> It is not even a car. Originally land speed records had the power delivered at the wheels. Strapping a second hand jet engine and some Norwegian rocket to som

> It is not even a car. Originally land speed records had the power delivered at the wheels. Strapping a second hand jet engine and some Norwegian rocket to some glorified hand-cart is cheating. Yeah, this is a major thing that dampens the interest in the record for me. At this extreme the land speed record seems rather arbitrary, because it's (huge blundering oversimplification) a cart with wheels driving across a desert plain powered by a rocket - that doesn't really relate to anything I can imagine being useful in cars in the real world. When it comes down to it, I don't really care whether the wheels are on the ground or not when the top speed is reached, because the fact that they are doesn't seem to be meaningful in terms of what that means for improvements we'll see in everyday car tech. I'm probably wrong, knowing nothing about the engineering behind this, and there's probably a ton of spin-off tech advancements for cars that are pushed forward by projects like this, aerodynamics for one. Or maybe it's just one of those 'why did you climb the mountain? because it's there' type projects where the end is the most important thing and some people will be excited by accomplishing the challenge, and others not so interested.