THE LAST LAND SPEED RECORD?

摘要

As Wing Commander Andy Green blasted across Black Rock Desert in Thrust SSC, businessman Ian Warhurst avidly downloaded daily updates of the project's thrilling progress. Today, 23 years after Thrust hit 1,228km/h (763mph) and broke the land speed record, Yorkshireman Warhurst is in charge of another British attempt to break the record with Green in the driver's seat "I never realised that I was going to be doing what I'm doing," says the new CEO. The former owner of turbocharger company Melett stepped in to save the Bloodhound car "from the skip" and give new life to the project at the end of 2018. "I took it on board because I couldn't believe that after 10 years in the making, and all that money spent on it - and, more importandy, the inspiration the project had given to getting people into engineering - it would just be kind of thrown in the skip, that just didn't seem right," he says.