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05 September 2006
ANDY GREEN - RAF WITTERING
It has been a very special few months. Being part of team that built a record car, ran it in the UK, shipped it to Bonneville and set 3 records above 300 mph(one SCTA and 2 FIA), all in the space of 3 months - wow! The JCB DISELMAX team is a remarkable 
04 September 2006
Sir Anthony Bamford - JCB Worldwide Headquarters, Rocester, England
As we arrived on the Salt flats my family and I were all struck by how totally eerie the Bonneville Salt Flats were.
With its funny little airfield with weed-strewn runway, you almost feel as though you are on the set of a Hollywood Western. There we
25 August 2006
Dr. TIM LEVERTON - Wendover Airport
Wendover Airport, 25th August
Its now 48 hours since Andy Green drove the JCB DIESELMAX to a 350.092mph FIA record and in doing so accomplished all the objectives of this phase of our project.
24 August 2006
ANNIE BERRISFORD - Bonnevill Salt Flats - Utah 11.38am (US)
Thursday 24th August – 11.38 am 350 mph …… there is not a lot to say but WOW, we did it!
22 August 2006
ANNIE BERRISFORD - Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah 5:22PM
Tuesday 22nd August 2006, 17:22 - What a fantastic day!! I can’t believe how smooth it all went (that must be pessimistic Annie coming through), but everyone has worked so hard especially the guys in the hanger changing engines and transmissions etc ove
22 August 2006
Dr. TIM LEVERTON - Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah 4:37PM
Tuesday 22nd August 2006, 16:37 - My last blog was written late last Thursday night while surfing a wave of emotion following the first run of the JCB DIESELMAX with the car and engines working together as intended. That run was the vindication of all th
21 August 2006
DAVID HOYLE - Wendover Airfield, Utah 6:10PM
Monday 21st August 2006, 18:10 - When I was asked to be part of the JCB Dieselmax team at Bonneville I realised that this would mean I would spend my birthday away from home and that it would be on a day when we would not be running the car, so no chance
18 August 2006
ANNIE BERRISFORD - Bonneville Salt Flats 2:12PM (US)
Friday 18th August 2006, 14:12 - Well after feeling our luck was down at the beginning of the week a whole bunch of black cats would have been useful, however it seems to be that black Labradors do the trick too!!! Just before our RECORD BREAKING run, on
17 August 2006
Dr. TIM LEVERTON - Bonneville Salt Flats, 12.15 am (US)
308.622mph – Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Hah!
Finally we sent the JCB DIESELMAX up the course with both the engines working together exactly as intended and the result was 308.622mph over the last mile (mile 4 to 5 on the Bonneville long course) with an ex
16 August 2006
ANNIE BERRISFORD - Bonneville salt flats 10:12PM (US)
Howdy Y’all! Temperature today 98 degrees F
We got a lie-in this morning – only a 6.15 am get-up!! The boys had a long night last night fabricating and fitting new bits to the car – fingers crossed – touch wood etc (not that we are at all sup
