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...d speed record''' differs from the [[land speed record|absolute land speed record]] in requiring that the vehicle be [[drive wheel|wheel-driven]]; thus, [[je ...rit of America]]''. Since then, no wheel-driven car has held the absolute record.

...was famous for setting three [[land speed record]]s and the [[water speed record]]. He was the first person to hold both the land and water speed records si ...lot. Major Segrave bragged that he would drive a car at over 200 miles per hour (320 km/h). People thought that the war had made him mad.

...organisation that runs recumbent races, including the human-powered speed record. ...'s position on the bike have also led to dramatic improvements in the hour record, but have also been a source of controversy (see [[Graeme Obree]]).

...the world speed record on [[Land Speed Record|land]] and on [[Water speed record|water]] at various times during the [[1920s]] and [[1930s]] using vehicles ==Land speed record==

|Official lap record for motorbikes || 1.30.993. set by Oddgeir Havnen sun 08/04/2002 |Unofficial lap record for motorbikes || 1.28.928. set by [[Kai Børre Andersen]] on sun 06/17/200

...covered at an average speed of 295.24 km/h (185.45 mph), breaking the old record by 12 km/h (7.5 mph). Production of the W12 Coupe was considered but is cur

...by the Legnano fans is that of Fausto Coppi setting the new record of the hour at the [[Vigorelli]] arena in [[Milan]], under enemy bombings. And of cours ...at the Olympics. Afterwards Baldini manages to break Coppi's record of the hour while riding a Legnano bike, a very special model with an extremely low wei

|Record time || 1.10.8251 |Record driver || [[Marcos Ambrose]]

...o Leon and another 21 minutes off the Leon to [[Durango, Durango|Durango]] record. In the process he climbed from 12th to 3rd position. ...racing season. It was 14 years old at the time. He averaged 64.4 miles per hour in a [[Lancia]] 3,300.

...tween 130 and 160 mph. The boats are from 20' up to 26'. The current speed record holder is Greg Hopp, son of Jerry Hopp, with a speed of 166. Unlimited Ligh ...epower to 50 horsepower with speeds from 30 miles per hour to 90 miles per hour. In the C Stock Class, the Yamato Motor Company engines used in [[kyōtei]

...generally prohibited except at designated checkpoints. There is a ninety hour time limit for the event, and the clock runs continuously. Many riders slee ...ours 22 minutes. Both riders had a number of flats that took as long as an hour to repair, but still enjoyed an obvious advantage over riders on solid tire

...ing close to breaking the 100 mile-an-hour barrier when he set a new speed record of 99.860 mph. Much faster than any other driver, Boillot would most likely

...the race when he won in 1999 at a speed of 45.75 kilometres per hour. The record for the most wins in Milano-Torino stands to the Italian [[Costante Girarde

...ight|[[ThrustSSC]], driven by [[Andy Green]], holds the current land speed record]] ...ord|motorcycle]]s fall into another, separate, class. The current absolute record holder is ''[[ThrustSSC]]'', a twin [[turbofan]]-powered car which achieved

==Career record== ...lso runner-up in the 1982 TT Formula One World series. He is a world speed record holder, after his efforts on the 500 Elf on a private, banked circuit in Fr

* Relating to the calculation of the hour: ...if a UTC clock is a drag one by changing your local computer clock: if UTC hour varies, it is a drag UTC clock.

|Record time || 2:18.128 |Record driver || [[Timo Bernhard]]

...ur. His quick pit stops were a factor in the victory. That season he won a record 10 times on oval, road and dirt tracks to capture the [[United States Auto ...o he tied Foyt as the winningest Indy 500 driver and broke brother Bobby's record as the oldest Indy winner.

