I have apparently been living under a rock. I had no clue the Jessi Combs had passed away during a land speed run. I had a huge crush on her back in the early 2000's. I watched her on myth busters, overhaul'n and xtreme 4x4. She was very talented and seemed as though she could build/accomplish anything. R.I.P. Jessi.
I respect when channels take different creative directions, but I don't know about this. I still love James, Nolan, Jeremiah and the whole crew, but ever since they left the "schedule" they had with b2b, wheelhouse, money pit, up to speed and D-List, the channel seems a bit lost.
My grandpa was a driver and mechanic for Art Arfons. He worked on The Green Monster and a lot of Art's jet car projects, later passing away racing the Jetvette. I had no idea how instrumental The Green Monster had been in pushing the land speed record competition. Thanks for the great video!
Kyle G, get yourself a copy of Speed Duel: The Inside Story of the Land Speed Record in the Sixties by Samuel Hawley. Thi8s exceptional book covers the LSR duel between all of the drivers and teams of the 60's with deep dives into Art and Craig's efforts to outgun each other. Its a riveting book, one you won't put down. That your grandfather worked and drove for Art almost asures you'll learn more about him from this book. I got to meet Art during his tractor pulling days in the mi9d 80's, a company I worked for made ballistic composite body panels for BigFoot (we are based in St. Louis) and Art wanted to meet us to see a sample and discuss its use on his pulling rig. I always suspected he also wanted to see if the composite would be useful on his final LSR project that never came to fruition. Fun night at the old Checkerdome, got to meet a motorsports icon and get an inside look at pulling rigs, something totally off the wall for our team as our primary focus was SCCA road racing work at the time, besides the BigFoot stuff. PS: You can find the book used or via interlibrary loan at your local library, which is how I read it. Give your connection it might be nice if you can find a new or near new copy. Happy Reading!
6:04 My wife's grandmother was watching Malcolm Seagrave on Daytona Beach the day he broke the record and also on many other days. She & her friends actually met and talked with him, those being very different times than today.
I was a kid in the 60s when the jet cars came on the scene and the Beach Boys had a song about Craig Breedlove. The Blue Flame was my favorite land speed record car and the last one to set the LSR at the Bonneville Salt Flats. Minor quibble: the driver's name was pronounced Gabelich, gab rhymed with cab, not gabe. And the Blue Flame used a rocket engine, not a jet. This was the only LSR record holder that was rocket-propelled. (The Budweiser Rocket came later and never set an official record.) I sketched up a model of the Blue Flame I planned to build that would've used an actual model rocket engine. I planned on tethering it with eyelets onto a length of monofilament fishing line between pylons set some distance apart on an empty, level parking lot, like my high school's on a Sunday. I figured that might keep it on the ground and pointed straight. I drew the sketch over 50 years ago. One of these days...
I have always been fascinated by The Blue Flame ever since the record was set when I was a kid. I have seen the car in person two times at the Sinsheim Technical Museum in Germany.
She also hosted All Girl Garage, which was given a really crappy timeslot but was a better show than many similar shows because he showed the sorts of things people actually did to their cars.
The Trust SSC will always be my favourite land speed record car because it introduced me to 3 things 1. land speed record racing events 2. jet powered cars 3. the first car to break the speed of sound The car was so iconic that there were pictures of it on my Physics book when we learned about speed
First "car", sure. A heavily modified F-350 broke the sound barrier back in the mid-80s. It was disqualified from the record because it crashed into a mountain and never made the reverse direction run.
First car to *undisputedly* break the sound barrier, at least. The Budweiser Rocket was alleged to have broken the sound barrier in 1979, although there’s been a lot of controversy over that.
The water speed record is a whole other can of worms. It is one of the deadliest records out there. So many people died trying to break it. Because when you catch a bad wave at those high speeds, you and your boat just disintegrate. At high speeds, water is just like concrete, but the waves and your boat digging into the water mean you don't just scrape to a halt like on a nice road or salt flat, but bounce around and get torn apart. It's like when you drop into water from a great height.
would you guys mind translating the freedom units to metric (atleast in a small text at the bottom of the screen) for us europeans? PS.: love your videos
@@zerosixteen.4644 literally everyone does besides americans, i've started using metric more often, just because i think it's a more universal and precise measurement compared to bald eagles per second, and cheeseburgers an hour
The amount of engineering that goes into the wheels of one of these things alone, so they don’t explode due to to rotational force, is an absolute feat in iteself
Just wanna point out, it wasn't Karl Benz himself, who took the car for a spin. It was his wife. She was the one who believed in his innovation. So happy woman's Day.
The first trip in the Benz patent car was most likely be Carl Benz him self. So was the first time it was taken up to top speed. Those test drives where done all on his property the first drive in public roads was done by his wife birtha Benz.
