Subscribe to The Times
Home > Bloodhound

Bloodhound

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 project still alive and now aiming for first carbon zero land seed record

Bloodhound SSC project is alive, and going green

A cat may have nine lives but one dog is proving just as resistant to death: the Bloodhound project is still "very much alive", and going green.
Published 01 July 2022
Bloodhound LSR

Bloodhound LSR

The Bloodhound land speed record attempt is “very much still a live project,” according to outgoing CEO, Ian Warhurst.
Published 20 August 2021
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
This is how a Bugatti Chiron and F1 car compare against Bloodhound LSR in a drag race

Video: Hatchback v Chiron v F1 car v Bloodhound

A new video shows the relative acceleration of the Bloodhound jet car versus a family car, hypercar and F1 racer.
Published 01 April 2020

Time is fast running out for land speed record

After financial difficulties and being rescued by a private investor at the end of 2018, the Bloodhound record is once again in jeopardy.
Published 05 March 2020
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
Bloudhound SSC car will make its 1,000mph land speed record attempt in autumn 2019

Bloodhound land speed record project saved

Shortly after being declared insolvent, the Bloodhound land speed record project is back on track thanks to the support of a private investor.
Published 17 December 2018
Bloodhound land speed record project to be liquidated

Bloodhound speed record project to be liquidated

The Bloodhound land speed record project has been shut down after attempts to find a financial backer failed.
Published 07 December 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
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