UK readers please note: the Black Rock Desert is on Pacific Daylight Time, 8 hours behind British Summer Time.

2130 hrs

The surface of the Black Rock Desert has been soaked by a heavy rainstorm this evening. Until the morning we cannot tell whether the white lines have survived. Roll-out will not take place at 0730hrs as planned - we will try to run again tomorrow subject to the results of the course inspection, otherwise we will run on Sunday.

1500 hrs

ThrustSSC has the first 'slot' tomorrow and will make two runs. Accredited members of the media wishing to attend the Press Area opposite the measured mile during the runs should present themselves at Access 2 at 0700hrs.

1400 hrs

Neither ThrustSSC nor Spirit of America will run today.

1200 hrs

ThrustSSC is on a 'weather hold' due to the continuing rain.

1015 hrs

ThrustSSC is scheduled to roll out at 1045hrs.

0900 hrs

Spirit of America are planning to roll out as soon as weather permits. ThrustSSC have the second 'slot'. It is currently raining.

0900 hrs

The ThrustSSC Team are on the Black Rock Desert, Nevada, USA, for the head-to-head race against the Spirit of America Team to set the first ever supersonic World Land Speed Record.

Microplex Web Cameras

The very latest status of the car and team on the Black Rock Desert can be seen through the live pictures from our Microplex Web Cameras.

Individual Status Reports

Car

1. ThrustSSC has reached a highest speed through the measured mile to date of 728mph on Thursday 25th September 1997
2. Subject to confirmation by the FIA, ThrustSSC set a new Unlimited World Land Speed Record of 714.144mph on Thursday 25th September 1997
3. The car is on the desert being prepared for the next runs of the Black Rock Campaign

Team

1. The ThrustSSC Team are settled into life in Gerlach and on the Black Rock Desert
2. The dust is really getting onto some people's chests, despite the use of dust masks
3. Long-stay Mach 1 Club member Andrew has had to return home having run out of vacation time (thanks for all your help!)

Black Rock Desert, Nevada, USA

The current status of track preparations is:

	Key: Green - Lined and Fodded Light Green - Lined Red - Used Yellow - Fodded

Weather

1. The weather is generally cold in the morning, warming up to afternoon temperatures reaching the 70s (Fahrenheit)
2. Dust storms are being kicked up on days with high winds
3. Nights are bitterly cold now - winter is coming
4. Today has started calm and very gloomy with light rain

Web Site

1. Accesses are currently running around 5,095,000/week, 966,000/day

Jeremy Duck...

... has been seen close to home in a hot spring! Search parties are on their way. If you see him, we'd appreciate it if you'd let us know where it was.

Plans

• Car
  1. 2 further runs on the Black Rock Desert are planned for today:
     1. Mach 1.015. Full afterburners. Throttling back to maintain constant speed through the measured mile.
     2. Mach 1.036. Full afterburners. Throttling back to maintain constant speed through the measured mile.
• Black Rock Desert
  1. Continue track preparations, weather permitting
• Web Site
  1. Continue reporting
  2. Load new Team pages

Please check our Runs Database for the very latest information on the progress of ThrustSSC - the database is always updated as soon as possible after the car runs - and always before any report is written and published.

(Please note: any details published on this Web Site about the status, speeds and plans of the Spirit of America Team are not official. Official details are available on the Spirit of America Team's Web Site at http://www.spiritofamerica.com

The Spirit of America Team are on the Black Rock Desert, Nevada, USA, for the head-to-head race against the ThrustSSC Team to set the first ever supersonic World Land Speed Record.

1. Spirit of America has reached a peak speed to date of 675mph on the Black Rock Desert, Nevada, USA, during the October 1996 record attempt
2. Spirit of America has reached a 1997 peak speed to date of 531mph on the Black Rock Desert, Nevada, USA
3. The team plan to run again today

Mazola Excursion

One of the team members checked the Web accesses history in Internet Explorer on one of the Pit Station PCs. Someone has been surfing the Barry Manilow Web Site....???

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