Bloodhound team announces land speed record site

Green, who will be driving the vehicle, says that the record attempt will take place at Hakskeen Pan, in the North Eastern corner of South Africa. The Bloodhound Project aims to encourage schools to promote design engineering from an early age. Although the site was initially dismissed because of a large dirt road running across it, Green revealed that a new tarmac road – over 19km long and 5km wide - has been built across the end of the Pan. The project has received the blessing from the Nothern Cape Provincial Government and, according to Green, early indications are that the surface is 'exceptional'. He explained: "John Piper [engineering director] took the Ground Surface Test Rig (see Breaking Ground on Breaking Ground...") and found the surface consistently hard ... and this information will be fed straight back to the wheel designers."