Amateur daredevils on the nearby Cresta Run can almost match the bobsleigh speeds of up to 140 kilometers per hour.
About four minutes later, the announcer said the Soyuz was traveling at 4, 700 miles per hour (about 7, 500 kilometers per hour).
It also lacks such civilized touches as a clutch or a transmission--again, too much weight--so even with the engine idling, it wants to go about 80 kilometers per hour.
Hamilton is expected to return to the track on Friday following the collision, which saw the car career on straight for some 70 meters at 280 kilometers per hour.
The wind has also been particularly strong, in some cases over 70 kilometers per hour (43 miles per hour), which makes the wind chill much colder than the air temperature.
In the video, a motorcyclist is seen reaching a speed of 299 kilometers per hour (186 mph) weaving between cars, but authorities think his actual speed may have been even faster.
They, too, have radar, but the antenna over their heads sweeps the sky every 12 seconds, leaving plenty of time in between sweeps for collisions between planes traveling at 725 kilometers per hour.
From a research station operated by the National Science Foundation called Summit Camp, a spot where the ice sheet is about 2 miles thick, GROVER will crawl at an average speed of 1.2 mph (2 kilometers per hour).
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Attend a Formula One race, and you can expect to be swept up in the sights and sounds of cars rounding the track at 300 kilometers per hour, the high-pitched whine of their engines competing with the shouts from the crowd.
Jean Romagnoli, sports medic and personal trainer working to get the miners in shape for their rescue, said the Phoenix capsule would be hoisted to the surface at a speed of about 60 kilometers per hour and would exert about 2 Gs of pressure on the miners.
Real Madrid star striker Karim Benzema was clocked driving 216 kilometers per hour (about 134 mph) -- more than double the speed limit -- before dawn on February 3 on a Madrid highway, and he could lose his license for at least a year, a Traffic Directorate spokeswoman told CNN.
When not otherwise clambering up the world's tallest sailing ships, the award-winning photographer can be found hanging from a helicopter in a harness traveling 160 kilometers per-hour in hot pursuit of Powerboat World Champion competitors.
The airplane reached a cruising altitude of 19, 000 feet (5, 791 meters), and a speed of up to 250 knots, or about 288 miles per hour (463 kilometers).
They top out at 60 kilometers (37.5 miles) per hour.
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They had to keep a taxi under control while cruising across concrete flooded with water, and bring a taxi to a screeching halt after reaching speeds above 100 kilometers an hour, or about 60 miles per hour.
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