Speeding bullet
In 2014 a small team from the UK will dispatch a car to Africa with the aim of it speeding across the desert at 1000 mph. We find out how chemistry powers the car to success
In an unassuming, square brick warehouse, a team are building a car which will travel at 1000 miles per hour. Called Bloodhound, this 13 metre long machine is the brainchild of Richard Noble, a man who knows what it's like to be the world's fastest man, having driven Thrust 2 at a speed of 633 mph (not quite the speed of sound) in 1983. But it seems that it's not (just) a desire for insane speed that drives him.
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