In 2006, while filming an episode for the series Top Gear, presenter and driver Richard Hammond was critically injured in a crash with the jet dragster, Vampire, that he was piloting.
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In 2012 she was selected to drive the North American Eagle Project jet car in which she will be attempting to break the land speed record for a woman (currently 512 mph).