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Apart from a brief break in the 1960s and 1970s, British engineering and drivers have played a dominant role in setting the land speed record in the fastest cars on the planet. It's a rich history, starting from Lydston Hornsted's Benz No. 3, which broke the record to reach 124 mph 100 years ago, to the current land-speed-record holder Andy Green's Thrust SSC, which crossed the supersonic barrier to reach 763 mph in 1997.
Now the people behind Thrust SSC have set themselves an even more challenging target: to reach the land speed record of 1,000 mph in a new car called Bloodhound SSC. The...
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