{"id":77258,"date":"2026-08-11T07:56:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T12:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/11\/driver-who-broke-the-sound-barrier-to-attempt-another-land-speed-record-in-utah\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T07:56:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T12:56:29","slug":"driver-who-broke-the-sound-barrier-to-attempt-another-land-speed-record-in-utah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/11\/driver-who-broke-the-sound-barrier-to-attempt-another-land-speed-record-in-utah\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver who broke the sound barrier to attempt another land speed record in Utah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British driver Andy Green will try to beat his own record, set 20 years ago, with a hydrogen-powered car<\/p>\n<p>The first \u2013 and only \u2013 person to break the sound barrier in a car hits the track in Utah this week with new wheels and his eye on another record.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty years ago, British driver Andy Green set the land speed record for a diesel-powered car, reaching 350.092 mph (563.4 km\/h) at Utah\u2019s famous <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/c61d776a3055420091053c164a082ea4\">Bonneville Salt Flats<\/a>. Green will return to the lunarlike landscape Tuesday and try to beat that mark, this time with a hydrogen-powered car.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/11\/driver-sound-barrier-land-speed-record\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British driver Andy Green will try to beat his own record, set 20 years ago, with a hydrogen-powered car The first \u2013 and only \u2013 person to break the sound barrier in a car hits the track in Utah this week with new wheels and his eye on another record. Twenty years ago, British driver &#8230; <a title=\"Driver who broke the sound barrier to attempt another land speed record in Utah\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/11\/driver-who-broke-the-sound-barrier-to-attempt-another-land-speed-record-in-utah\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Driver who broke the sound barrier to attempt another land speed record in Utah\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}