Rainworth youngsters smash speed record - twice

By Andy Done-Johnson
Published 6th Oct 2014, 15:27 BST
Talented teenage engineers at a Rainworth school followed in the footsteps of legendary speed-merchant Donald Campbell at the weekend when they broke a land speed record - twice.

But unlike the famed daredevil who broke both the land and water speed records in the 1960s, the youngsters at Joseph Whitaker School smashed the existing world speed record for a rocket-powered model car.

The members of the young engineers club at the Warsop Lane school broke the existing record of 287mph set in 2011, when they paid a visit to the Rolls Royce testing track in Hucknall at the weekend.

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The group took three cars built by the students - Redshift, Bloodhound and Insanity - and set a new world record of 478.1mph in Redshift.