With a gust in Hurricane Melissa setting a record for peak gust measured by a specialized instrument dropped into the eye of a hurricane – 252 mph – you might be wondering what the fastest wind speeds ...

Race officials, tinkerers and competitors converge in Utah every fall to test both metal and mettle Stuart Conway Photographs by Stuart Conway Bonneville is one of the flattest natural runways on the ...

In a twist befitting the legends of motorsport, the 1969 Dodge Daytona, ousted from NASCAR in 1971, found new glory on the Bonneville Salt Flats. This pivot from track racing to setting land speed ...

One thing that's often said in sports is that records are meant to be broken. That applies to the sport of overclocking, and to that end, Patriot Memory's Viper Xtreme 5 DDR5 memory just set a ...

Guy Martin pushed the limits in a land speed record attempt, and this crash shows the risks of going extreme. Watch as speed, precision, and danger collide in a heart-stopping moment. Motorsport fans ...

The next Pebble Beach Concours may be one of the fastest ever. The first car to go over 200 mph will roar onto the grass of the 18th green—at a much slower speed—this August when the Sunbeam 1000 HP ...

Bugatti took a step back from top speed records in 2019 when it cracked the 300-mph barrier. Then CEO Stephan Winkelmann said that the goal was to hit 300 mph with the Chiron, but immediately after, ...

In brief: Memory overclocking records are falling like dominoes. Gigabyte's resident overclocker, HiCookie, recently achieved a new DDR5 speed record that narrowly bested a high mark set last month by ...

In the dark of night on Monday, September 22, American ultrarunner Tyler Andrews was making his way through the Khumbu Icefall, the massive glacier at the base of Mount Everest, when disaster struck.

Land speed racers and car enthusiasts gathered at the Bonneville Salt Flats for World of Speed last month, as they have nearly every year for the past four decades, greeting many longtime friends and ...

Who said baggers can’t go fast? Indian Motorcycle just showed us a glimpse of its racing DNA by setting a new record with its race-spec Challenger, which achieved close to 200 miles per hour at ...