The SSC circus continues to roll through town with more and more news every week. The gasoline continues to pour on the SSC Tuatara dumpster-fire-of-a world record run they claimed to have achieved last month on the tenth of October<\/a>.<\/p>\n Shortly after the record, I wrote a lengthy article<\/a> about YouTubers and other various internet users digging into the record-setting video with their investigations concluding the entire video to be a fraud.<\/p>\n Jerod Shelby, owner and founder of SSC, immediately went into full damage control and blamed the video editors for the issue<\/strong> after being caught lying about DEWETRON – an accredited \u00a0GPS data-measurement instrument manufacturer – confirming the record (DEWETRON denied this claim).<\/p>\n Just like every horror movie you’ve ever seen, the main protagonist in this story continues to fall from grace. Engineering Explained<\/a> put out a 22 minute expose on youtube<\/a> yesterday detailing the mathematics and physics behind the run and concludes using his scientific knowledge and research that the car probably traveled closer to a speed between 224 mph and 243 mph.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Engineering Explained also managed to get Jarod Shelby on a phone call to get some extra details for his equations, adding a heavy layer of legitimacy to his claims and calculations.<\/p>\n This means that despite the hype, the Tuatara is still nowhere near as fast as the Koenigsegg Agera RS that currently holds the record with its 284.55 mph run<\/strong>. Shelby claims that the Tuatara has a ‘theoretical top speed’ of 345 mph (breaking the coveted 500 kph barrier), but in order for that claim to be legitimate, we’re going to have to see a real video without all the tom-foolery involved.<\/p>\n