Honda F1 Land Speed Record Car Up For Auction
You may recollect back in 2006 when Honda-BAR Formula 1 group went to Bonneville Salt Flats as well as set the world land speed jot down for the Formula 1 racing car, doing 397kph. Now which automobile that is nicknamed Bonneville 400 is up for grabs during at Bonhams Collectors’ Motor Cars sale at Silverstone upon 24 July. They reckon a car sells for ?10,000 – 20,000.
Press Release:
Using the unique car offering here, Honda set a first ever Authorized land speed record for a Formula 1 automobile during the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, USA in July 2006. The project had got underneath approach in 2005 when a British American Tobacco-owned group raced underneath a BAR-Honda ensign in a colours of BAT’s ‘Lucky Strike’ cigarette code. A modified BAR-Honda 007 chassis was used for the 2005 test during Mojave Airport in California, USA, where driver Alan van der Merwe absolutely exceeded a target speed of 400km/h (248.4mph). Unfortunately, h2o logging of a Salt Flats meant that a actual jot down try had to be postponed.
At the finish of the 2005 deteriorate, Honda paid for a team as well as one after another with the speed record plan regulating a CLUB 007 framework, which was re-designated as a Honda RA106 as well as propitious with a 2.4-litre V8 engine in line with a Formula 1 law changes introduced during a begin of a 2006 deteriorate (3.0-litre V10s had been used hitherto). The car’s aerodynamic package was optimised for top speed, with only a barest smallest of downforce for stability, and the gearbox propitious with a higher-than-normal top rigging.
The jot down attempt got under way on Monday 17th July 2006 in the best possible demeanour; Alan outpost der Merwe achieving an average speed of 220.571mph over two runs through the totalled mile on the seven-mile straight to set the brand new jot down for a Formula 1 automobile. By the time the shop-worn differential (caused by driveshaft failure) brought proceedings to the hindrance upon the Thursday, outpost der Merwe had damaged his own jot down, leaving the symbol for the flying mile during 246.908mph (397.03km/h) as well as which for the flying kilometre at 246.983mph (397.481km/h). Although a average speeds just missed the 400km/h aim, a group at least had a compensation of saying it exceeded upon one of a runs.
‘I consider in general the feeling is compensation with what we completed,’ pronounced outpost der Merwe. ‘It would have been nice to have the round number for a record and we are only two-and-a-half Ks off that. In fact, we know we did everything probable to a automobile; we timed it exactly right currently with a weather as well as we’re pretty certain we couldn’t have got some-more out of it, presumably another kilometre an hour though we would have indispensable freakishly good weather to do that.
‘Altogether it’s been good to set the record as well as very rewarding to stretch 400kph. It’s been a good week.’
Since 2006 a Honda record-breaker has not been run as well as still bears salt stains in places. The transmission remains un-repaired as well as to illustrate the automobile is sole as the non-runner. Runner or not, this is a singly ancestral Formula 1 automobile, estimable of a place in any engine museum or private collection.
