Our thoughts go out to the friends and family of Ralph Hudson.
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Land Speed Racing Community Mourns the Loss of Ralph Hudson
World Record holder Ralph Hudson has succumbed to injuries sustained in a crash at Bonneville Speed Week

Alhambra, CA (September 8, 2020) ? The land speed racing community mourns the loss of Ralph Hudson, legendary land speed racer and FIM World Record holder. Hudson, known as the ?Quiet Giant? to his peers, passed away on September 6 in Salt Lake City, over three weeks after sustaining a crash at the Bonneville Salt Flats. He was 69 years old.
Hudson is the current FIM World Record holder for the all-time fastest sit-on motorcycle (non-streamliner) at 297 mph (478 km/h) set in Bolivia, July 2018. It has been Hudson?s dream to set the record at over 300 mph, a dream he shared with fellow competitor and friend Al Lamb. The duo?s back and forth battle in the quest for 300 mph has been an ongoing saga that captured the attention of the land speed community, especially when it took Hudson and Lamb all the way to Bolivia in 2017 to the Salar de Uyuni, the largest salt flat in the world, which offers a much longer runway for racers, a searing altitude of 12,000 feet, and more consistent surface for racing than the thinning Bonneville Salt Flats. At the 2017 event, Hudson capitalized on the thinner air and longer runway of the Bolivian Salar and bumped the record up to 284 mph aboard his turbo-charged Suzuki GSX-R1000-based partially s...