The Bloodhound vehicle has become the third fastest British car of all time – unofficially.
The arrow-shaped racer clocked a speed of 461mph (741km/h) as it powered across a dried-out lakebed in southern Africa’s Kalahari desert on Friday.
This mark tops the 403mph (648km/h) recorded by Donald Campbell in his Bluebird CN7 car in 1964.
The only British cars to have gone faster are Thrust2 and Thrust SSC which both got well above 600mph (965km/h).
Thrust SSC still holds the absolute land speed record of 763mph (1 ... Read even more
