Letting off steam

Steam may sound like the power source of yesteryear. All puff puff puffing and Jenny Agutter with a cut glass Home Counties accent.

But no, good old steam is powering its way into record books and, by Jove, it's a British effort.


The British Steam Car Challenge is looking to head beyond 200mph with its car, called Inspiration.

The team has just proved this is possible with a test of its steam turbine engine, which punched out more than 300bhp.

There will be first tests in the UK, which should easily beat the existing record of 127.659mph. Then the team decamps to South Africa's Vernuek Pan salt beds in June 2007 for a crack at 200mph.

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