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Is anyone following Speed Week?
Danny Thompson has Challenger 2 there, it's the 50th anniversary of the car running at Bonneville (Mickey Thompson first took it to Bonneville 50 years ago). In 2016 he set a record at 406mph. Yesterday his first run off the trailer was 446mph, and this morning I was listening to the live stream as he ran a 450 mph backup to yesterday's pass. That means the record in AA/FS is now 448.757 mph, and Challenger 2 is the world's fastest piston powered vehicle! On both runs he had to be out of it at some point, so I would believe there's still some left in it.
The last photo is from 2016, all the others are from the last two days.
More reading here: https://jalopnik.com/danny-thompsons-challenger-ii-set-the-piston-driven-lan-1828282279
Danny Thompson has Challenger 2 there, it's the 50th anniversary of the car running at Bonneville (Mickey Thompson first took it to Bonneville 50 years ago). In 2016 he set a record at 406mph. Yesterday his first run off the trailer was 446mph, and this morning I was listening to the live stream as he ran a 450 mph backup to yesterday's pass. That means the record in AA/FS is now 448.757 mph, and Challenger 2 is the world's fastest piston powered vehicle! On both runs he had to be out of it at some point, so I would believe there's still some left in it.
The last photo is from 2016, all the others are from the last two days.
More reading here: https://jalopnik.com/danny-thompsons-challenger-ii-set-the-piston-driven-lan-1828282279
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