What an amazing story. I remember when I was a kid and the first thing I ever heard of about this kind of challenge was The Blue Flame. If I remember correctly it had 35,000 lb of thrust. I had no idea what this meant but wow, it was a huge number when I was 8 years old. The movie The World's Fastest Indian, was a great story about the drive people have to achieve these goals. Thanks again for the great story.
I grew up during the "speed wars" between Art Arfons (whom I knew) and Craig Breedlove (whose car was sponsored by the company for which my father worked.) Those were good times all around.
Hitting over 140 sounds so easy, but it's a huge thing. Having no aero, I hit 140 and realized I lost massive amounts of traction, and I was actually encountering lift. Those that are pushing anything beyond that mark are amazing, but they're legit risking their lives. So massive props.
Yep, similar to why trains haven't really been able to break the 180 MPH mark for the past couple of decades. Whilst possible, evidently by speed records; at such high speeds even something as heavy as a bullet train starts to slowly turn into an aerofoil and become unstable, difficult to maintain speed and traction, etc. Only rare and highly advanced examples like the Shanghai Maglev can achieve insane speeds with relative stability. Air is quite the finicky fluid.
I could've sworn I saw a video a year or two ago explaining that it would be nearly impossible to break the speed of sound in a ground vehicle due to the increasing amount of downward force required to prevent it from taking off. I had no idea it had already happened.
Surprised you guys didn't Mention Al Teague . He held the piston powered record for a while plus the wheel driven record. None of the jet engine stuff . He broke a 26 year old record In 1991 by going 409.8 . He is a land speed legend.
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I'm happy to see after brief googling that the wheel-driven category is still alive, and the current record is 458mph (737kph), set in 2001. Not that I don't respect the thrust cars, but I like the engineering challenge wheel-driven comes with :)
i missed a little node to old german driver legend Rudolf Caracciola, which drove 1938 the record for the flying mile (432.0km/h /268,432 MPH ) and flying KM /432.7km/h /268,86731 MPH ) on public roads, which was unbroken for 79 years (nearly 8 DECADES!) until a Koenigseggs Agera RS broke the record in 2017.
It's amazing the technological jumps we've made as a race in such a short time, so much innovation, but I here I sit in 2024 waiting for a better way to stop being an adult and responsibilities and things. Also, judging by this graph at the end of the video and the law of averages, we're in a plateau phase. I'd say with today's innovations, we could start seeing 1000mph within the next 10-15 years.
Really interesting and informative video. I remember as a kid in the 90's my dad brought me into the food warehouse he was managing late one night and in the middle of the receiving dock area sat one of these jet powered salt flat land speed cars. It was so wild to see as a kid, I was about 13 at the time and it felt almost like a dream. I guess the guys needed a place to store it for a while on their way out west.
6:04 My wife's grandmother was watching Malcolm Seagrave on Daytona Beach the day he broke the record and also on many other days. She & her friends actually met and talked with him, those being very different times than today.
Thank you for the small tribute to Jessi. I got in touch with her about an off-road mountain bike project I was working on at the time after her days on Xtreme 4x4 and we kept in touch a while afterwards. It was heartbreaking to hear about her crash. Drive in Pease Jessi!
RIP Skip Hedrich, his racing career was far more than his custom made Streamliner “American Eagle” that is shown in this whole clip, he also raced Indy, and was also in Speed Boat racing and more. He is extremely well known at Bonneville, why didn’t you showcase his racing and part of getting to speed? It’s nice that at the very least you mentioned him as if it was just a Streamliner, that happens to be at the museum…he just passed 3 months ago. You should at least look more into the car and the man, than just using it as a prop. I watched him build that car as his grandson for decades.
Camille jenatzy was a Belgian and the first car to touch the 100k/h (62m/h) was too ! An electric car named "la jamais contente". And it went faster ! up to 105,8 k/h (65,75 m/h).
My dad was offered the opportunity to do some body work for Craig Breedlove on the Spirit of America Formula Shell LSRV in the mid to late 90's out in Rio Vista, CA. Of course, he took it, and he let me come with him. It was an amazing experience for both of us.
@Jace Nice! Was it the same car? My dad works for a company called Scaled Composites which is responsible for some crazy aircraft over the years, most notably SpaceShip One/Two and White Knight and Stratolaunch AKA Roc. He does a lot of the precision body work and shaping of the parts and is great at what he does. I can't remember if he got involved with the Spirit of America team from the initial build or if he was brought in to help with the repairs. I must have been 8 or 9 at the time.
That’s awesome man! My Grandpa Rod word on like fiberglass bodies for race cars and such. He was the guy who worked on the Aerodynamics of the Spirit of America which broke the land speed record and dipping our toes into the 400 mph range. I remember when I got to sit in one of the NASCARs at PHX raceway. Unfortunately, he has already passed away to some condition, but he is one of my many inspirations to become an engineer thanks to him. It’s my final year of High School and I have obtained a full ride scholarship to the University of Arizona. So far so good👍
what i would do to see some Bumper 2 Bumper episodes. Visit some crazy car builders. Big Fan JpPerformance from germany would love to show his crazy builds
you do realise this was absolutely no different than an up to speed right? Do they actually need to call it "land speed record, up to speed" for you to understand the content was absolutely no different. Your complaint is literally about a video title not being exactly as you want it lmao.
