Formula One cars travel in excess of 200 miles (almost 322 km) per hour. The official F1 speed record is 231.4 miles (372.5 km) per hour, set by Valtteri Bottas during the 2016 Mexico City Grand Prix race. Bottas also set an unofficial race weekend speed record of 234.9 miles (378 km) per hour during a qualifying session at the 2016 European Grand Prix in Baku, Azerbaijan. The official FIA-sanctioned land speed record by an F1 car is about 247 miles (397.5 km) per hour, set by South African F1 test driver Alan van der Merwe at the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, in 2006. During testing in the Mojave Desert the team recorded a top speed of 256.7 miles (413.2 km) per hour.
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