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• Wheel-driven land speed record
  ...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.
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• Henry Segrave
  ...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.
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• Track cycling
  ...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]]).
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• Malcolm Campbell
  ...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==
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• Arctic Circle Raceway
  |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
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• W12
  ...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
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• Legnano Bike
  ...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
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• Sandown Raceway
  |Record time || 1.10.8251 |Record driver || [[Marcos Ambrose]]
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• Piero Taruffi
  ...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.
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• Hydroplane racing
  ...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]
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• Paris-Brest-Paris
  ...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
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• Georges Boillot
  ...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
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• Milano-Torino
  ...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
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• Land speed record
  ...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
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• Ron Haslam
  ==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
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• Coordinated Universal Time
  * 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.
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• Miller Motorsports Park
  |Record time || 2:18.128 |Record driver || [[Timo Bernhard]]
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• Al Unser
  ...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.
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• Tom Kristensen
  ...im an eighth victory, making him the most winning driver at the Le Mans 24 hour race with 8 wins. ==Racing record==
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• Ollearo
  |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
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