That 29,000 number jumps to over 86,000 when you count every different printing, including alternate art versions, extended art treatments, and showcase frames
The initial speed increase to 1 happens immediately upon controlling a permanent with start your engines, and you cant respond to it
You're in luck
Wheels usually draw a full grip of cards all at once, making them ideal for payoffs like Thought Reflection (or the speed variant, Vnwxt, Verbose Host), Niv-Mizzet, Parun, or Psychosis Crawler
A creatures activated ability with the tap symbol or the untap symbol in its activation cost cant be activated unless the creature has been under its controllers control continuously since his or her most recent turn began