BLOODHOUND SSC will aim to set a new land speed record of 800mph this year - exactly 19 years after the current record of 763mph was set. That goal achieved, it will have the 1,000mph target in its sights. Here, chief engineer Mark Chapman recounts to editor Brian Wall the journey taken to reach this historic moment "This was never about increasing the world land speed record by, say, 20 to 30 miles an hour, which is more or less what the increments have been in the past, but to really push it out of reach - to 1,000 miles per hour."
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