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[Speedskater]

1000 horsepower is small change these days.  You can buy a Dodge with over 800 horsepower.
While a fuel dragster has well over 10,000 horsepower. It uses almost 14 gallons of special fuel to cover 1000 feet. Then they disassemble and rebuild the engine for the next race.

 

[midwayfair]

but boost from motor powered drafting still requires an asterisk IMO. 

It's called the "motor-paced bicycle land speed record." Drafting is how that record has always been set for well over a hundred years. Someone else already explained that in an earlier reply, but if you want to read up on it, the term is motor-paced racing.

Saying there should be an asterisk next to this record is like saying that there should be an asterisk for baseball-bat-assisted home run records.

 

[JohnRoberts]

It's called the "motor-paced bicycle land speed record." Drafting is how that record has always been set for well over a hundred years. Someone else already explained that in an earlier reply, but if you want to read up on it, the term is motor-paced racing.

Saying there should be an asterisk next to this record is like saying that there should be an asterisk for baseball-bat-assisted home run records.

Excuuuse me.....  :-[

I just checked google and pretty much every headline neglects to mention "motor-paced" or more specifically "motor assisted"

Yeah, and what about those metal bats? 

JR