Breaking a world record is a pipe dream for most of us. But for one team of people it was within touching distance of becoming a reality before the pandemic hit and put the kibosh on more than a decade’s worth of work.
Bloodhound LSR - a Bristol-built supersonic car that had been on the brink of breaking the world land-speed record - has spent the last 20 months on display at Coventry Transport Museum.
Before the pandemic, the project had been on course to beat the current world record of 763mph - achieved by Wing Commander Andy Green and the Thrust SSC in 1997 - by reaching speeds of more than 800mph (1,290kmph) during trials in South Africa. The car reached a top speed of 628mph in the Kalahari Desert in 2019.
