20th-century American motorsport driver and land speed record holder
Gary Michael Gabelich (Croatian Gabelić; August 29, 1940 – January 26, 1984) was an American motorsport driver who set the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) Land Speed Record (LSR) with the rocket car Blue Flame on October 23, 1970,[1] on a dry lake bed at Bonneville Salt Flats near Wendover, Utah.[2][3]
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^Ferguson, George. "The Run Was A Natural Gas". Sports Illustrated November 09, 1970.
Gary Michael Gabelich (Croatian Gabelić; August 29, 1940 – January 26, 1984) was an American motorsport driver who set the Fédération Internationale de...
Flame is a rocket-powered land speed racing vehicle that was driven by GaryGabelich and achieved a world land speed record on Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah...
flying start). The record was set on October 23, 1970, by the American GaryGabelich with Blue Flame, a rocket car on the Bonneville Salt Flats. Richard...
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debuts in approximately two dozen newspapers in the United States. GaryGabelich drives the rocket-powered Blue Flame to an official land speed record...
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seeking to destroy Communist forces during the siege of Plei Me. 1970 – GaryGabelich sets a land speed record in a rocket-powered automobile called the Blue...
to the Walk of Fame. Only one person has been posthumously inducted, GaryGabelich, the former world land speed record holder in 2008. Katherine Legge...
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Newman, Kirk Douglas, Greg Morris, Karen Valentine, Craig Breedlove, and GaryGabelich. The National Anthem was sung by The Supremes. Shortly after the release...
AFL. 22 September 2015. Archived from the original on 1 February 2016. Gabelich, Josh (31 August 2016). "Riewoldt named in AFLCA All Australian team"....
805 km/h) return pass), which held until 1970. (It would be broken by GaryGabelich's Blue Flame, which reached 630.388 mph (1,014.511 km/h).) To take the...