...im an eighth victory, making him the most winning driver at the Le Mans 24 hour race with 8 wins. ==Racing record==

|Maximum speed || 90 kilometers per hour, average 65 km per hour ...w of Fine Arts in Turin in the winter of 1922. They built a [[scooter]] in record time with sophisticated engineering, was presented mounted on a bicycle fra

...Australian Grand Prix]]<br>[[Superbike World Championship]]<br>[[Castrol 6 Hour]] | Record time || 1:01.6718

...on some tracks. This speed often also makes it very dangerous. The safety record of sprint car racing in recent years has been greatly improved by the use o

...a three-part knockout format, with multiple cars on track. The qualifying hour is split into three 15-minute sessions, with seven-minute breaks in between ..., a ''pre-qualifying'' session was introduced for the teams with the worst record over the previous 6 months, including all new teams. Only the four fastest

|Record time:||1'45.108 |Record driver:||[[Kimi Räikkönen]]

|Record || from January 1968 - May 1973 |Record || from September 1967 - May 1989

...or the fifth time, [[Formula One]] driver [[Michael Schumacher]] holds the record for most victories at the '''Indianapolis Motor Speedway''' between the '50 ...s called the "junk formula" to allow more entries during the depression. A record of 42 cars started the 1933 500. From 1934 onward, 33 drivers started the 5

...rmer [[Formula One]] driver and five time [[24 Hours of Le Mans|Le Mans 24 hour]] winner. ...powered car. Pirro was driving the [[Audi R10]] Diesel when it completed a record 380 laps of the La Sarthe circuit. The team repeated the feat the following

|Record time || 1'18.739 |Record driver || [[Michael Schumacher]]

...). Record holders include the late [[David Jefferies]] who set a then lap record of 127.29 mph (204.81 km/h) in 2002. This was surpassed by [[John McGuinne

...shed the new World-wide Record of the hour (to 274,181 Km/h, [[established record]] in [[1937]]) and conquered the bay one in the European Championship of [[

...'''Driver'''!!'''Car Make'''!!'''Time'''!!'''Average Speed<br>([[Miles per hour|mph]])'''

|Record time || 1:29.1919 |Record driver || [[Hélio Castroneves]]

|Record time:||1'29.468 |Record driver:||[[Michael Schumacher]]

...[[Hans Herrmann]]/Larrouse and the Ford GT-40 of Ickx/Oliver. In the last hour, Ickx and Herrmann continuously leapfrogged each other, the Porsche being f In later years, Ickx won a record 6 times at the 24h race at Le Mans, becoming known as "Monsieur Le Mans". I

...d in all of Europe, that the English importer invited the Ancillotti to a "Record Day. It took place on runways of an old military airport of the RAF at Elvi ...th standing start (29" 343 average speed 12 kmh), exit speed of 176 km per hour.

|Record time || 241.426 [[miles per hour]] |Record driver || [[Gil de Ferran]]

...to test a car and driver's ability to be quick, but also to last over a 24-hour period. ...p increase efficiency and reliability. Cars which could not last the first hour without having to replace lost fluids were disqualified.

...o d'Italia's, an Olympic victory, a world time trial championship, an hour record, and many other international victories.

...1963. Their factory Ferrari achieved an average speed of 117.99 miles per hour over a distance of 2,832 miles. The victory was worth almost $20,000 in ...years to win the Grand Prix of Italy when he drove his Ferrari to a track record speed of

...th a record points haul, and won the 1990 [[24 hours of Le Mans|Le Mans 24 hour]] Race for [[Jaguar (car)|Jaguar]].

...ncorporates multiple regional styles of folk music as well as a burgeoning record industry that supports a wide variety of [[rock and roll|rock]], [[pop musi ...ariations on a few melodic [[phrases]], and a single song can last over an hour.

...and set the first track record with a 72 second, 50 mph lap. There were 24-hour endurance races in 1907 and 1908. Louis Disbrow won the first 100 mile even ...ldfield]]'s success at The Mile helped make him a legend. He set the track record in 1905 and raised his speed in 1910 to 70.159 mph in his "Blitzen Benz". I

''Main article'' [[Motorcycle land speed record]] ...d record for that class or type of bike for their name to be placed on the record books. See&mdash;[http://www.biker.co.nz/Reviews.asp?id=122] for an example

...Watkins Glen when owned by Briggs Cunningham. It later held the land speed record for a 750cc car. ...er installed a Mercury outboard in the Stanguellini and won the land speed record for a 750cc car at Daytona Beach. The car was then sold or traded to Herm B

