The Evolution of Land Speed Records 

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.

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.

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.

Before that she was co-host on a show called extreme 4x4. That was a good show.

Name someone else who had to be forced into maternity leave, because the doctor said 'no explosions, you'll hurt the baby'...

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)

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 😂

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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

Edit: 3.7L to a gallon*** 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

I agree.

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

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.

And the sassy pose at the the 04:40 -ish mark.

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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.

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@@PaleCentaur alright, good point, whenever the time is ripe

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

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Hey Josh, what kind of car do you have??

@@Justin-ii3me I got a 2014 Tacoma with a 2 inch fox lift 😊🫡

Except where they screwed up blue flame was a rocket car not jet

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

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?

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....

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.

No it wasn't I knew all this and more from scarf and goggles channel

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.

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.

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!

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Yes.

Far better channel for land speed is scarf and goggles

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.

Don Vesco passed away in 2002. Dave Spangler was driving the Vesco Turbinator in 2018. Don’s 458 mph record was set in 2001

Okay, that was a great video. I'd love you guys do more in-depth stories about amazing people in Motorsport.

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.

Yeah, right now it feels like "low powa baby", I wish they'd bring it back too...

@@majesticfirebird2310 Totally agree 👍 it feels like it’s completely different channel, that it used to be…😔 And guess what… it’s not the last time you saw my comments on that list…😂😂

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clearly just an effort to stretch the video out for more watch time by including ""records"" that are far below the actual records just because it is performed by a person of a different gender

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