Land speed racing

Land speed racing is a form of motorsport.

Land speed racing is best known for the efforts to break the absolute land speed record, but it is not limited to specialist vehicles.[1]

A record is defined as the speed over a course of fixed length, averaged over two runs (commonly called "passes").[2] Under current FIA rules, two runs are required in opposite directions within one hour, over a timed mile and a new record mark must exceed the previous one by at least one percent to be validated.[3] Records are set in either the flying kilometre or flying mile.[4] Motorcycle land speed racing requires 2 passes the same calendar day in opposite directions over a timed mile/kilo for AMA National Land Speed Records while FIM Land Speed World Records require two passes in opposite directions to be over a timed mile/kilo completed within 2 hours.[5]

  1. ^ Land Speed Racing newsletter (retrieved 2 December 2018).
  2. ^ Regulations for Record Attempts - CHAPTER 2 Archived November 23, 2010, at the Wayback Machine - FIA
  3. ^ "§105. Conditions for the recognition of international or world records". Sporting Code: Chapter 7: Records. FIA. Archived from the original on 21 December 2008. Retrieved 16 October 2008.
  4. ^ Ferguson, George. "The Run Was A Natural Gas". Sports Illustrated November 09, 1970. Archived from the original on 14 October 2013.
  5. ^ "Rules & Records". Bonneville Motorcycle Speed Trials. 23 February 2014. Retrieved 2 September 2019.