That's an impressive number, but still a moonshot away from SSC's prior claim. The Tuatara was then able to squeeze out a 282.9 miles per hour (455 kilometers per hour) average top speed. To quell all doubt SSC soon scheduled another run, this time with the verification of Racelogic. SSC also claimed that Guinness World Record officials were there to witness the run, but Guinness would later tell CNBC that they were "not present in any capacity, and have not verified this as a new record." There is also currently only one Tuatara prototype in existence, though the company says another 100 are being produced. The two speeds are then averaged together to account for slight variations in wind resistance and road surface. The most important of these rules standardized by the Federation Internationale de L'Automobile (FiA) is that a driver must make a high speed run in one direction, turn around and make it again in the opposite direction. Around the same time, rules began to be established around the sport of land speed racing. Then, pioneering performance driver Teddy Tetzlaff pushed a custom Benz racecar to a respectable 141 miles per hour (227 kilometers) in 1914. It's a question people have been asking basically since the horseless carriage took over as a form of transport: What's the fastest car? As early as 1914, speed freaks took to venues like the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah to definitively find an answer. The car set the first supersonic land speed record of 763 miles per hour. The Thrust SSC car is on display September 1997 in the Black Rock Desert north of Reno, Nevada.
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