When the Car is complete, BLOODHOUND will have two sets of wheels: desert wheels for use in Hakskeenpan for the land speed record runs and a separate set of runway wheels for use when doing test runs in Newquay.
Wheels
Sponsor News
Innoval Technology and the fastest wheels on Earth
News
In the first of a regular series of articles about our sponsors, we hear from Innoval Technology – one of the BLOODHOUND Product Sponsors working on the Car’s desert wheels – about why and how it is involved in the Project.
Cisco Bloodhound TV, Episode 29
Wheel testing at Hakskeenpan
Bloodhound TV
BLOODHOUND's wheels will be the fastest in history, they will be the only point of contact between this 135,000 hp jet and rocket powered car and the South African desert. Getting their shape right is crucial.
Cisco Bloodhound TV, Episode 27
The Fastest Wheels in History
Bloodhound TV
Cisco Bloodhound TV visited product sponsor Otto Fuchs in Germany to see the first stage of the 1000mph wheels being forged from aluminium
Project News
Mad Max at Hakskeen, Nov 2012
News
Ron Ayers and Brian Coombs visit Hakskeenpan to try out the wheel design on the surface. The wheels are attached to a trailer called "Mad Max"
Engineering News
Castle Precision Engineering to make Bloodhound's wheels
News
On the 30th April, we announced our wheel manufacturer, Castle Precision Engineering, who will take on the manufacture of both the UK runway and desert wheels.
Engineering News
1,000 mph Car To Run On Scottish Wheels
News
Today, at Holyrood, BLOODHOUND SSC’s driver Andy Green and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers announced that Glasgow firm Castle Precision Engineering Ltd is
Engineering News
The Wheel Story so far
News
by Brian Coombs
The wheel is a very complicated component. It has to cope with very high loads applied to it, and has many other constraints imposed on its design.
Engineering update November 2009
Breaking ground on breaking ground...
News
Wheels
Press Release
Timken to provide wheel bearing solution for 1,000 mph car
Wednesday, 2 September, 2009Press Release
The BLOODHOUND Project, Britain’s 1,000mph land speed record attempt, announced today that wheel bearing manufacturer Timken will be sponsoring the wheel bearing solution for the BLOODHOUND SSC (Super Sonic Car).
Press Release
Lockheed Martin UK to help re-invent the wheel for world’s fastest car
Monday, 27 July, 2009Press Release
Lockheed Martin UK is providing Research & Development in the first step towards designing the wheels on the world’s fastest car, BLOODHOUND SSC.
