A Corvette that made history
Summary
The biggest names in motorsport had tried - and failed. A 50-year-old speed record had defied all their efforts. Could a standard American sports car break the record for the fastest 24-hour drive ever completed? Oh yes - it could!
This article contains the following chapters
- The adventure begins
- The vehicle
- Fort Stockton
- Final preparations
- Now it's time to get serious
- The trial begins
- Destination reached
Estimated reading time: 10min
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(Translated from English) The biggest names in motorsport had tried - and failed. A 50-year-old speed record had defied all their efforts. Could a standard American sports car break the record for the fastest 24-hour drive ever completed? Oh yes - it could! Every great undertaking has a beginning. This one began in the spring of 1989 in Southern California when PR consultant Peter Mills was chatting with Stuart "Stu" Hayner, who had been racing sports cars professionally since 1987. Mills told him that Ab Jenkins had set a world land speed record of 257 km/h over 24 hours on the Bonneville Salt Flats in July 1940. The record still stood - the only one of its kind that had never been broken.
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