{"id":37988,"date":"2010-09-28T13:49:06","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T20:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=37988"},"modified":"2010-09-28T13:49:06","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T20:49:06","slug":"video-417mph-run-makes-spirit-of-rett-the-fastest-single-engine-car-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=37988","title":{"rendered":"Video &#8211; 417mph run makes &#8220;Spirit of Rett&#8221; the fastest single-engine car in history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Dallas-based racer and businessman Charles Nearburg made history at the Bonneville Salt Flats in the Red Line Oil-equipped &#8220;Spirit of Rett&#8221; streamliner, breaking a 45-year-old land-speed record and also setting the fastest single-engine car record in history with an average speed of 414.5mph. This eclipsed the Class 11 record (409.27mph) set by the Summers Brothers &#8220;Goldenrod&#8221; in 1965.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On Sept 21, the &#8220;Spirit of Rett&#8221; made back-to-back speed runs over 400mph under the watchful eye of FIA officials\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racer.com\/417mph-run-makes-spirit-of-rett-the-fastest-single-engine-car-in-history\/article\/179818\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first run of the new land speed record for a naturally-aspirated, wheel-driven car. Record was set September 21st, 2010 at the Bonneville Salt Flats with Charles Nearburg driving. Orange signs whizzing by on the left side indicate miles &#8211; recorded speed is an average between mile 5 and mile 6. On this run the average was 416.90 mph.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/p8kvCyTJbm4?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/p8kvCyTJbm4?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas-based racer and businessman Charles Nearburg made history at the Bonneville Salt Flats in the Red Line Oil-equipped &#8220;Spirit of Rett&#8221; streamliner, breaking a 45-year-old land-speed record and also setting the fastest single-engine car record in history with an average speed of 414.5mph. This eclipsed the Class 11 record (409.27mph) set by the Summers Brothers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7,80,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile","category-hot-rods-customs","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37989,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37988\/revisions\/37989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}