Kawabata Masato, a Japanese drifting series champion, has set a Guinness World Record for the fastest drift – achieving a speed of 304.96 km/h while at a drift of 30 degrees.
Masato and Nissan set the record during an event on a 3-kilometre runway at Fujarirah International Airport in the United Arab Emirates.
The car was a 1,380-horsepower GT-R specially tuned by Nismo specialists to send all the power to the rear wheels. In the video, which looks more like a blockbuster movie trailer, Masato hits a top speed of 350 km/h before throwing the car into the drift.
The record was broken March 3, but Nissan only released the video Thursday.
Masato obliterated the record set in 2013 by Polish driver Jakub Przygonski, who went 217 km/h in a modified Toyota 86.
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