Nissan has set the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title for the fastest drift using the specially tuned MY16 Nissan GT-R by entering a drift at a speed of 304.96 km/hr or 189.49mph. Masato Kawabata, the Japanese drift champion series, set the new world record to clinch the top spot from former record holder Jakub Przygo?ski of Poland. The drift attempt was held during a special event that took place at Fujairah International Airport, UAE.
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“I’m sure it is the greatest lap of Formula 1 history.” Remembering Ayrton Senna’s sensational opening lap of Donington at the European Grand Prix in April 1993.
Drag racer Tommy Johnson, Jr., drove a Funny Car 326.08 mph in a thousand feet at Pomona Raceway in California late last year. Pomona is in the middle of the city, and was built when race cars weren’t so fast, and the runoff area at the end of the quarter-mile track is perilously short, and can’t be extended without rerouting roads.
That had to be the scariest ride on the circuit, right?
Wrong, says Johnson … More