The car that will spearhead B.A.R Honda's eagerly
anticipated Bonneville 400 record attempt will run for the very first time tomorrow, Friday 4 November. As the world famous Salt
Flats are still too wet to stage any record attempts, driver Alan van der Merwe will debut the specially-prepared V10 B.A.R Honda at
Mojave Airport in California. The team, however, is stressing that this is not an official attempt, although it plans to run the car
as hard as possible on the 10,000-foot tarmac runway.
“The most important thing is we check that all the systems on the car
are working properly,” explained a spokesman. “There are a lot of new bits on it that we need to assess. It will be an important
occasion, but this is just part of the journey. Setting an official F1 land speed record at Bonneville, via the average of
out-and-back runs through a measured mile, is still our number one goal - even if we have to wait until next year to do it.”
