Sky News and BBC News reported that he was driving a Vampire jet car powered by a Bristol-Siddeley Orpheus turbojet engine, one of a pair built by then driver, Keiran Westman; the same car that currently holds the British land speed record at 300.3 mph (483.29 km/h). Primetime Land Speed Engineering have denied reports that Hammond was making an attempt to break the land speed record, although telemetry on one of the runs did suggest that he had reached 314.4mph (506 km/h), an unofficial British record. The run was not a land speed record attempt; this is consistent with there being no official present, and no attempt at a second run in the opposite direction, both of which are required for a land speed record to be officially recognized. In the first episode of the new series, Clarkson jo