Silk wrote:I'm sure I could go as fast. It'd be the straight line bit I'd have a problem with. Not the mention the bravery (stupidity?) of getting in it in the first place.
Yes - I'm still trying to work out if he's mad or brave or a litle of both. Worrying thing is, his day job is RAF fighter pilot...finger on the button and all that.
For those people that think driving a land-speed record car is just point and shoot, on the last record run in 1997 Andy has full lock on the steering at one point (> 600mph) in an attempt to keep the car straight. His commentrary includes the priceless sentence: "barely under control....keeping foot down..."
Probably not something you want to say on the IAM test.