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

1815 hrs

ThrustSSC will make two further runs tomorrow morning. Accredited members of the media wishing to attend the Press Area opposite the measured mile during ThrustSSC's runs should present themselves at Access 2 at 0730hrs.

Spirit of America has made a further high-speed run to 636mph. A final low-speed run for today has been planned.

1515 hrs

Spirit of America has made a fourth run - to 583mph.

1215 hrs

ThrustSSC will not run today as the temperatures are high - reducing power and increasing the speed of sound. The car is planned to run again tomorrow.

Spirit of America has made two more runs to unknown speeds.

0945 hrs

Spirit of America has just made a run to the north. At present, the speed is unknown.

0830 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 764mph on Monday 13th October 1997, a Mach number of 1.007
2. 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 settled well 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. The team are happy today after breaking the sound barrier and are looking forward to making it a supersonic record

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 very cold with a bright sky and a light breeze

Web Site

1. Accesses are currently running around 6,251,476/week, 1,529,000/day

Jeremy Duck...

Has been reported at 56,000ft doing vertical dives by a Concorde pilot, we assume he is trying to break the sound barrier.

If you see him, we'd appreciate it if you'd let us know where it was.

Plans

• Car
  1. ThrustSSC is being inspected with a view to continuing to higher speeds and a supersonic record
• Black Rock Desert
  1. Continue track preparations, weather and runs 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 Spirit of America team plan to run again today

Mazola Excursion

Microlight pilot and Managing Director of Pegasus Aviation, Bill Sherlock, went down to Reno last night to hire a car. On the way back he fell asleep and rolled it into a ditch - we are pleased to say he is unharmed. Robbie Kraike made a radio call for him this morning: "Pit Station, this is Pegasus Green, over. And over. And over."

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