Driver Chris Raschke lost control about two and a half miles into a run and was treated by medical professionals at the scene ...

Tributes have been paid to veteran driver Chris Raschke, 60, who "lost control of his land speed vehicle" close to the 2.5 ...

Driver Chris Raschke died Sunday after crashing while trying to set a land speed record at an annual event on the Bonneville ...

A land speed racer competing at Utah's Salt Flats died Aug. 3 while attempting a speed record, event organizers said.

“At approximately 3:03 p.m. Mountain Time today, driver Chris Raschke, age 60, was attempting a speed record and lost control ...

A 60-year-old veteran of the land speed record community was killed while attempting a speed record run during a Bonneville ...

Chris Raschke lost control of his vehicle on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah during the annual "SpeedWeek" event on Aug. 3 ...

The current wind-powered land speed is 126.1 mph (202.9 km/h), set in 2009. Earlier this week, Team New Zealand officially unveiled its land speed record challenger, the Horonuku.

The North American Eagle weighs nearly 4 tons less than the twin-engine Thrust Supersonic Car that set the current land-speed record in the Black Rock Desert of northwestern Nevada on Oct. 15, 1997.

Land speed racing is one of the oldest forms of motorsport, and quite literally consists of going very, very fast in (ideally) a straight line. The higher the speed your car can attain, the better!

Land speed racer Charles Nearburg set a record with his vehicle the Spirit of Rett in 2010. The land speed car is named after his son, who died in 2005 and dreamed of racing a car at the ...

Bad news, land-speed record fans: the project to set a new 1,000mph (1,609km/h) speed record is yet again in serious doubt. On Monday morning, the Bloodhound Land Speed Record Project revealed ...