SPEED SCOTLAND DRIVER Rick Pearson, bidding to break the 1000cc World Land Speed Record on the famous Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, had a narrow escape when his car caught fire at almost 250mph, writes Jim McGill.
Pearson — driving the Lesmahagow team’s 22in-wide, methanol-powered Streamliner named Flower of Scotland — was accelerating rapidly in the team’s latest attempt to break the current 313mph record.