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March 15, 2013

Workers may set land-clearing record; Guinness to verify

  • About 300 villagers have created a 12.5-mile-long track in a South African desert where a British team will try to set a land-speed record of 1,000 miles an hour.
    • By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA
    Associated Press

    JOHANNESBURG — Toiling with shovels, wheelbarrows and bare hands, about 300 workers removed 6,000 tons of stones and other debris from a vast stretch of desert in a desolate corner of South Africa over the past two years. If all goes well, it will become the place where a British-led team tries to breaks the world land-speed record.

    “It will be a brisk ride,” said Andy Green, the man who plans to break his own record in 2015, using a vehicle powered by rocket and warplane technology. His goal? Reaching 1,000 miles an hour.


     
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