The Bloodhound SSC Land Speed Record car that was set to break the 1,000mph barrier has now sadly entered administration. Racecar delves into the tech behind this monster, with a full technical analysis in our 2018 January issue HERE.
The tech highlights of the Bloodhound SSC
Speed

At 1,000mph the wheels will be spinning at 10,200rpm (170 times per second) four times faster than those on a Formula 1 car, which will generate approximately 50,000 radial g.
The Bloodhound SSC record attempt will be the first land-based vehicle in history to travel above the speed of sound for a sustained period of time.

Aerodynamics

The shape of the car has been designed to be Mach number insensitive to ensure it remains stable at 1,000mph or Mach 1.3.
No wind tunnel goes to 1,000mph with a moving ground plane even with scale effects. Therefore, the team had to use a rocket sled instead which moved the object through the air, rather than the air over the object. The team used 200 rockets to complete 13 runs of the sled to verify the CFD.

Andy Green on his Bloodhound SSC

Power

The total thrust required to get to 1,000mph is 20 tonnes.
This phenomenal amount of power is provided from a Eurojet EJ200 jet engine as well as 3 rockets.

Stopping

To achieve a valid record attempt the FIA rules state that the vehicle needs to go through the measured mile in both directions within 1 hour.
Therefore, the car needs to complete a pitstop at the end of the first run. So, after hitting 1,000mph, th...