussions about the rocket needed for the land speed record runs, and Nammo is very supportive of our plans. Q: Why was the new location at SGS Berkeley campus chosen? The Bloodhound LSR project has completed the build phase, so we no longer need the space we had in the old building. The new location is at the heart of a college campus, which fits perfectly with our inspirational education remit. It is also within reach of Bristol, enabling us to retain many of the team and giving the project continuity of expertise. Answers to Other Questions Now we have to complete all of the paperwork to use government-owned land in someone else’s country. As part of this, we need to provide evidence that we can run the Car safely without damaging the local environment. It will help that we’ve done this before, even if it was over 20 years ago! The South Africans are very keen to get Bloodhound out there on its new track, so they will do everything they can to get the paperwork completed quickly. In some cases, we should be able to use the paperwork we’ve prepared previously just by changing the name to ‘Bloodhound LSR’, but I’m sure it won’t all be that easy. Equally important is all of the export paperwork. It’s no real surprise that exporting state-of-the-art military equipment (like our Rolls-Royce jet engine) attracts a lot of attention from the organisations who control that sort of thing. While the regulations controlling international arms shipments were never drafted with the Land Speed Record in mind, we are using military-spec hardware, so they still apply to us! Hakskeen Pan track in South Africa