Just like the [[VLN]] series with its 4 hour races, the 24h race is mainly aimed at amateurs, in order to fill a startin ...m''Jürgen Alzen Motorsport'' was only one lap down and have beaten the old record, too. They used a conventional gear box and a privately built 3.8L 500PS en

...new [[24 hours of Le Mans]] in France, the [[SPA 24 Hours]], a similar 24 hour endurance race, was run at the Spa track. ...52nd Grand Prix at Spa in [[2001]], surpassing [[Alain Prost]]'s all-time record of 51 wins. Schumacher also won his seventh World Drivers' Championship tit

...led a [[dynamometer]] car coupled behind the locomotive keeps a continuous record of the [[drawbar]] pull exerted, and the speed. From these, the power gene ...ead. Watt determined that a horse could turn a mill wheel 144 times in an hour (or 2.4 times a minute). The wheel was 12 feet in radius, thus in a minute

...often used when an engine is shut down for extended periods (more than an hour) in cold weather to reduce startup time and engine wear. ...ypes of racing where these drawbacks are less severe, such as [[land speed record]] racing. [http://www.cumminsracing.com/ Diesel engined dragsters] even exi

...ncorporates multiple regional styles of folk music as well as a burgeoning record industry that supports a wide variety of [[rock and roll|rock]], [[pop musi ...ariations on a few melodic [[phrases]], and a single song can last over an hour.

...966 Amon continued to race for McLaren in CanAm, but, with an unimpressive record of only two points from twenty Grand Prix starts, he failed to secure a ful ...[Gulf]] [[Ford GT40]] Mark II at the 1966 [[24 heures du Mans|Le Mans]] 24-hour race, spearheading a formation finish. He subsequently received an invitati

...alone and looked like the winner but made a shifting mistake in the final hour which handed victory to a [[Mercedes-Benz]] 300 SLR. The most successful marque in the history of the 24 hour race is [[Porsche]], with 16 overall victories (including seven in a row, f

...accelerate from 0-60&nbsp;[[Miles per hour|mph]] (96&nbsp;[[Kilometres per hour|km/h]]) in 2.3&nbsp;seconds, on a gravel road. However, the season soon too ...elica GT-Four]]. Kankkunen moved to Toyota for the 1993 season and won his record fourth title, with Toyota taking its first manufacturers' crown. Frenchman

...in both naturally-aspirated and supercharged form, and winning a likewise record-holding 18 consecutive years between 1947 and 1964. For 2005 the start of Indianapolis was pushed back one hour from noon to 1 p.m. [[Eastern Daylight Time]] to improve national televisio

...ave been forgotten; for example in [[Athens]] in 1896, they attempted a 12-hour race, and in [[London]], in 1908, one of the events was a [[sprint]] for 60 At the time, ''Cycling Record'' wrote that he set off "as fast as lightning," overtook the favourite, Fra

...behind Ayrton Senna's [[McLaren]]-Honda. Mansell, on fresh tyres, set lap record almost two seconds quicker than Senna's and closed from 5.2 to 1.9 seconds ...th win at the [[1993 Monaco Grand Prix|1993 race]], breaking Graham Hill's record for most wins at the Monaco Grand Prix, [[Damon Hill]] commented that "If m

...Cagno]] won the inaugural 1906 race in nine hours, averaging 30 miles per hour (50 km/h). ...s not possible on the tight and twisty roads. [[Helmut Marko]] set the lap record 1972 in an [[Alfa Romeo T33]] at 33'41 min or an average of 128,253 km/h. T

...cond faster than anyone else to catch up with the McLaren. He also set the record of being the only driver to win a race from the pit lane which he did in th ...broke into tears when asked about his feelings on equaling Ayrton Senna's record of 41 race wins.

...nto the top three coming from 32nd during the night and establishing a lap record at 131.375&nbsp;mph (211.4&nbsp;km/h). Just before 05:30 Phil brought the l ...Linge]]; the roadster was equipped with three 35&nbsp;mm movie cameras to record the race for Steve Mac Queen's movie "Le Mans".

