Amazing vintage press photograph showing the Swesda Soviet land speed record car.

Some details from the German Caption (Translated by Chat GPT so may not be 100% accurate)

• Driver: A. Ambrosenkow (A. Ambrosenkov), Soviet racing driver and "Master of Sports"

• Car: "Swesda" (transliteration of Russian "Звезда", meaning "Star")

• Engine class: 350cc and 500cc classes

• Achievements:

  • New world records in 1953 for 1 km with flying start (182 km/h)

  • 50 km record: completed in 17 minutes 26 seconds

  • Average speed: 172.084 km/h — surpassing the previous class record by over 13 km/h