@@kermitthefragg it's same and different at the same time. same in the sense that it tells history about cars Up to speed tells history about a specific model of car eg. rx7, GTR with James Pumphrey as the host telling iconic jokes like more powah baby. this video can be part of Wheelhouse as Nolan is the host
Look up Al Teague he held the piston record for a while. He also held the wheel driven record for a while until it was beat by a turbine engine driving the wheels. He broke the 26 year record in 1991 at 409.8mph . I believe he held the record for roughly 10 years . The wheel driven records and piston powered records are where it's at . Not sure who currently holds the record.
Such a shame that nobody will get behind bloodhound. The project was well on track to break the SSC record and possibly crack 1000mph. The funding needed is, realistically in todays world, pretty small.
No. More time needs to pass for it to become appropriate to do an episode on him. They absolutely will do one eventually, but at least a year needs to pass, and they’ll probably need to ask his family and Hoonigan for permission first.
I'm building a boat that uses the same J34 jet engine that holds the current all time water speed record. Planning on breaking the pontoon speed record this summer. It's been fun and so is the history behind those times! Nice video!
God man, chill out the bmw wasn't even that long ago and they just finished the new hi low, give them time i guarantee there working on something like that, they just gotta have a break from project to project
They just finished the new money pit series, it was "how many Subaru engines can we buy for Hi-Low". That was probably a pretty big money pit for them, haha.
Fun fact, the speed record on bike is held by Denise Mueller-Korenek who made 183.932 mph (296.009 km/h) at Bonneville salt flats behind a modified dragster as pacecar So she's the fastets female and human on bicycle
There's two records you forgot both are held by JCB which are fastest tractor at 103.6mph (166.72kph) and fastest diesel car when their dieselmax hit 350.092mph (563.42kph)
9:00 + 9:50 I can't help but think these inspired the 1989 Batmobile. Maybe there are just limited ways you can design a chassis around a jet engine; but throw some fins + black paint and I'd expect to see Michael Keaton climb out. 🦇
Its important to separate out thrust vehicles, turbine powered and piston powered wheel driven vehicles. Danny Thompson who holds the piston engine/wheel driven LSR in Challenger II at 448.75, set in 2018. This is the same car, updated to modern standards that his father Mickey drove to the piston engine/wheel driven LSR back in 1960 at a speed of 406.60. That record had stood for 58 years! There has been a single run by Don Vesco in the Vesco Turbinator (turbine power/wheel driven) at 503 also in 2018. Vesco holds the current wheel driven (not the same as piston engine as his car was a turbine engine/wheel driven vehicle) at 4458.444, set in 2021.
I love the ssc, even though it’s run was decades ago, I remember in school seeing photos of it in text books when talking about physics and such. An iconic piece of machinery to be sure. I can’t wait till I’m finally able to live through the next record, hopefully reaching that 1000mph goal
I was at Daytona 500 a couple weeks back, and at the Daytona Hotel lobby they've got Bluebird, one of the more famous landspeed record cars. And after admiring it for a good few minutes, and thinking about what it must have been like, and reading the plaque about the car and it's designer, Donald Campbell (guessing this vid is about him), and it's the same guy I was reading about several years ago who died while setting the water speed record. Dude was just a brilliant, fearless engineer. There's a museum up in the Lake District in the north of England about him and his vehicles. Man was real life Sonic. Gotta go fast.
I can't help but to get a little misty every time I see Jessi Combs pop up in media, she was such a badass, stellar role model for young women and a tortured artist who couldn't go a minute without creating something with her hands. Even with every precaution before every single run, land speed record racing is a roll of the dice every time a driver gets into the vehicle, as the slightest thing going wrong is so likely to be catastrophic and the team only ever has control of maybe half of the overall conditions. It just sucks that Jessi got a bad roll yet so many others managed to avoid getting so much as a scratch.
I live in Utah where the Bonneville salt flats are. You can legit take a freeway exit right onto the salt and dive as fast and as far as you dare. Just be sure to wash your rig after or it’s rust city
man, every time I see the Thrust SSC photo's or video's Im immediatly thrown back to watching the documentary Landspeed as a kid gives me chills coz in it, right after the record run clips, they showed some harrowing crashes. the brute force approach, the absolute iron nerve these people have to posess in order to even consider getting into one of these monster vehicles. Hoping that the next generation of land speed cars find their funding and go for the insane 1000mph There's the Australian rocket powered monster - Aussie Invader - that's being worked on here that I've been following the progress of for ages. Like Bloodhound, the Project needs money and Rosco Mcglashan(Australias fastest man on wheels going just over 800kph in 1994) has been using his project to help educate engineers here is Aus, bit of a win win there, the students get to work on a literal rocket car and he gets RnD and prototyping and building of new parts far cheaper than if he were trying to contract that work out to a company. I hope we get to see them both let loose and make successful runs at the 1000.