...on up with a record four straight pole positions. He also achieved another record that year by being the first driver to lap the entire grid at the [[Grand P ...urs of Daytona was 0.167 seconds, making it the closest finish in Rolex 24 hour history.

...of the [[1984 Dallas Grand Prix]]. The 1984 Grand Prix was the hottest on record, and after 2 hours of driving in 104°F (about 40°C) conditions Mansell fa ...his wife, Roseanne. Unperturbed by Piquet's mind games, Mansell went on to record five Grand Prix wins in 1986 and also played part in one of the closest fin

Alboreto competed in eighty Grands Prix for Ferrari, which established a new record. It stood until the [[1995 Argentine Grand Prix]], when it was surpassed b ...the end of the season, he decided to retire from Grand Prix racing, with a record of 194 starts and five Grand Prix wins to his name.

...e taking eight victories and the world championship in 1996. He went on to record the [[Jordan Grand Prix|Jordan]] team's first ever win at the [[1998 Belgia ...blame. Hill questioned why Schumacher was "suddenly doing nought miles an hour", while a majority of Schumacher fans described it as a "stupid move" by Hi

Other major composers and record-producers include [[George Martin]], [[Bill Conti]], [[Michael Kamen]], [[M ...Thunderball" appears. A new song was composed and recorded in the eleventh hour titled "Thunderball", performed by Tom Jones. The melody of "Mr. Kiss Kiss

...o finished second to secure his second successive championship, adding the record of the youngest man to secure back-to-back titles to his ever-increasing li ...2005-spec V10s. Northampton-based engine builder Cosworth has an enviable record of success with V8 engines. It claimed to have made further history by beco

...ot to mention the most successful: the team holds nearly every Formula One record. As of 2004, the team's records include fourteen World Drivers Championship ...th American Racing Team, who raced Ferrari's in America) won the famous 24 hour race of the same name. As well, the [[Ferrari 250 GTO|250 GTO]]'s famous ac

...elaborate with each film. ''The World Is Not Enough'' ([[1999]]) holds the record for the longest, running more than 15 minutes, whereas most are under five. ...d States dollar|USD]] for the rights to adapt ''Casino Royale'' into a one hour [[television]] adventure as part of their ''[[Climax! (television)|Climax!]

...elaborate with each film. ''The World Is Not Enough'' ([[1999]]) holds the record for the longest, running more than 15 minutes, whereas most are under five. ...d States dollar|USD]] for the rights to adapt ''Casino Royale'' into a one hour [[television]] adventure as part of their ''[[Climax! (television)|Climax!]

...Josef Fischer]], the only German to have won. Only four finished within an hour. Garin would have come second had he not been knocked over by a crash betwe ...ure on this stretch, which cost him the chance to contest the sprint for a record equalling fourth victory.

...eim]] on June 12, [[1817]], he covered 13 km (eight miles) in less than an hour. The wooden draisine weighed 22 kg (48 pounds), had brass bushings within t ...such [[Sam Whittingham|vehicle ]] currently holds the human powered speed record of 82mph on level ground.

...hed [[Rome]] in just 7 hours 35 minutes 30 seconds, which was more than an hour quicker than two years earlier. ...l|Mondial]]s of greater [[engine capacity]], establishing a Thompson track record by two tenths of a second that would remain unbeaten for a year and a half.

Beginning almost an hour after ''Casino Royale'', Bond is then involved in a car chase in [[Siena]], ...well-publicized legal issues in the preceding weeks made her "not ready to record any music" at that time. It was announced [[Jack White]] of [[The White Str

...(electronic) music scene with independent labels, cult-status underground record stores, a vibrant club scene, multitudes of street performers and a governm ...travel from the airport to any Viennese destination (free transfer for one hour; you don't need to buy further tickets for Viennese bus, subway or tram lin

...on a regular basis on the open road, covers over 1200 km and imposes a 90-hour time limit. ...e banned from bike races in 1934 after [[Marcel Berthet]] set a new [[hour record]] in his ''Velodyne streamliner'' (49.992 km on Nov 18, 1933). [[Track bicy

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