RE: JCB Dieselmax breaks the record

[dmitsi]

My bad. one run was 365, average of 350.09mph.

[simonrockman]

They might get another 10mph if they could find a white Astramax to tailgate.

[dmitsi]

simonrockman said:

They might get another 10mph if they could find a white Astramax to tailgate.

I was thinking one of those ebay resistors might sort them out.

[Pigeon]

Rock on, this is cool. 365mph by diesel power... gives my bike project a hard target to beat

[midgster]

FortJefferson said:

dmitsi said:

New record is 364mph

What I find quite humbling, is that this speed is very fast to most/all of us, but to Andy Green it must seem like a walk in the park after 765mph in Thrust 2.

It was Thrust SSC...Thrust 2 was driven by Mr noble himself.

[Ahonen]

midgster said:

Thrust 2 was driven by Mr noble himself.

"For Britain...and for the hell of it!"

One of my all time favourite quotes.

[Thom]

article said:

this is British engineering at its absolute best. We now have the fastest diesel in the world

Is it really ?

[ridds]

Thom said:

article said:

this is British engineering at its absolute best. We now have the fastest diesel in the world

Is it really ?

Why is it not?

[MidnightDriver]

CONGRATS!!!! nuff sed

[FortJefferson]

midgster said:

FortJefferson said:

dmitsi said:

New record is 364mph

What I find quite humbling, is that this speed is very fast to most/all of us, but to Andy Green it must seem like a walk in the park after 765mph in Thrust 2.

It was Thrust SSC...Thrust 2 was driven by Mr noble himself.

Edited origional post, thanks.

[Thom]

ridds said:

Why is it not?

Well, it's only a land speed record.
Perhaps I'm miserably missing the point, sorry.

[busta]

This is such good publicity for JCB. I will be driving a new 444-engine powered JCD Loadall soon and its humbling to think that the standard 130hp oil burner can be transformed into a beast capable of over 350 mph (albeit with 2 of them, lots of money etc.). I'm sure loading lorries wouldnt be half as tedious with a 750 hp forklift...

[pesmo]

Busta, JCB will probably send all users a sticker to put on the side to say that you are driving the worlds fastest diesel

Edited by pesmo on Wednesday 23 August 21:06

[busta]

Yeah, seeing that on the back window would really p*ss off the poeple held up behind me

[parryglenn]

Excellent! Well done to JCB - I look forward to being stuck beind a loader at 20mph with that "Worlds Fastest Diesel" sticker.
Though why isn't this story playing as headline news? I know there is a lot of other stuff going on, but a positive story in the middle wouldnt hurt would it? The British are too quick to embrace failure and misfortune and not quick enough to celebrate success. We need to be more like the yanks [though ever so slightly more and only in this one single way alone].

[CivPilot]

Great quote by the JCB land speed project boss bloke:-

"We were aiming for 350mph so Andy actually went too fast by 0.092mph. But we will let him off"



Top work

[thinfourth]

The wheel driven landspeed record is 458mph So getting 350mph is even more impressive

[pesmo]

And that was a turbine. The conventional internal combustion engine record is just under 410mph

Edited by pesmo on Thursday 24th August 11:23

[DJC]

pesmo said:

And that was a turbine. The conventional internal combustion engine record is just under 410mph

Edited by pesmo on Thursday 24th August 11:23

Go on Greeny...you know you want to!

As to THOM and the "why bother?" bit...did you not see the Richard Noble quote?

For Britain and the hell of it!

and obviously because Andy Green has the spirit of Malcolm, Donald and Seagrave flowing through his blood.

Sports Personality of the Yr? Andy "King of Speed" Green!

[lockup]

Heard Andy Green on the radio yesterday. He said there's more to come from the car - it's got a 6 speed box and they did the 350+ runs in 5th. Trouble is they've reached the limits of the tyres.