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29 March 1927USA, UKThe British driver Henry Segrave establishes a new world land-speed record of 327.96 kph/203.79 mph in a 1,000 hp Sunbeam, at Daytona Beach, Florida. He is the first person to set a land-speed record in excess of 200 mph.
17 July31 December 1964UK, AustraliaThe British car and speedboat enthusiast Donald Campbell emulates his father Malcolm Campbell's achievement of holding the world land- and water-speed records simultaneously. He sets a new land-speed record of 648.77 kph/403.14 mph on Lake Eyre salt flats, Australia. Later in the year he reaches 444.615 kph/276.279 mph on Lake Dumbleyung, Australia, to break the water-speed record for the seventh time since 1955.
4 October 1983UK, USABritish driver Richard Noble breaks the world one-mile land speed record in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada, in his Thrust 2 jet car, averaging a speed of 1,019.44 kph/633.468 mph over the required two runs.
2 July 2002At his sixth attempt, US millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett becomes the first man to fly a balloon solo and non-stop around the world, crossing the west Australian coastline in his Spirit of Freedom after covering more than 19,000 miles in just less than two weeks.


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The team behind the project, called the British Steam Car Challenge, includes the test driver Don Wales, 42, above, from Surrey, who is nephew of the late Donald Campbell and grandson of Sir Malcolm Campbell, who both set speed records on land and water.
This particular car is of great importance to the history of land speed records as it held the record for the longest.
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