It depends on the temperature, air pressure, and humidity. They probably made those measurements and computed what the speed of sound would be at that place and time given the local conditions. The commonly cited 767 MPH is at 20 degrees C.
I have apparently been living under a rock. I had no clue the Jessi Combs had passed away during a land speed run. I had a huge crush on her back in the early 2000's. I watched her on myth busters, overhaul'n and xtreme 4x4. She was very talented and seemed as though she could build/accomplish anything. R.I.P. Jessi.
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Day 669 of asking Donut to bring old B2B back
mo b2b baby
Not just B2B bro. We want the old Donut programming! Up to Speed, B2B, Wheel House, Money Pit.
Nice
I respect when channels take different creative directions, but I don't know about this. I still love James, Nolan, Jeremiah and the whole crew, but ever since they left the "schedule" they had with b2b, wheelhouse, money pit, up to speed and D-List, the channel seems a bit lost.
Yeah, they’re never going to do that.
My grandpa was a driver and mechanic for Art Arfons. He worked on The Green Monster and a lot of Art's jet car projects, later passing away racing the Jetvette. I had no idea how instrumental The Green Monster had been in pushing the land speed record competition. Thanks for the great video!
Kyle G, get yourself a copy of Speed Duel: The Inside Story of the Land Speed Record in the Sixties by Samuel Hawley. Thi8s exceptional book covers the LSR duel between all of the drivers and teams of the 60's with deep dives into Art and Craig's efforts to outgun each other. Its a riveting book, one you won't put down. That your grandfather worked and drove for Art almost asures you'll learn more about him from this book. I got to meet Art during his tractor pulling days in the mi9d 80's, a company I worked for made ballistic composite body panels for BigFoot (we are based in St. Louis) and Art wanted to meet us to see a sample and discuss its use on his pulling rig. I always suspected he also wanted to see if the composite would be useful on his final LSR project that never came to fruition. Fun night at the old Checkerdome, got to meet a motorsports icon and get an inside look at pulling rigs, something totally off the wall for our team as our primary focus was SCCA road racing work at the time, besides the BigFoot stuff. PS: You can find the book used or via interlibrary loan at your local library, which is how I read it. Give your connection it might be nice if you can find a new or near new copy. Happy Reading!
Go to scarf and goggles channel mate he done a amazing video on art
You're a part of an awesome legacy, thanks for sharing
Rest in peace. She was a Mythbuster!
Before that she was co-host on a show called extreme 4x4. That was a good show.
Damn never heard about her passing, first Grant and then her 😢
@@Lukemasonmedia GRANT?!
@@GhostRyderFPV yeah. Brain aneurysm, I think last year (or '21. Everything's kinda run together in the past few years)
@@adamthompson4072 2020
"Have I broken the record?" are such badass last words lmao.
And not to mention his name was Seagrave, so it’s and appropriate way for him to die, making it even more badass
Bro died a true Chad
@@punisher3607 nah mf was Chadsworth Chaddington
6:04 My wife's grandmother was watching Malcolm Seagrave on Daytona Beach the day he broke the record and also on many other days. She & her friends actually met and talked with him, those being very different times than today.
I was a kid in the 60s when the jet cars came on the scene and the Beach Boys had a song about Craig Breedlove.
The Blue Flame was my favorite land speed record car and the last one to set the LSR at the Bonneville Salt Flats. Minor quibble: the driver's name was pronounced Gabelich, gab rhymed with cab, not gabe. And the Blue Flame used a rocket engine, not a jet. This was the only LSR record holder that was rocket-propelled. (The Budweiser Rocket came later and never set an official record.)
I sketched up a model of the Blue Flame I planned to build that would've used an actual model rocket engine. I planned on tethering it with eyelets onto a length of monofilament fishing line between pylons set some distance apart on an empty, level parking lot, like my high school's on a Sunday. I figured that might keep it on the ground and pointed straight. I drew the sketch over 50 years ago. One of these days...
I have always been fascinated by The Blue Flame ever since the record was set when I was a kid. I have seen the car in person two times at the Sinsheim Technical Museum in Germany.
Rip Jessi, thank you for everything you did with Mythbusters and Overhaulin'.
And xrreme
She also hosted All Girl Garage, which was given a really crappy timeslot but was a better show than many similar shows because he showed the sorts of things people actually did to their cars.
I loved her on mythbusters :-(
@@MikeHarris1984 xtreme4x4 was amazing. Built my CJ-2A a new frame & roll cage based on tricks I learned from that show.
Woman cant hang 😂
Mindforce goes so hard, love the shirt.
