Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah: since the 1920s the spiritual home of the land speed record. Construction machinery maker JCB came here last month to take the FIA world record for diesel cars, set 33 years ago at 235.756 mph by American Virgil W. Snyder in a Thermo King streamliner. The JCB Dieselmax, an elegant yellow projectile powered by a brace of heavily modified JCB 444 engines and piloted by Wing Commander Andy Green, set a new Bonneville record of 317.021mph during Speed Week and followed up by breaking the world record for the measured mile on 22 August with a two way average of 328.767mph. Then in the cool of morning the next day the car tore across the desert again to lift the record to 350.092mph.
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机译：犹他州的邦纳维尔盐沼：自1920年代以来，陆上速度记录的精神家园。工程机械制造商JCB上个月来到这里，打破了FIA柴油车的世界纪录，这是33年前美国人Virgil W. Snyder在Thermo King Streamliner上以235.756 mph创下的。 JCB Dieselmax是一枚优雅的黄色射弹，由一架经过大量改装的JCB 444发动机提供动力，并由联队司令安迪·格林（Andy Green）驾驶。在“速度周”期间，邦纳维尔创造了317.021英里/小时的新纪录，随后又打破了世界纪录8月22日，平均时速为328.767英里/小时。然后在第二天早晨的凉爽中，汽车再次撕裂了沙漠，刷新了纪录，达到了350.092mph。
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