by
Tom
06/01/2016 10:00
The fastest vehicles people have engineered operate in outer space. Up there, theres no energy to waste on traction, and no gravity to worry about. But down on the ground, there is, and things get trickier. Yet as far back as the 1920s, we were mastering it mastering the art of horsepower, torque and getting a tonnes worth of metal to move at over 100mph.