With the successful achievement of the project's objective - the first Supersonic World Land Speed Record - the ThrustSSC Team and returned home with their car to England. It was a rapturous welcome - with appearances on television, at events all over the country, and in the Lord Mayor's Show.

With the project over though, there was no choice but to disband the team. As with successful Land Speed Record teams before them, achievement of the project's goal meant that unemployment beckoned for many. With only a skeleton crew remaining to close off the project's affairs, those who had jobs to return to did so, the remainder went in search of work. Everything except the car, Pit Station and the Spey 205 engines was auctioned off.

The equipment may have been sold, and the car and Pit Station destined for a museum, but the greatest legacy was a mark in the history books:

For more information please read:

• Richard Noble's November 1997 Update
• Endex
• Richard Noble's January 1999 Update
• King Hussein of Jordan
• We're Back!
• Richard Noble's July 2003 Update

Daily Status Pages

The Daily Status Pages from the final days of the project are still available:

• 11th November 1997
• 18th November 1997
• 29th November 1997
• 30th November 1997
• 19th January 1999
• 31st January 1999
• 10th October 1999
• 9th July 2003

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