LAND SPEED RECORD
It is a few minutes shy of twelve and the heat shimmers like water on Hakskeen Pan. Royal Air Force Wing Commander Andy Green gets behind the wheel of a maroon Geely Boyue, journalists in tow, and chases down the pan at 160 km/h – a mere fraction of the speed he will travel here next year when he attempts to break his own land speed record, set at 1 227.9 km/h in 1997 in Nevada, in the US.
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