SPEED SCOTLAND’S 1000cc World Land Speed Record bid hit problems on Sunday when first driver Rick Pearson found himself travelling at 190mph with no airbrakes — that’s parachutes to you and me — and then, at 220mph on the next run, the engine suffered a technical failure.
In his latest update from the Bonneville Salt Flats, Rick explains what went through his head when he realised he couldn’t slow down … and the self-preservation which kicks in when there’s “a thousand gremlins” trying to destroy the engine.