{"id":7918,"date":"2023-11-15T10:44:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T09:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/?p=7918"},"modified":"2023-11-15T10:44:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T09:44:47","slug":"emirates-team-new-zealand-sets-a-new-wind-powered-land-speed-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/en\/emirates-team-new-zealand-sets-a-new-wind-powered-land-speed-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Emirates Team New Zealand sets a new wind powered land speed record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Two months after Emirates Team NZ first broke the world wind powered speed record, the team has returned to Lake Gairdner and broke the existing mark, which has now been ratified.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The official Wind-Powered Land Speed World Record now stands at 225.58km\/h (140.17mph). Set in just 23 knots (42km\/h) of wind.<\/p>\n<p>The previous mark, set by Emirates Team NZ&#8217;s Horonuku piloted by Glenn Ashby was 222.4km\/h, with the previous mark set by Richard Jenkin was 202.9 km\/h.<\/p>\n<p>Jenkin&#8217;s mark had been unbroken for over 13 years. But, as revealed in \u2018Land of Speed\u2019 the documentary covering the Emirates Team New Zealand land speed campaign, the new world record was relatively short lived.<\/p>\n<p>Pilot Glenn Ashby explains of the opportunistic window presented to the team. \u201cIn February we were really coming back to the lake pack up the craft. We had to get Horonuku and the containers back to New Zealand. But a few days out, Clouds our Meteorologist indicated there was a possible weather opportunity, so we rattled our daggs and got to the lake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Photo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sail-world.com\/photo\/408977\">\u00a9 Emirates Team New Zealand\/ James Somerset<\/a><\/p>\n<div class='avia-iframe-wrap'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"New Wind Powered Land Speed World Record - 225.58km\/h\" width=\"1500\" height=\"844\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jcO_ii1X_v4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two months after Emirates Team NZ first broke the world wind powered speed record, the team has returned to Lake Gairdner and broke the existing mark, which has now been ratified. The official Wind-Powered Land Speed World Record now stands at 225.58km\/h (140.17mph). Set in just 23 knots (42km\/h) of wind. The previous mark, set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7919,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en_news","category-en_newscast"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Emirates Team New Zealand sets a new wind powered land speed record - Guillaume Verdier<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/en\/emirates-team-new-zealand-sets-a-new-wind-powered-land-speed-record\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Emirates Team New Zealand sets a new wind powered land speed record - Guillaume Verdier\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Two months after Emirates Team NZ first broke the world wind powered speed record, the team has returned to Lake Gairdner and broke the existing mark, which has now been ratified. 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