Remember the name Bill Warner. He is a mild-mannered tropical fish farmer and marine biologist who turns into a mad scientist on race weekends, and has just recorded 278 mph (around 450 km/h) to push the performance envelope and boundaries of two-wheeled insanity that is land-speed racing, and the Texas Mile in particular.
Bill Warner rode his turbocharged, 1299cc Wild Brothers Racing Suzuki Hayabusa to 278.6 mph at the Texas Mile on October 25, a new record that upped its “World’s Fastest Streetbike” status by 5.3 mph over a July, 2010 run in Loring, Maine.
278 mph hero
Out of 76 motorcycles and 173 cars, Bill Warner was also easily the fastest vehicle at the Texas Mile, an annual event which is held at an industrial airport in Goliad, Texas. In this mechanical madness, competitors leave from a standing start, have a mile to reach terminal velocity and another half mile of tarmac to get their machines stopped. The ideal motorcycle has to have plenty of power, brakes like an F1 car and a rider with big cojones!
This guy Bill Warner is a real hero!
