{"id":74627,"date":"2020-08-24T10:20:16","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T17:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=74627"},"modified":"2020-08-24T10:20:16","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T17:20:16","slug":"speed-demon-715-streamliner-shatters-records-at-bonneville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/speed-demon-715-streamliner-shatters-records-at-bonneville\/","title":{"rendered":"Speed Demon 715 Streamliner Shatters Records at Bonneville"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"rtecenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 427px;\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/1(122).jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"74628\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/speed-demon-715-streamliner-shatters-records-at-bonneville\/1-131\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1-scaled-e1598289223850.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"639,382\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;10&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D5500&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1565700616&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;36&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1-scaled-e1598289223850-300x179.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-74628 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1-scaled-e1598289223850.jpg\" alt=\"Salt Flats, record, high speed\" width=\"639\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1-scaled-e1598289223850.jpg 639w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1-scaled-e1598289223850-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A Chevrolet-powered streamliner set a new piston-powered land speed record at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.<\/p>\n<p>Now the world&#8217;s Fastest Piston Powered Vehicle, Speed Demon #715, Piloted by George Poteet, ran a Qualifying speed of 469mph on Wednesday August 12th, with an Exit speed of 477mph. The Thursday backup run was a jaw-dropping 470mph! With an Exit speed of 481mph!!!! SCTA Certified Qualification run and final backup run. And while not officially recognized by the FIA world record authority, it is considerably faster than the current FIA 458.440 mph world land speed record set by Don Vesco\u2019s Turbinator (a wheel-driven turbine-powered\u00a0 car in 2001.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iuyiby-VUVQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>A Chevrolet-powered streamliner set a new piston-powered land speed record at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":74628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3470,22],"tags":[48,7892,7053,41,1632,49,1593,1136],"class_list":["post-74627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-event-coverage","tag-bonneville","tag-high-speed","tag-land-speed","tag-news","tag-racing","tag-salt-flats","tag-video","tag-world-record"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1-scaled-e1598289223850.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-jpF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74629,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74627\/revisions\/74629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}