THE team behind a car designed to travel at more than 1,000mph will be in Oxford with their supersonic creation.

The Bloodhound car and its crew will be in the city as part of an Oxford University open afternoon to demonstrate how the institution’s supercomputing facility can help researchers.

People have been invited to come along on Tuesday to see the car, meet the team and experience what it would be like to drive the car in a simulator.

The team will be in Keble Road from 9am until 4.30pm, with the road closed for the day to accommodate the 13.4m long rocket-powered vehicle.

Oxford University spokeswoman Clementine Harris said: “The Bloodhound car is part of a project that aims to break the landspeed record by travelling at over 1,000mph, literally faster than a speeding bullet.

“It will be driven by RAF fighter pilot and Oxford graduate Andy Green.

“We are also doing this to promote the update of science by kids.

“We often find it hard to recruit people into the Oxford eResearch Centre and in general high performance computing with the right skills and interest.

“Kids are not being taught this well enough in life to encourage them to do this later on.

“The Bloodhound Education programme is trying to do this and joining forces with them on the day of our launch event seemed a great thing to do.”