Schneider Trophy

Innovations from Formula One found their way into road cars, and the pre-Second World War Schneider Trophy seaplane races helped in the design of the Spitfire.

It was the 75th Anniversary dinner of the Schneider Trophy, back in 2006, where the idea of Bloodhound as an "Engineering Adventure" was born.

The Rolls-Royce Type R engine, from the Schneider Trophy air race programme, gave him 2,300hp to play with.

This broke the record set by his team earlier that year during a competition for the Schneider Trophy, in five races around the waters of the Solent, in the UK, watched by hundreds of thousands of people.

The Schneider trophy was crucial to the defeat of Germany, says pilot John Russell.