Spirit of Rett


The Spirit of Rett is a streamlined car designed to challenge the wheel-driven land speed record. On September 21, 2010 it made two speed runs piloted by Charlie Nearburg at the Bonneville Salt Flats. The first run averaged with an exit speed of. The return run, made under more difficult track conditions, averaged with a top speed of. The average speed of approximately exceeded the 45 year old Summers brothers’ Goldenrod record. The “Spirit of Rett” now has the fastest single engine car record in history.
The car was named after Nearburg's son who died in 2005.

Accomplishments

  • Fastest single engine car record in history 414.316 MPH as of September 21, 2010
  • Fastest normally aspirated car in history
  • First and only unblown single engine car over 400 MPH
  • First and only car to ever set two over 300 MPH records in one day
  • First and only car to ever hold all four of the fastest unblown records at Bonneville at the same time A/FS 379.6 MPH, A/GS 353.825 MPH, AA/GS 368.136 MPH, AA/FS 392.503 MPH
  • First and only car to ever hold the two fastest unblown FIA records at the same time
  • At the 2011 FIA Landspeed Shootout held in September, the “Spirit of Rett” increased its FIA Category A, Group II, Class 10 record to 366.59 MPH.
The only over 400 MPH records that have been set by conventional race cars are as follows :