These days, the kind of car that breaks a land speed record doesn't exactly look like one you'd see at an intersection — it can look pretty cool, though.

Theories on low-drag aero­dynamics ­haven’t changed much since the longtail Le Mans racers that inspired the Aerotech, adding a timeless aspect to the futuristic design. On a lonely oval racetrack in ...

Chris Raschke of the Speed Demon Racing Team died Sunday while attempting to break a land speed record at the annual Bonneville Salt Flats Speed Week in Utah. Reports claim the veteran racer lost ...

What is aerodynamics? What is speed? What is efficiency? Honestly, we're about to find out, and the one machine to show us how it's done is a friggin velomobile from the minds and hands over at ...

A driver going 283 mph trying to set a land speed record during a racing event at Utah’s famed Bonneville Salt Flats died Sunday after he lost control of his rocket-like vehicle called the Speed Demon ...

Race officials, tinkerers and competitors converge in Utah every fall to test both metal and mettle Stuart Conway Photographs by Stuart Conway Bonneville is one of the flattest natural runways on the ...

A speed driver died while trying to break a record during the Bonneville Speed Week event in Utah on Sunday. Chris Raschke, 60, was driving at 283 miles per hour while trying to set a land speed ...

Chris Raschke, 60, lost control of his land-speed vehicle during a run on Sunday, Aug. 3, according to the Southern California Timing Association, which oversees the event. “At approximately 3:03 p.m.

The race for the fastest land speed record on a motorcycle has been a hotly contested accolade ever since the first motorcycles hit the roads. The evolutionary history of motorcycle engines has always ...

A racing driver was killed as he attempted to break a land speed world record on Sunday, after he lost control of his vehicle at speeds approaching 300 mph. Chris Raschke, who was 60, was ...