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The Bloodhound Land Speed Record team is looking for a new driver

Published 07 November 2023
By Will Dron
The owner of the Bloodhound Land Speed Record (LSR) project has launched a search to find a new driver.
Bloodhound LSR land speed record project up for sale

Bloodhound Land Speed Record project up for sale

The Bloodhound Land Speed Record project is seeking a new owner in a last-ditch attempt to save the 800mph endeavour.
Published 25 January 2021
Andy Green interview - Bloodhound LSR 628mph

Andy Green Q&A: What it's like to drive Bloodhound

The Bloodhound LSR team is packing up after a testing programme that saw Andy Green pilot the car to 628mph.
Published 18 November 2019
Bloodhound LSR October 2019 Testing Hakskeen Pan South Africa

Bloodhound land speed record car reaches 461mph

The Bloodhound rocket car is one step closer to setting an all-new land speed record, after going faster in testing than it's ever gone before.
Published 01 November 2019

Bloodhound heading to Africa for shakedown

The British Bloodhound land speed record car is another step closer to its 1,000mph run after the team behind it confirmed high speed testing wil
Published 10 July 2019

Bloodhound land speed record car back on track

The Bloodhound land speed record car has been given a new lease of life and is back on track to break the sound barrier.
Published 22 March 2019
Bloodhound 1,000mph land speed record project enters administration

1000mph speed record project enters administration

The fate of the Bloodhound SSC 1,000MPH land speed record has been put into doubt, as the company running the project has entered administration.
Published 15 October 2018
Bloodhound SSC car will make its 1,000mph land speed record attempt in autumn 2019

Bloodhound SSC will attempt 1,000mph in 2019

Richard Noble has had it with delays. In a rousing statement sent out this morning, the Bloodhound SSC Project Director announced...
Published 16 May 2018
Retirement? I'd rather design a supersonic car, says Bloodhound engineer Ron Ayers

The OAP designing the Bloodhound supersonic car

At 85, Ron Ayers enjoys making stained glass windows and drives a Volkswagen Golf at a sensible, “subsonic speed”. He is also the aerodynamicist...
Published 04 November 2017
From 0 to 200mph in 7sec: Bloodhound land speed record car's first jet-powered run

200mph in 7sec: Bloodhound makes first run

With a thunderous shriek that raised heads five miles away Wing Commander Andy Green today lit the afterburner on the world’s most ambitious car.
Published 26 October 2017

Me and my motor: Andy Green, OBE, on breaking the land...

He may be one of the world’s most celebrated drivers, but Andy Green is not strictly a “car person” — in the dentist’s waiting room he will...
Published 03 March 2016
The Sunday Times Driving Placeholder

Wing Commander Andy Green and his world land-speed...

The RAF pilot is determined to break his own record next year. While his jet-rocket car is being fine-tuned, he’s honing his skills in a tiny racing...
Published 21 September 2015
The Sunday Times Driving Placeholder

Bloodhound SSC to commence runway trials in November

More than seven years after the project was announced, the Bloodhound SSC supersonic rocket car will blast off for the first time on November 17...
Published 15 June 2015