Hydrogen power!

[MRK]

Found this on the news feed today. If you're not an Apple News person, the article came from Road & Track magazine.

https://apple.news/Ah8bMPnH4SFSNI8ci0WJdGg

[tallguy]

Thank you for posting this.  Great article.

Best of luck to Andy Green and the rest of that team.

[Stainless1]

Hydrogen as an internal combustion fuel was first run at Bonneville in 1981... 1 liter turbo motor in a 1958 Fiat Abarth Zagato... Went about 70 MPH... Driver Johnboy Gowetski...
Just a little history for all y'all 

[TrickyDicky]

FIA record in the bag!

406.320mph (subject to confirmation ...).

[WOODY@DDLLC]

https://www.jcb.com/en-GB/campaigns/jcb-hydromax/
From the link:
JCB Hydromax: The power behind our new land speed record.

20 years on from the JCB Dieselmax breaking the world diesel land speed record at an incredible 350.092mph, JCB Hydromax has set a new world land speed record of 406.320mph.

The team returned to Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah for the record attempt, where the car recorded the average speed 400.623mph in its first run, and 412.135mph on its second run. This gave an average of 406.320mph – the fastest a hydrogen internal combustion car has ever travelled.

The speed also exceeds the 303mph hydrogen fuel cell mark – making JCB Hydromax the fastest hydrogen-powered vehicle of any kind in history. Let's delve into the detail behind this record-breaking vehicle.

[JAL AKA JL222]

https://www.jcb.com/en-GB/campaigns/jcb-hydromax/
From the link:
JCB Hydromax: The power behind our new land speed record.

20 years on from the JCB Dieselmax breaking the world diesel land speed record at an incredible 350.092mph, JCB Hydromax has set a new world land speed record of 406.320mph.

The team returned to Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah for the record attempt, where the car recorded the average speed 400.623mph in its first run, and 412.135mph on its second run. This gave an average of 406.320mph – the fastest a hydrogen internal combustion car has ever travelled.

The speed also exceeds the 303mph hydrogen fuel cell mark – making JCB Hydromax the fastest hydrogen-powered vehicle of any kind in history. Let's delve into the detail behind this record-breaking vehicle.

 Well..Ferguson Racing went 397mph with a single American motor

 When did this happen, who timed it?

 Not in speed week results.

                  JL222

[TD]

As a guess, they stayed on and had FIA timekeepers on hand?

Tim (the Keyboard Racer  )

[aircap]

That is scooting right along.

[tallguy]

Good job, JCB!

Driver Andy Green reported wheelspin in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th gears.  Since the car has plenty of
power, it could probably go faster with some added downforce to provide more traction.  This could
be done using aerodynamics, or ballast.  I could easily imagine this car exceeding the existing
wheel-driven record speed some day, and would love to be there to see it happen. 

[TrickyDicky]

...
I could easily imagine this car exceeding the existing
wheel-driven record speed some day, and would love to be there to see it happen. 

Good luck with that!

I think JCB have achieved their objectives and Hydromax will never run again. I'd love to be wrong though ...

[desotoman]

When did this happen, who timed it?

 Not in speed week results.

                  JL222

From the JCB website, https://www.jcb.com/en-GB/explore/insight/news/

JCB's hydrogen-powered Hydromax streamliner today clinched an SCTA speed record on the Bonneville Salt Flats – reaching 368.347mph at the world's leading land speed racing event.

Driven by Wing Commander Andy Green OBE, the car set a new record in the Southern California Timing Association's (SCTA) Blown Gas Streamliner (AA/BGS, 500+ cubic inches) class at Bonneville Salt Flats at 8:50am today (MDT), recording a speed of 368.347 mph.

The success came as the engineering giant gears up for an official FIA world record attempt next week.

The run was completed as part of the Southern California Timing Association's (SCTA) renowned Bonneville Speed Week, regarded as the world's premier land speed racing event, which requires teams to make two runs on consecutive days and takes the average of the maximum speeds reached.


