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Land Speed Record Tag
mike newman with porsche 911 - land speed record for blind driver

Mike Newman with Porsche 911 - Land Speed Record for Blind Driver

Mike Newman is a former bank manager, who set a new land speed record for a blind driver. Mike is 52 years old and currently lives in Manchester, UK. He was born with glaucoma and lost his sight aged 8, but that didn’t stop him at all.Mike Newman has reached the impressive speed of 300 km/h (186 mph) at Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground in Leicestershire with a Porsche 911. Of course, he received radio assistance with the necessary directions that had to be followed in order to claim the record and

world land speed record with electric car - 328.5 km/h

World Land Speed Record with Electric Car - 328.5 km/h

Autocar has published a video showing converted Le Mans race car doing over 200 mph (320 km/h). The spectacular in this video is that the race car is powered by pure electricity, which means that it set a new world land speed record for a sub-1000kg electric car. The average speed is 328.5 km/h (204.185 mph). The record is set by Lord Paul Drayson, who obviously had a lot of trouble keeping the car on the track. Such speeds are extremely dangerous even in prepared super sports cars li