Nissan Middle East FZE has sped into the record books after extremely brave driver Masato Kawabata (Japan) achieved the Fastest vehicle drift
ever at a staggering 304.96 km/h (189.49 mi/h), while driving a Nissan
GT-R Nismo during an event at Fujairah International Airport, UAE, last
month.
The
drift champion broke the Guinness World Records title three times at
273.39, 304.96 and 296.79 km/h with an angulation of 55.21°, 33.56° and
34.42° respectively, traveling down the 3 km long airstrip.
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Kawabata
and Nissan significantly bettered the previous record of 217.973 km/h
(135.44 mi/h) which was achieved by Jakub Przygonski (Poland) at Biala
Podlaska Airport near Warsaw, Poland, in 2013.
The
Nissan GT-R Nismo car used for the attempt was specially-tuned by
GReddy Trust in order to maximize its agility and stability.
Samir
Cherfan, Managing Director of Nissan Middle East commented on the
incredible achievement: “Once again, Nissan has again broken a Guinness
World Records title and has made international history in the UAE. The
GT-R Nismo is one of the world’s most iconic supercars, proving time and
again the incredible breadth of its capabilities, and has clearly
demonstrated its performance leadership by beating the best drift cars
out there.”
Not
the first time this vehicle has entered the record books, a Nissan GT-R
achieved an acceleration of 0–60 mph (0–100 km) in 3.5 seconds while
completing a lap of the Nürburgring circuit in Nürburg, Germany in 2008,
to earn the Guinness World Records title Fastest 0-60mph acceleration by a four seater production car.