In the mid-Eighties, two supercars fought for the title of the World’s Fastest…and for pole position on my bedroom wall. In red, there was Ferrari with its F40, and in the silver corner, the Porsche ...

Land speed records are hardly a new phenomenon; the first such mark of 39.34 miles per hour was set by Frenchman Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat in an electric Jeantaud Duc carriage way back in 1898. That ...