Salt not sand so it stings more

I want to see those titanium nuts

Heard there was a 300zx there. How fast did it go?

M Whitelaw rr

1/4 mile markers

Because they weren't. The distance was on 1 of the gauges.

700 ft per second, crazy.

Totally what I thought...wow. you cant touch the wheel ...holy shit

500 mph is easy, ask any racer wannabe. RIP Don Vesco! Bless Team Vesco, the Vesco Family, Dave, Glenn, and the rest of the crew!

Seems their is a lift of drifting involved. Narrow tires on a sketchy salt surface!

@@danmyers9372 There*

The mechanics are super immaculate timing for farther than before believed. The precision of each person involved from start to finish is putting up with what goes where before we witness the whole idea from here at this moment. I'm fascinated more and more with every part of this superb exhibition of concept, design, construct, action in full acceleration in deliberate space sought after by experts. WOW!!

I had to go rewatch to see it! That is incredible. 250mph still pushed back in the seat all the way up. Incredible

Meanwhile my dad be like: I'll be home in about 15 years 😢

What was that boom I heard at 2:46?

@@ProfessorRex1995 not sure because you don't break the sound barrier until around 770 miles per hour at sea level.

@@cryptodwayne5174 well whatever it was, it was awesome

​@@cryptodwayne5174 Not so much a barrier as a gradient, that's why the boom is lower pitch. Even going slow as 10kph will generate a pressure gradient.

@Bradley S. the inspiration of " *_gotta go fast_* "

Just for giggles they should have a soundtrack going "beep beep, beep,beep"

@@mpetersen6 Oh, I see YOU'RE OLD. Like me, ha ha.

@hạo gaming No 810.034334208 Km/h 1 mph (1.609344 kilometers per hour) x 503.332mph = 810.034334208 Km/h

@@DuBstep115 smartass its rounded

I'm thinking once the parachute is deployed you're more along for the ride. He did we he could trying to counter it but it pulled him right in, he probably shit himself lol.

Ran out of smooth salt only 7 to 10 miles of good course.

helps to slow him down.

He knew there was aTim Hortons on that direction.

jestertoo - It's called the crunchies.

...maybe coz you don't know the meaning of the word epic saludos

so just like a flight?

A plane that can't takeoff is only so impressive.

@Poly Bun That's why I was offering my congrats, because this one counts =) And agree with your comment below. Ed Sheadle "car" is a wingless modified F-104! Sadly, Ed passed away a few months ago.

orangelion03 458 miles per hour is not bad for an international record, but if they're done two runs on that day they could have got an f i a record of 500 miles an hour four-wheel drive on car.

@@RB747domme It doesn't qualify for any FIA category since it's part wheel driven & part thrust combo, Turbine vehicle is an SCTA Bonneville Nationals class only. FIA wheel driven records have to be an internal combustion engine.

NZ Salt Flats Racer Bluebird CN-7 held the FIA wheel drive record, and it is not internal combustion.

Around 2 G at at the hit and a solid 1.5 till stopped usually opening one or more additional on the slow down. Very stable when mounted correctly. Most of the fast cars are mounted correctly, see more problems with slower less on the ball teams

Kevin Carter I assumed it was parachute deploy, you could be right though.

was wondering the source of that also.. clearly heard a big WHOMP!

It can't be supersonic bang. The speed of sound is 1200 km/h (in this case the boom occures), but he achieved only ca 800 km/h.

No part of the rotating assembly of a gas turbine exceeds mach 1.

Must have hit a fruit fly

Science made him go that fast . Not your religious bullshit

green bean that’s normal. Cars will pull off to the left so the next car in line can run

We call that driving off into the "crunchies" or the "crinklies".... It can be interesting.....

Chris Turnblom in Brigham city?

Calvin Vesco Yup. Did you live in that house? Tom Purdue was the person I would visit. His mom taught at Foothill elementary around then. Seeing that thing after seeing it in the Guinness Book, I thought it was the coolest thing in the world. ...wanted to climb around in it when no one was there but..ya. My parents raised me to be better than that, I guess. lol

Yes that’s where I grew up!

facebook.com/194658847270689/photos/a.211164808953426/1175395305863700/?type=3 probably looked like this when you saw it

Wow, ya, that's it! Thanx for sharing this. After perusing some photographs it looks like some of you get to Washington county now & then. I live in St. George these days. I was just wondering, how does the team work? I assume most of it is volunteer work, right? I really know nothing about racing as far as what goes on inside a racing team. I met I guy once that's head mechanic for an F-1 team but that's totally different, big money, everybody working on the cars is getting paid usually. But back to my point... I just finished school for manual and cnc machining. I don't have any of my own machines to speak of yet but I'm working on it. I'm almost done repairing a Mori-Seki AL-2 Lathe that's had a control panel overall and trying to get a Mori SL-2 lathe online, both of which I'll have pretty much unlimited access to. Also, I still have permission to use the schools machines. So I was just wondering if you have the need for machining from time to time or if the team has that covered. It would be voluntary, of course. If needed, it would be a pleasure to do something like that. I need the experience too. Mind you I'm not a seasoned machinist so if you need tolerances in the + or - 2/10,000ths area you'd be better off with someone else but I'm getting pretty good at not screwing up when it has to be withing half a thousandth to a thousandth. I've worked in similar fields and I'm 42 so I'm not green, like an 18-year-old who just got into the industry. No offense to 18-year olds. Also, if the team is one that will take any help you can get like what I saw of that Spirit Of America team, I could appeal to Dixie Technical College for you (school I went to) they love stuff like this and the new campus is built right on the runway of the old St. George airport. ...well, the PREVIOUS airport anyway. The new airport is built on the actual "old" airport. Between that and them putting the the new Dixie Tech. campus on the other airport, now we don't have a place to drag race in the middle of the night. Mo&^%^ F%@*$rs!!!

You mad little feller ?

You have to get off the track to clear it for the next racer. There are turnouts drug at certain intervals but you really have to turn off when the speed of the car is correct in order to coast over to the return road if the car isn't still under power