The first casualty in pursuit of the record was perhaps the ironically named Englishman Sir Henry Seagrave, who in 1930 set the world record at 99 mph (159 kph).
They looked whipped by wind, and for good reason — Sustained wind speeds in Neptune's atmosphere have been clocked at over 2000 kph: Faster than the speed of sound on Earth!
An Englishman named John Cobb wanted to be the first person to break the 200 mph (320 kph) speed barrier and built a jet-powered boat called Crusader to do it.