10 Things You Didn’t Know About Land Speed Racing

While Land Speed Racing (LSR) may not appear to share a lot in common with dirtbike racing, the historic sport is carried out on a surface that is more akin to clay than asphalt. Here are 10 things you might not know about LSR.

Jean Turner

3. Streamliners cannot get moving on their own.

Land Speed Racing
The Ack Attack gets “hitched up” to its starting device – a Dodge Ram. PHOTO BY JEAN TURNER.

Some land-speed racers (particularly the two-wheel streamliners) are geared so high they cannot get going under their own power. To get off the line, they need to either be push started or pull started by a chase vehicle.

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