LONDON: No joke, this tractor can race at over 240kph, putting many cars to shame. This is a true story about humanity's attempt at building the world's fastest tractor — because they can.

Williams Advanced Engineering has worked as an important part of a project team to support JCB’s world record attempt to build the world’s fastest tractor.

Using its expertise in aerodynamics, Williams Advanced Engineering’s brief was to maximise the aerodynamic performance of the tractor, without compromising the integral shape of the vehicle.



Taking the standard JCB Fastrac tractor, the team analysed four key areas which together, delivered the biggest reduction in drag and largest gain.

In all, Williams Advanced Engineering ran more than 65 individual Computational Fluid Dynamics simulations.

The result was a reduction in drag of 25% over the standard Fastrac tractor and, in the hands of motorbike racer, lorry mechanic and TV presenter Guy Martin, the vehicle went on to hit  247.47kph with an average speed of 217.57kph at Elvington Airfield securing the Guinness record for the world’s fastest tractor.

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