The Trust SSC will always be my favourite land speed record car because it introduced me to 3 things
1. land speed record racing events
2. jet powered cars
3. the first car to break the speed of sound
The car was so iconic that there were pictures of it on my Physics book when we learned about speed
First "car", sure. A heavily modified F-350 broke the sound barrier back in the mid-80s. It was disqualified from the record because it crashed into a mountain and never made the reverse direction run.
@@wagnerrp proof?
fun fact, most of the aerodynamics on the car was calculated by paper.
First car to *undisputedly* break the sound barrier, at least. The Budweiser Rocket was alleged to have broken the sound barrier in 1979, although there’s been a lot of controversy over that.
Difference is,you can actually hear the sound barrier being broke on ssc,s runs.
The water speed record is a whole other can of worms. It is one of the deadliest records out there. So many people died trying to break it. Because when you catch a bad wave at those high speeds, you and your boat just disintegrate. At high speeds, water is just like concrete, but the waves and your boat digging into the water mean you don't just scrape to a halt like on a nice road or salt flat, but bounce around and get torn apart. It's like when you drop into water from a great height.
would you guys mind translating the freedom units to metric (atleast in a small text at the bottom of the screen) for us europeans?
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1.6km in a mile, ~3L in a Gallon, we'll have to do the math coz we cant expect the Muricans to do it 👀
Yeah... don't think they will do that... been asked too many times during so many years.
Us Asians also use Metric.
@@zerosixteen.4644 literally everyone does besides americans, i've started using metric more often, just because i think it's a more universal and precise measurement compared to bald eagles per second, and cheeseburgers an hour
@@zerosixteen.4644 The whole world does except America
The amount of engineering that goes into the wheels of one of these things alone, so they don’t explode due to to rotational force, is an absolute feat in iteself
Just wanna point out, it wasn't Karl Benz himself, who took the car for a spin. It was his wife. She was the one who believed in his innovation. So happy woman's Day.
There is a past gas episode about it.
You should probably make me a sandwich.
The first trip in the Benz patent car was most likely be Carl Benz him self. So was the first time it was taken up to top speed. Those test drives where done all on his property the first drive in public roads was done by his wife birtha Benz.
No sir, not true. She was not the first to test it. She drove it in public first. Spread lies elsewhere.
aw yay
love that you guys are going back to this style of informatic videos
This always fascinated me. People spend a crap ton of money to build these cars, not to win races and money and fame, but to be Flash. This is great.
My respect for Nolan has multiplied ten times with that Mindforce shirt
Fantastic music taste Nolan, and your taste in cars is alright too lol
And the sassy pose at the the 04:40 -ish mark.
6:17
Imagine being a crab just chilling and a car blows past taking your house with it.
What an amazing story. I remember when I was a kid and the first thing I ever heard of about this kind of challenge was The Blue Flame. If I remember correctly it had 35,000 lb of thrust. I had no idea what this meant but wow, it was a huge number when I was 8 years old. The movie The World's Fastest Indian, was a great story about the drive people have to achieve these goals. Thanks again for the great story.
That is such a great movie, and you don't have to be a gearhead to enjoy it either, Sir Anthony Hopkins plays Burt Monro so charmingly.
I grew up during the "speed wars" between Art Arfons (whom I knew) and Craig Breedlove (whose car was sponsored by the company for which my father worked.) Those were good times all around.
Did you ever get the chance to ride in any of the cars?!
@@keytracer You're not the OP lmfao
Try scarf and goggles channel mate
crazy, the grandfather of the guy above you in the comments was a driver and mechanic for art arfons
I really love these history style videos. Makes you appreciate where we're at with cars now. Also RIP Jessi Combs a true legend 🫡
Hey Josh, what kind of car do you have??
@@Justin-ii3me I got a 2014 Tacoma with a 2 inch fox lift 😊🫡
Hitting over 140 sounds so easy, but it's a huge thing.
Having no aero, I hit 140 and realized I lost massive amounts of traction, and I was actually encountering lift.
Those that are pushing anything beyond that mark are amazing, but they're legit risking their lives. So massive props.
my 370z topped at 170 mph on a toll road. Definitely feels like floating on a cloud.
Yep, similar to why trains haven't really been able to break the 180 MPH mark for the past couple of decades. Whilst possible, evidently by speed records; at such high speeds even something as heavy as a bullet train starts to slowly turn into an aerofoil and become unstable, difficult to maintain speed and traction, etc. Only rare and highly advanced examples like the Shanghai Maglev can achieve insane speeds with relative stability. Air is quite the finicky fluid.
Napkin math alone makes you realize how much insane kinetic energy you're carrying. At those speeds air literally starts becoming thick. It's crazy.
Apparently my old s60 can reach almost 140.
I hit 130 in a 1998 GSR lancer. I could feel the front wheels starting to lift 😂. I never tried it again.
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I could've sworn I saw a video a year or two ago explaining that it would be nearly impossible to break the speed of sound in a ground vehicle due to the increasing amount of downward force required to prevent it from taking off. I had no idea it had already happened.
