Insights with Rick Kelly: Dreaming of a World Record

V8 Supercars motorist and Motorsport.com columnist Rick Kelly has his sights firmly set on a jet-driven world-record effort.
Sitting from the pool in Darwin can end up being a risky and expensive action to take.
Back in 2003 I was relaxing in the sunlight looking forward to our flight back to the Melbourne cold temperatures. Drilled, I went to the local book store and bought the Guinness Book of World-Records. I considered to myself that this resembles a little enjoyment, I Had adore to really have a chance at one! How difficult could it be?
I have been massively in to remote-control toys, automobiles, boats and airplanes. The report for the world's quickest remote-control vehicle took my curiosity, mainly as it'd likewise entail my love of jet turbines.
From the mid-2000s I was on my way, using the tenets of the time saying that it needed to be a scaled-down variant of the authentic article. My strategy was to build a 1:10 scale reproduction of the Thrust SSC, which nevertheless holds the world land-speed record at 1227 km/h.
What goes up...
It turned out to be a wonderful job, I believed it might have a week, however ultimately it took five years and 1,000 hrs to assemble. It had been something I was really proud of, I managed to construct the thing in the bottom up myself, even welding and machining up all the double a arm front wishbones in the front suspension.
Yet the first record did not go so properly. I was kind of shoved into working it a bit sooner than I was expecting and prepared for, therefore I did not have time to examine it correctly.
We reach the Holden Proving Ground at Lang Lang, outside of Melbourne, and honestly it did not manage very well. The energy of the twin-jet turbines was just too much, as well as the auto squirted about in every way bar directly.
The crash was quite dramatic, but the urge to pursue the report did not perish there.
Going Again
If I discover a little time, employed in in the drop on jet auto mark two is a total love of mine.
Back when I had my first opportunity, the engineering was not as high level as what it's now, therefore I had lots of trouble attempting to to operate gyros and only keep the car right. But since then I Have got all of the supplies to reconstruct the jet vehicle, 2 all-new jet turbines, and thrust vectoring exhaust nozzles to help in keeping the vehicle right.
These turbines have around 50 pounds of push, therefore it is got enough grunt to shoot finished directly in-the-air, therefore maintaining it upon the earth will be challenging!
I am actually excited to get it heading; essentially everything about the vehicle is going to be reconstructed and re designed compared to the old one, therefore I am going to have the ability to get the two side by side throughout building. It is going to be intriguing to determine the progression of the build.
The newest car is quite a cool piece of package. It is been a work-in-progress to get several years now, it is about 1.4 metres long, and ideally when we allow it free, it'll be great for 250 km/h.
The Search for Rate
This time-around I Have sought a little assistance with all the vehicle building.
Last year after I had been in England for the GT Academy finals, I delay my flight house with a day. I caught two trains through Paris to the border of France as well as a township called Strassburg, rent a car and drove to the Black Forest in Germany into a small shed.
There I discovered some guy who makes unbelievable one fifth scale F-1 chassis, which will function as foundation for the suspension, and a few other parts of the vehicle. I am going to even have the ability to put it to use as a donor for the hydraulic four-wheel disc brakes, which are very awesome.
The newest car features a large billet aluminium chassis plate, using a carbon-fibre case that bolts on to the very best of it.
All going nicely, the vehicle is going to be set together through the rest of the entire year to the period where we are able to examine it. Stay tuned for that!
Hopefully in a few weeks' time in Darwin there is not any free time by the pool...

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09.06.2015
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