New Wind Powered Land Speed World Record - 225.58km/h

Emirates Team New Zealand and Glenn Ashby’s World Record Run of 222.43km/h in Horonuku was widely celebrated when achieved on December the 11th 2022, breaking the previous record of 202.9km/h by Richard Jenkins which had been unbroken for over 13 years. But, as revealed in ‘Land of Speed’ the documentary covering the Emirates Team New Zealand land speed campaign, the new world record was relatively short lived as Pilot Glenn Ashby explains of the opportunistic window presented to the team. “In February we were really coming back to the lake pack up the craft. We had to get Horonuku and the containers back to New Zealand. But a few days out, Clouds our Meteorologist indicated there was a possible weather opportunity, so we rattled our daggs and got to the lake.”

[cosmiccolonel]

225 kmh from 23 knots of wind…… holy shut broo, bloody awesome 👍👍👍👍👍

[nzbroker]

Incredible piece of engineering. Great driving by Glen, hanging it out!

[davepb]

Epic achievement, well done the whole team!

[simonmaton]

As much as I appreciate the amazing achievement, are we going to get a proper full video on all the engineering and the story of the project? Am I the only one who is fascinated by how you achieved this?

[fredtatch]

Congratulations!!! Love your teams pushing to the ragged squirrelly edge of control ability as safely as you can 💚🏆

[DaysoftheRepublic]

Love it! We're producing a SciFi comic book in which land sailing is used extensively!

[bobibest]

A bicycle with a sail that goes faster than my car. Holy crap.

[DemPilafian]

Sailing is awesome. It's crazy that wind going *43 km/h* can push a vehicle to *226 km/h.* I'd love to see another video explaining the physics plus the design and material decisions that went into building the vehicle.

[YeahItsLash]

Well done Glenn & team, congrats! Great video.

[truegret]

Well done, man!
You have taken crazy to a whole 'nother level. Very, very impressive.

[VR-jdwr]

Over 10 times faster than the wind! The skilled driver had his hands full. What an incredible achievement:)

[Kiyoone]

Ok. This was unexpected. Thanks Algo. They MUST have done some documentary about how to make those wind kite cars right? because this looks BLOODY AWESOME.

[Aotearoa_Kiwi]

Strewth ... flying Kiwis!! Well done Team.

[plate]

Awesome achievement guys for all the innovation and belief in could be done and what you actually achieved.

Way to go 💪

[iammattbarker]

Seeing it for the first time and a plane flying on its side. Amazing!

[williamcowan]

Absolutely outstanding! Keeping it on the ground rather than airborne must be a challenge.

[djkiwi]

SO wicked! Nice one lads - go for more!! 🤙🇳🇿

[royshashibrock]

This touches on a subject I wish I understood more - sailing and wind propulsion.

[roslynhita]

Congratulations Glennie and the Team..Love it

[andrewreed]

Congratulations team new Zealand 👍 it was great to be there