Craig Breedlove b.1937
THE MAN WHO inherited the mantle of the Campbells as the most obsessed with the Land Speed Record became the fastest man on Earth no fewer than five times. Always piloting his jet-powered Spirit of America ‘cars’, he was the first to top 500mph and 600mph at ground level and fought memorable battles with Walt and Art Arfons, echoing the pre-war tit-for-tats of Segrave, Cobb, Campbell and Eyston.
Despite initially maintaining a day job as an aircraft engineer,
