Spill a little water in your salt shaker, and the salt quickly becomes clumpy and useless. Wet salt isn't all that useful in land speed record racing, either. Wet conditions and bad weather shut down ...

VBB is short for Venturi Buckeye Bullet, the name signifying a technology partnership with Ohio State University. On Wednesday, Venturi with its VBB-3 set a land speed record for electric cars, ...

The Venturi Buckeye Bullet-3 combines two things we love here at Ars Technica: land speed records and electric vehicles. It’s a collaboration between Venturi—a Monegasque electric car company—and the ...

If you had asked James Wolfcale what he wanted to do with his life after he began formulating words, he would have told he wanted to be a race car driver. He fell a bit short on that front, but car ...

The Venturi VBB-3 is heading back to the Bonneville's desert in Utah, completing the finishing touches to its setup before appearing in the salt flats in August to attempt and claim the 600km/h speed ...

At Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats, a new arrival is gearing up to break records on the legendary speedway. The VBB-3 is the collaborative project of Venturi Automobiles and student engineers at Ohio ...

This has been a bad year for racing at the famed Bonneville Salt Flats. Lots of rain has left the normally hard packed salt slushy and clumpy. The conditions were so bad that the Bonneville Speed Week ...