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Is 1,510,000 yards per hour as fast as Usain Bolt?

It's about forty times as fast as Usain Bolt
The speed of Usain Bolt is about 40,600 yards per hour.
(at the Beijing Olympics, 2008) (a.k.a. Usain St. Leo Bolt, OJ, C.D.) (sprinter; 1986-)
Setting a world record, Usain Bolt ran a 100 m in 0:09.69 for an average speed of 40,700 yards per hour at the 2008 Olympics. Furthermore, Bolt's margin of record breaking — 0.03 s — is the largest margin of victory in the history of digital measurements.
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