Surprised you guys didn't Mention Al Teague . He held the piston powered record for a while plus the wheel driven record. None of the jet engine stuff . He broke a 26 year old record In 1991 by going 409.8 . He is a land speed legend.
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@austinsims1734I've never heard or seen any of her clients complain of lost....I think she's just too perfect
I doubted it too before I gave it a try...and it was of no regret
That AI wrote ad-read was genius, that was the first ad I've watched all the way through on TH-cam in a long time
I agree.
Jessi was such a class act and is very missed. I’ll never forget her. I’m sure she’s hanging out with Ken now.
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I'm happy to see after brief googling that the wheel-driven category is still alive, and the current record is 458mph (737kph), set in 2001.
Not that I don't respect the thrust cars, but I like the engineering challenge wheel-driven comes with :)
Yep the Turbinator
Turbinator 2 set a national record of 482 mph in 2018. FIA is still 458
same
Not wheel driven is more like a plane that happens to touch the ground lol
Love the up to speed/wheelhouse vibe on this video. Good stuff
i missed a little node to old german driver legend Rudolf Caracciola, which drove 1938 the record for the flying mile (432.0km/h /268,432 MPH ) and flying KM /432.7km/h /268,86731 MPH ) on public roads, which was unbroken for 79 years (nearly 8 DECADES!) until a Koenigseggs Agera RS broke the record in 2017.
Thrust 2 and thrust ssc are in Coventry motor museum uk. My dad has sat in thrust 2 when he was a kid
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It's amazing the technological jumps we've made as a race in such a short time, so much innovation, but I here I sit in 2024 waiting for a better way to stop being an adult and responsibilities and things.
Also, judging by this graph at the end of the video and the law of averages, we're in a plateau phase. I'd say with today's innovations, we could start seeing 1000mph within the next 10-15 years.
Really interesting and informative video. I remember as a kid in the 90's my dad brought me into the food warehouse he was managing late one night and in the middle of the receiving dock area sat one of these jet powered salt flat land speed cars. It was so wild to see as a kid, I was about 13 at the time and it felt almost like a dream. I guess the guys needed a place to store it for a while on their way out west.
No it wasn't I knew all this and more from scarf and goggles channel
6:04 My wife's grandmother was watching Malcolm Seagrave on Daytona Beach the day he broke the record and also on many other days. She & her friends actually met and talked with him, those being very different times than today.
Thank you for the small tribute to Jessi. I got in touch with her about an off-road mountain bike project I was working on at the time after her days on Xtreme 4x4 and we kept in touch a while afterwards. It was heartbreaking to hear about her crash. Drive in Pease Jessi!
What kind of project was it? I'm an mtber and car guy and I've never heard of her in mountain biking before.
RIP Skip Hedrich, his racing career was far more than his custom made Streamliner “American Eagle” that is shown in this whole clip, he also raced Indy, and was also in Speed Boat racing and more. He is extremely well known at Bonneville, why didn’t you showcase his racing and part of getting to speed? It’s nice that at the very least you mentioned him as if it was just a Streamliner, that happens to be at the museum…he just passed 3 months ago. You should at least look more into the car and the man, than just using it as a prop. I watched him build that car as his grandson for decades.
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A sensitive note about the day this video is released on. Really good.
Love your work, Donut Crew. Speaking for your female audience!
Camille jenatzy was a Belgian and the first car to touch the 100k/h (62m/h) was too ! An electric car named "la jamais contente". And it went faster ! up to 105,8 k/h (65,75 m/h).
My dad was offered the opportunity to do some body work for Craig Breedlove on the Spirit of America Formula Shell LSRV in the mid to late 90's out in Rio Vista, CA. Of course, he took it, and he let me come with him. It was an amazing experience for both of us.
My Grandpa Rod worked on the Spirit of America as well! He was an Aerodynamics Engineer
@Jace Nice! Was it the same car? My dad works for a company called Scaled Composites which is responsible for some crazy aircraft over the years, most notably SpaceShip One/Two and White Knight and Stratolaunch AKA Roc. He does a lot of the precision body work and shaping of the parts and is great at what he does. I can't remember if he got involved with the Spirit of America team from the initial build or if he was brought in to help with the repairs. I must have been 8 or 9 at the time.
Craig Breedlove lives two houses down from me in Rio vista lol
That’s awesome man! My Grandpa Rod word on like fiberglass bodies for race cars and such. He was the guy who worked on the Aerodynamics of the Spirit of America which broke the land speed record and dipping our toes into the 400 mph range. I remember when I got to sit in one of the NASCARs at PHX raceway. Unfortunately, he has already passed away to some condition, but he is one of my many inspirations to become an engineer thanks to him. It’s my final year of High School and I have obtained a full ride scholarship to the University of Arizona. So far so good👍
@Jace That's awesome. Sorry to hear about your grandpa, but I'm sure he'd be proud to know he inspired you!
It should be stated that these are not cars. They are vehicles. Big difference.
