Speed Scotland in flames at 250mph 15 | 08 | 2012

    SPEED SCOTLAND DRIVER Rick Pearson, bidding to break the 1000cc World Land Speed Record on the famous Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, had a narrow escape when his car caught fire at almost 250mph.

    Pearson — driving the Lesmahagow team's 22in-wide, methanol-powered Streamliner named Flower of Scotland — was accelerating rapidly in the team's latest attempt to break the current 313mph record.

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