World Records

Having not been alive during the 1980s, I’ve had to rely on hearsay from others as to what that whole situation was…

World records, like rules or the latches on public restroom doors, were made to be broken. Again. And again. Red…

Jessi Combs died as a result of a crash attempting to set a new speed record at the Alvord Desert in Oregon in late…

Breaking a world record is an arduous way to achieve global recognition. It takes skill, dedication, organization…

Terry Grant knows his way around the Goodwood Festival of Speed. His jaw-dropping, world record-breaking antics have…

What happens when you pair Williams Formula One team with British industrial equipment manufacturer JCB? You get one…

In September 2018, Denise Mueller-Korenek climbed onto her bicycle with one purpose in mind: to set the world land…

A couple of weeks ago, the Volkswagen I.D. R electric race car broke the all-time record at Pikes Peak. It was the…

The world is full of iniquities, curiosities, and people who want to push boundaries we never even knew were set…

Kevin Nicks of Chipping Norton broke his own previous World’s Fastest Shed record this weekend during a land speed…

The first time Betty Skelton piloted an aircraft solo, it was the year 1938 and she was a mere 12 years old. Yeah,…

If you followed the Winter Olympics this year, the name Kjeld Nuis may be familiar to you, as he won a pair of…

Hands up if you weren’t one of the lucky kids who grew up in the presence of a kid-sized electric car, one of those…

All of us – all of us – have definitively been there. Trundling down an empty stretch of barren, deserted, straight,…

Just last month, a Bugatti Chiron went from zero to 249 mph and back to zero in an incredible 41.96 seconds. On…

Last year, Bryce Menzies set a new world record for the longest off-road truck jump using a modified 900-horsepower…

There are so many questions that come up when you read that someone broke a world record by drifting for nearly six…

What you are about to see is both amazing and disturbing. A Chinese martial arts expert has just broken his previous…

How far do you think you could drive a small sedan backward? A few blocks? A quarter-mile? How about a tractor and a…

No, this isn’t about a dude getting pulled by a plane. This world record is much cooler. And the guy who set it has…