We want the old Donut programming! Up to Speed, B2B, Wheel House, Money Pit.
what was will never be
what i would do to see some Bumper 2 Bumper episodes. Visit some crazy car builders. Big Fan JpPerformance from germany would love to show his crazy builds
you do realise this was absolutely no different than an up to speed right? Do they actually need to call it "land speed record, up to speed" for you to understand the content was absolutely no different. Your complaint is literally about a video title not being exactly as you want it lmao.
@@kermitthefragg it's same and different at the same time. same in the sense that it tells history about cars
Up to speed tells history about a specific model of car eg. rx7, GTR with James Pumphrey as the host telling iconic jokes like more powah baby. this video can be part of Wheelhouse as Nolan is the host
@@flameburstgt6503 my guy.....there are up to speeds on things other than car models....
Thought it was funny how Nolan randomly laying on his stomach out of no where. Comfortability level 💯!! Hah carry on! Love your guys videos!! ✌️
Jet records are awesome, but I'd like to know what the wheel-driven records have been for the past 60 years.
Look up Al Teague he held the piston record for a while. He also held the wheel driven record for a while until it was beat by a turbine engine driving the wheels. He broke the 26 year record in 1991 at 409.8mph . I believe he held the record for roughly 10 years . The wheel driven records and piston powered records are where it's at . Not sure who currently holds the record.
Just looked it up current wheel driven record is actually done by a twin turbo piston engine at 470mph . It was set in 2020 by George Poteet.
Go to scarf and goggles channel best land speed channel
@@matthewdurkee5673 Wild, I would've expected there to be advantages to a turbo-shaft engine for them to dominate.
Such a shame that nobody will get behind bloodhound. The project was well on track to break the SSC record and possibly crack 1000mph. The funding needed is, realistically in todays world, pretty small.
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Could you imagine the progress and how it felt back then. To be the first person to probably hit 60 must have felt awesoem
The HBO Max Documentary on Jessi Combs is amazing!!! Gotta watch everyone
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Petition for an Up to Speed on the legendary Ken Block 🙏🏻🙏🏻
No. More time needs to pass for it to become appropriate to do an episode on him. They absolutely will do one eventually, but at least a year needs to pass, and they’ll probably need to ask his family and Hoonigan for permission first.
Aarav Saini You've got my vote, mate 👍
@@PaleCentaur alright, good point, whenever the time is ripe
The history of cars is crazy to me. We barely had them for 150 years. That’s wild.
*A wise man once said "the best car is the one we made along the way"*
Yes.
Nolan repping the Mindforce shirt. Now I want to see a video of Nolsy crowdkilling
I'm building a boat that uses the same J34 jet engine that holds the current all time water speed record. Planning on breaking the pontoon speed record this summer. It's been fun and so is the history behind those times! Nice video!
Britain really dominated the land speed record in history...
I still miss seeing Jessi post on IG. Loved her so much. Watched her on TV for so long.
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4:40 Nolan looks like he's posing for a baby photo lol
Please bring back Money Pit
Yes please I miss it so much
God man, chill out the bmw wasn't even that long ago and they just finished the new hi low, give them time i guarantee there working on something like that, they just gotta have a break from project to project
They just finished the new money pit series, it was "how many Subaru engines can we buy for Hi-Low". That was probably a pretty big money pit for them, haha.
I love when John B does the ad segments ❤️
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So does this mean Wheelhouse is back? Please? I like when you guys do researched videos like this.
I've known about a lot of this stuff but what really surprised me was the Mindforce tee
Why are there separate male and female records? It makes sense in physical sports like swimming or skiing period but not in a speed record.
Because if it was just a record no one would care. It is not the fastest and one could argue they generally do not count if it is not finished.
Fun fact, the speed record on bike is held by Denise Mueller-Korenek who made 183.932 mph (296.009 km/h) at Bonneville salt flats behind a modified dragster as pacecar
So she's the fastets female and human on bicycle
what next? separate records for different ethnic groups? LGBQs? handicaps?
There's two records you forgot both are held by JCB which are fastest tractor at 103.6mph (166.72kph) and fastest diesel car when their dieselmax hit 350.092mph (563.42kph)
Hey Nolan we want B2B back come on man. 😅
9:00 + 9:50 I can't help but think these inspired the 1989 Batmobile. Maybe there are just limited ways you can design a chassis around a jet engine; but throw some fins + black paint and I'd expect to see Michael Keaton climb out. 🦇
When is the next High Low coming out?
Its important to separate out thrust vehicles, turbine powered and piston powered wheel driven vehicles. Danny Thompson who holds the piston engine/wheel driven LSR in Challenger II at 448.75, set in 2018. This is the same car, updated to modern standards that his father Mickey drove to the piston engine/wheel driven LSR back in 1960 at a speed of 406.60. That record had stood for 58 years! There has been a single run by Don Vesco in the Vesco Turbinator (turbine power/wheel driven) at 503 also in 2018. Vesco holds the current wheel driven (not the same as piston engine as his car was a turbine engine/wheel driven vehicle) at 4458.444, set in 2021.
