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How do you stop a 1,000-mph car? With the world's strongest brakes

How do you stop a 1,000-mph car? With the world's strongest brakes

The British-based Bloodhound SSC team has been working for years on the ultimate land-speed record car — a jet-and-rocket powered beast that will in theory produce 187,000 hp en route to hitting 1,000 mph, or 240 mph more than the current record set in 1997. And as hard as it is to go that fast, the Bloodhound SSC also has to stop, forcing the team to build what may be the strongest brakes ever devised.