Watch: 426mph flying mile

Palms inconveniently dry? Heart rate annoyingly slow? Finger nails irritatingly unchomped? Panic not, internet user. This video will help.

It shows 63-year-old hot rodder and racer, George Poteet, setting a new C/BFS record of 390.709mph during this year's Bonneville Speed Week in the USA.

What the hell's C/BFS? Saltspeak for a streamliner running a fuel-burning forced-induction engine displacing between 306 (5014cc) and 372 cubic inches (6095cc), actually.

Poteet's car, rightfully named ‘Speed Demon' falls into the bigger end of the displacement scale - his V8's 347 cubic inches (5686cc) and has two Turbonetics turbos, which boost power to a 2,200bhp. Which is rather a lot.

Though it tends to help when you're trying to go very very fast. Which Poteet dutifully did. He broke the old C/BFS record of 366.043 mph and nearly earned the prestigious Hot Rod Magazine trophy for the fastest measured (416.539 mph).

Alas, he wasn't able to back up his time as the rules require so it didn't count. But during the run he became one of very few people to see 426.910mph on his speedometer.

Now go make those palms sweaty. Then watch the boys driving muscle cars at Bonneville.