The UK’s ‘fastest shed’ will be arriving in Gwynedd later this month to attempt a world speed record.

The vehicle – a motorised shed, as the name suggests – has already broken speed records in Wales, having hit 101mph on Pendine Sands, Carmarthenshire, last September.

The shed was built by Kevin Nicks, from Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, in 2015, and took a further two years to be fitted with a new suspension system and a more powerful engine. It has broken the world land speed record for sheds three times: in September 2017, May 2018 and September 2018.

Now it will be pushing itself further at Llanbedr Airfield, or Snowdonia Aerospace Centre, appearing alongside a range of powerful street bikes and modified cars as part of a Straightliners Speed Sprint event on Saturday and Sunday, 13 and 14 July.

The event will host half and quarter-mile land speed races in the region for the first time ever.

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