Will Gray is an aeronautical engineer turned sports and technology writer with a long-running fascination for the Land Speed Record. Having worked in the design office for Jordan Grand Prix he switched to journalism to become a 'Fleet Street' F1 correspondent. He is now bringing his passion for adventure and extreme science to the Bloodhound Project with regular blogs and news updates...
With the virtual Bloodhound SSC car built in 3D CAD, the team used a couple of other bits of clever computer tech to take it for a virtual test drive – right up to 1,000mph.
Imagine going along a road at 1,000mph – that’s about 15 times faster than you can go on a motorway. At that speed, you can’t take any chances.
The thing is, we don’t actually know what a car driving at 1,000mph would do. It’s never been done. Not for real. But it has been done ‘virtually’.
