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• Henry Segrave
  ...ed record]]. He was the first person to hold both the land and water speed records simultaneously. He was the first person to travel at over 200 mph (320 km/h ...[[Miramas]] in [[France]], he retired from racing to concentrate on speed records.
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• Wheel-driven land speed record
  ...en land speed record''' differs from the [[land speed record|absolute land speed record]] in requiring that the vehicle be [[drive wheel|wheel-driven]]; thu Until 1963, the absolute land speed record holder was always a wheel-driven car. The first jet-car to exceed t
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• Malcolm Campbell
  ...gained the world speed record on [[Land Speed Record|land]] and on [[Water speed record|water]] at various times during the [[1920s]] and [[1930s]] using ve ==Land speed record==
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• Motorcycle land speed record
  ...test speed achieved by a [[motorcycle]] on land. It is standardized as the speed over a course of fixed length, averaged over two runs in opposite direction ...record|absolute land speed record]]s, the last at 526.277mi/h. While such records are usually validated by the [[Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile]
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• List of vehicle speed records
  [[Image:ThrustSSC.jpg|thumb|250px|right|ThrustSSC, which holds the land speed record]] The following is a '''list of speed records''' for various categories of vehicles.
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• Victor Hemery
  ...[[Louis Chevrolet]], and [[Ferenc Szisz]]. That same year he set a [[land speed record]] of 109.65 mph (175.44 km/h) on December 30, 1905 at [[Arles|Arles ...nah, Georgia]]. The following year, on November 8, 1909 he set another new speed record at [[Brooklands]] of 202.691 km/h driving the famous "Blitzen Benz"
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• Fastest production car
  ...], the world's fastest street-legal car, with an officially registered top-speed of 408.5 km/h. ...t the base model of many of the vehicles listed is vastly lower in maximum speed than limited edition or very rare production models, which may in themselve
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• Land speed record
  ...humb|right|[[ThrustSSC]], driven by [[Andy Green]], holds the current land speed record]] ...ed. There are numerous other class records for cars, and [[Motorcycle land speed record|motorcycle]]s fall into another, separate, class. The current absolu
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• Racing
  ...|right|250px|Air '''racing''':Hungarian aerobatics pilot Peter Besenyei at speed in his Extra 300 at an air race in England]] ...s [[traversing]] some [[distance]], but it can be any other task involving speed.
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• International Motorsports Hall of Fame
  |[[land speed record]]s |align="left"|Land speed record breaker
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• OMC
  ...bikes were the ''Wild Cat Elite'' H20, a liquid cooled turbine with a four speed transmission and a front brake disc, the ''Wild Cat Tire'' Max-L, with the ...] of [[Diatto]] origins [[Grotteria | Grottesi]], decided to return to his land native to an industrial high-tech implant that could shake the stagnation o
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• All wheel drive
  ...] (angular force) evenly, while distributing [[angular velocity]] (turning speed) such that the average for the two output shafts is equal to that of the in ...l be matched, torque goes to zero, speed at the rear goes to zero, and the speed at the front goes to double what it should be... making the left front whee
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• Electric car
  ...rgy]] used to power the motors may be obtained from a direct connection to land-based generation plants, as is common in electric trains; from chemical ene ...man named [[Robert Davidson]] built an electric locomotive that attained a speed of four miles an hour. In [[England]] a patent was granted in 1840 for the
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• Hellé Nice
  ...at the racetrack in [[Montlhéry]] in the process setting a new world land speed record for women. Capitalizing on her fame, the following year she toured t ...our other women, Hellé Nice drove for ten days and ten nights breaking ten records that still stand to this day. For the next two years, she competed in rally
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• Aermacchi
  ...during the war. ''Tonti'' designed a 50 cc motorcycle that broke the land speed record for that displacement class. The bikes produced by ''Aermacchi'' wer ...jpg|thumb|right|220pxs|'''The [[LinTo]]-Aermacchi 75 which established the speed record on the ''Autostrada dei Laghi'' or Street on the Lakes''']]
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• Electric vehicle
  *from a direct connection to land-based generation plants, as is common in [[electric train]]s and [[trolleyb ...an electric generator is usually a more practical converter for this high speed rotational energy than a mechanical gearing system would be.
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• Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca
  Monterey Festival of Speed<br><br> ...rformance driving schools that allow the public to drive their own cars at speed.
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• Luigi Colani
  ...widescale basis for record speed on land, water and air and economy world records in Utah, USA
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• Stanguellini
  The 1960s also were the years of the six Monza speed records set with the Guzzi powered Colibri Stanguellini, bodywork of which was desi ...ss at Watkins Glen when owned by Briggs Cunningham. It later held the land speed record for a 750cc car.
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• Junior
  ...documents, there is no trace. "Auto" in 1904 stands out from the earliest records, publicity of the '''Fabbrica di Automobili G.G.F.lli '''[[Ceirano]]'''''', ...t to make the big tourism, cars need a robust and simple that not having a speed that it has a very great ease of operation and repair and present the least
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