FASTER THAN 400 MPH

There are only 13 people in the world who have driven faster than 400 mph in a piston-powered car. George Poteet did it more times than the other 12 combined. The King of Amateur Landspeed Racing, who said he never got a speeding ticket, has died at 76. He topped 400 mph at least 55 times, in a carbon-fiber-clad vehicle called “The Speed Demon”. -TWSJ

(Photo: Mark Gewertz, The Wall Street Journal)