Don Vesco passed away in 2002. Dave Spangler was driving the Vesco Turbinator in 2018. Don’s 458 mph record was set in 2001
Surprised you didn't mention the land speed record set by Henry Ford personally.
I love the ssc, even though it’s run was decades ago, I remember in school seeing photos of it in text books when talking about physics and such. An iconic piece of machinery to be sure. I can’t wait till I’m finally able to live through the next record, hopefully reaching that 1000mph goal
saying " have i broken the record ? " seconds before dying is legendary
Nolan rockin the Mindforce shirt, love to see it
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I was at Daytona 500 a couple weeks back, and at the Daytona Hotel lobby they've got Bluebird, one of the more famous landspeed record cars. And after admiring it for a good few minutes, and thinking about what it must have been like, and reading the plaque about the car and it's designer, Donald Campbell (guessing this vid is about him), and it's the same guy I was reading about several years ago who died while setting the water speed record. Dude was just a brilliant, fearless engineer. There's a museum up in the Lake District in the north of England about him and his vehicles. Man was real life Sonic. Gotta go fast.
Okay, that was a great video. I'd love you guys do more in-depth stories about amazing people in Motorsport.
I’m so glad Jessi got her much deserved mention
Your guys content is so damn good, its so great to see how much you guys have grown over the years.
Far better channel for land speed is scarf and goggles
I can't help but to get a little misty every time I see Jessi Combs pop up in media, she was such a badass, stellar role model for young women and a tortured artist who couldn't go a minute without creating something with her hands. Even with every precaution before every single run, land speed record racing is a roll of the dice every time a driver gets into the vehicle, as the slightest thing going wrong is so likely to be catastrophic and the team only ever has control of maybe half of the overall conditions. It just sucks that Jessi got a bad roll yet so many others managed to avoid getting so much as a scratch.
Day 1 of asking donut to bring back up to speed
I live in Utah where the Bonneville salt flats are. You can legit take a freeway exit right onto the salt and dive as fast and as far as you dare. Just be sure to wash your rig after or it’s rust city
Morning donuts 🍩 Thanks for another great video guys. Have a good day and don't work too hard.
My Grandpa Rod was an aerodynamics Engineer for the Spirit of America! He worked on fiberglass bodies for NASCARs and race cars!
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Female land speed record!? Wtf is that for!? The car does most of the work and Motorsport is the only sport that doesn't need gender separation...
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love and miss u jess. thank u for the tribute donut bois
Why the heck is there a women's land speed record!
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The news about jessi still makes me want to cry.
Day 1,692 of asking James to do an up to speed episode on Pagani Gaming’s Dad.
Next thing you know we are gonna use railguns to launch the cars
How is there a “female speed record” lol it’s a car bro like there’s no genetic advantage to just pushing a gas pedal..
the speed records are insane
but the G forces you would suffer at that speeds is also crushing
Oh no this channel is becoming woke as well lol. 😂😂😂
I love this keeps ads
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RIP Jessi. You got to do what others strived for. 😢 Wyotech 04’ Alumni.
Homie repping the mindfore merch, see ya in the pit!
This is great stuff! Super cool video!
Sick @mindforce shirt man.
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Hey guys I'm new to the car community,Can u all plz recommend some good car review and built channels??
love this kind of Donut video
man, every time I see the Thrust SSC photo's or video's Im immediatly thrown back to watching the documentary Landspeed as a kid
gives me chills coz in it, right after the record run clips, they showed some harrowing crashes. the brute force approach, the absolute iron nerve these people have to posess in order to even consider getting into one of these monster vehicles.
Hoping that the next generation of land speed cars find their funding and go for the insane 1000mph
There's the Australian rocket powered monster - Aussie Invader - that's being worked on here that I've been following the progress of for ages. Like Bloodhound, the Project needs money and Rosco Mcglashan(Australias fastest man on wheels going just over 800kph in 1994) has been using his project to help educate engineers here is Aus, bit of a win win there, the students get to work on a literal rocket car and he gets RnD and prototyping and building of new parts far cheaper than if he were trying to contract that work out to a company. I hope we get to see them both let loose and make successful runs at the 1000.
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@4:53 nah nolan we aint ignorin this shot bud 😭😂😂 a lil zesty if you ask me LOL
4:51 when you talk about something you love 😂
Rip to that lady what a hero
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I thought the speed of sound was 767 mph. He only went 763 mph. So he did not break the speed of sound.
It depends on the temperature, air pressure, and humidity. They probably made those measurements and computed what the speed of sound would be at that place and time given the local conditions. The commonly cited 767 MPH is at 20 degrees C.
You should do electric landspeed history, or motorcycles!!!
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11:26 from Highway Races to this?
Tokyo Xtreme Racer reference