The 1010, 67 km/h Bloodhound car will be on public display at the Coventry Transport Museum in the United Kingdom, both organisations announced this week.
The high-speed racer broke through the 1000 km/h barrier on the Hakskeen Pan in the Norther Cape in late 2019. The Bloodhound team will focus on ramping up £8-million (R112 million) in funding to break the world record of 1 228 km/h, the BBC reports.
The decision to move the Bloodhound LSR from the company’s former headquarters in Gloucestershire to the museum is in order for the close to half a million annual visitors to have a peek at the monumental machine. The museum’s culture and creative director, Francis Nielsen told the BBC: “We are so excited to exhibit an item of such importance in Coventry as we enter our year as UK City of Culture.”
The new goal is to achieve a record of 1287,48 km/h and this can only be attempted after investment and sponsorship is secured for another testing period in the Kalahari.
Stuart Edmonson, Bloodhound’s Head of Engineering Operations, has been tasked with acquiring funders for the project, and said: “As we emerge from the pandemic I’m confident we can find an equally passionate partner to complete the final step in our journey to achieving a new world record. Installation of an innovative environmentally friendly rocket will add to the engineering excitement of this project.”
The current car is one of seven to have traveled at over 965,6 km/h and the team says based on its most recent testing the car is capable of breaking the land speed record but requires further investment to do so.
Watch the Bloodhound LSR in action below
