Though slippery roads created difficulties for the driver, yet the Honda 007 F1 car set the fastest ever speed in an F1 car. At the Bonneville Salt Flats, Alan van der Merwe drove along a seven mile-long salt straight, and achieved a speed of 220.571mph (354.975 km/h) for the flying mile and 220.897 mph (355.499 km/h) for the flying kilometre.
Both Federation Internationale Automobile (FIA) and the United States Auto Club (USAC) have recorded the sped of the Honda. After official ratification by the FIA it will be legally declared the fastest ever recorded speed by a Formula 1 car over a timed distance.
Though the car failed to achieve the target of to traveling beyond 400 km/h, Mike Cook, President of the Southern California Timing Association (SCTA) is impressed. He says:
It’s a speed that will be noted all over the world and I wish them more success tomorrow if they try and go even quicker.
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