Pioneering new car technology, developed in a Lesmahagow garage, will be the driving force behind an attempt by a Scots team to capture the 1000cc World Land Speed Record in Utah this week.
Pioneering new car technology, developed in a Lesmahagow garage, will be the driving force behind an attempt by a Scots team to capture the 1000cc World Land Speed Record in Utah this week.
The methanol-powered Flower of Scotland is prepared for the land speed challenge in Utah
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EXCLUSIVE By Jim McGill
The team, Speed Scotland, led by engineer Derek Palmer, has worked tirelessly since returning from a failed bid for the record on the famous Bonneville Salt Flats 12 months ago.
Today Palmer will oversee the first shakedown of the team’s 21in-wide, methanol-powered Streamliner car – christened Flower of Scotland – as it makes a bid to break the 12-year-old 313mph record tomorrow.
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