Amir’s first run in the Spectre SpeedLiner went VERY well. He was as calm as Cool Hand Luke, and kept the car on track for a 300mph qualifying run. We had a speedometer failure mid-course, so he did his best to guess top speed and ended up running 312mph at the 5-mile and leaving the course at 320mph. That’s enough to qualify for a AA license and a new A/BGS (under 500 inch blown gas streamliner) record. The previous record was 286mph. We put the car in impound and had 4 hours to prep it. Then tomorrow we hit the salt again at 7am.

If all goes according to plan, Amir will back up the run with an even faster pass, lock in both a NEW WORLD RECORD, an unlimited license and the coveted blue hat of the 300mph Club. We will have lots of great high-def video and film coming soon, but in the meantime here’s a quickie little preview we pulled from the onboard cameras.

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