With the SCTA challenge behind it and valuable data gathered, the JCB team is now focussing on next week's outright Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) world record bid, where the JCB Hydromax will attempt to write a new chapter in hydrogen-powered motorsport history.

JCB Hydromax is powered by two of JCB's own production-based hydrogen internal combustion engines. With the engines now being turned up towards their full combined output of 1,600hp, the team will look to build on this SCTA record as it prepares for the FIA record attempt next week.

Bonneville Speed Week is the world's leading land speed racing event, run by the SCTA, which governs and verifies official class records at the event. Following Speed Week, the JCB Hydromax team is remaining at Bonneville to pursue officially recognised world records under the FIA, the global governing body for motorsport. The JCB Hydromax team has been running to a strict test programme, completing 44 runs to date, building speed and confidence in the car as they push the limits of hydrogen combustion technology and showcase British engineering to a global audience.

JCB's speed attempt comes ahead of the opening of the company's new $500 million, one million sq. ft, 400-acre factory in San Antonio, Texas, which will employ 1,500 people, manufacturing machines for the US market.

The week after Speedweek,

British engineering giant JCB has set a new world land speed record of 406.320 mph with its hydrogen-powered JCB Hydromax.

The car recorded the average speed 400.623 mph in its first run this morning across the Bonneville Salt Flats, and 412.135 mph on its second run, giving the average of 406.320 mph - the fastest a hydrogen internal combustion car has ever travelled.

Driven by Wing Commander Andy Green OBE, the twin engined, 32-foot car completed the two runs required under FIA rules - one in each direction within an hour - comfortably beating the previous FIA-officiated hydrogen internal combustion benchmark of 185.5 mph set by the BMW H2R in 2004. The record is subject to official ratification by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), the global governing body for motorsport.

In doing so, JCB Hydromax surpassed the 350.092 mph world diesel land speed record set by JCB Dieselmax — also driven by Green, on the same salt, in August 2006. Twenty years on, JCB has beaten its own benchmark with an engine that produces no CO₂ at the tailpipe.

The speed also exceeds the 303 mph hydrogen fuel cell mark — making JCB Hydromax the fastest hydrogen-powered vehicle of any kind in history.

The record - set in the Category A, Group XIV - Class 7 FIA World Flying Record Start Land Speed Record - was set using two of JCB's own production-based hydrogen digger engines, producing a combined 1,600 bhp and manufactured at the company's engine factory in Foston, Derbyshire, UK. They are the same engines now powering JCB machines and equipment rolling off production lines in the UK as part of the company's £100 million hydrogen programme.

[kiwi belly tank]

I'm wondering how hydrogen is all of a sudden approved for Gas class when rule 1.U clearly states Hydrogen is in Fuel class!? That record is 470.
  Sid

[JAL AKA JL222]

Well..Ferguson Racing went 397mph with a single American motor

 When did this happen, who timed it?

 Not in speed week results.

                  JL222


...I would say...this looks like 397 mph....

  Yeah...You think where do you think I came up with 397mph?

  Read post 150 and figure out whom I was referring to. Everyone else did.

 Pork Pie don't sort out my reply. Post the whole content.

           JL222

         

[JAL AKA JL222]

Well..Ferguson Racing went 397mph with a single American motor

 When did this happen, who timed it?

 Not in speed week results.

                  JL222


...I would say...this looks like 397 mph....

  Yeah...You think where do you think I came up with 397mph?

  Read post 150 and figure out whom I was referring to. Everyone else did.

 Pork Pie don't sort out my reply. Post the whole content.

           JL222

         

                                            Pork Pie..... Gone in 60 sec

[JAL AKA JL222]

I'm wondering how hydrogen is all of a sudden approved for Gas class when rule 1.U clearly states Hydrogen is in Fuel class!? That record is 470.
  Sid

 Yeah...who changed the definition of gasoline to include hydrogen when hydrogen has so much more stored energy?

 Was this voted on by the SCTA/BNI board?

  Not in 2024 rule book, in 2025?

                     JL222