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Thirty years ago this month, a Hollywood stuntman with balls the size of celestial objects lit the fuse of his Budweiser rocket car on a dry lake bed at Edwards Air Force Base and blasted off into the greatest controversy in land-speed-racing history. Driver Stan Barrett insists that he broke the sound barrier eighteen years before Andy Green officially managed this feat in the ThrustSSC. But for various reasons, Barrett's one-way run wasn't recognized by the FIA, so it's been relegated to a footnote in the annals of LSR racing.inline_mediumwraptextright30994305/features/news/0912_stan_barrett_greatest_record_never_set0912_01_z+stan_barrett+breaking_sound_barrier.jpgTrue