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How do you get within a hair’s breadth of 300 mph? You can strap into a Top Fuel dragster or any of a number of mid-size aircraft. Or you can send this twin-turbo Ford GT down a mile-long stretch of pavement. From a halt, it’ll get to nearly 300 by the end of that distance.
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NCS Designs’ video shows M2K Motorsports’ heavily modified Ford GT obliterating the standing-mile world record at the Texas Mile on March 26. The Ford, running a fire-breathing 5.4-liter V-8 but appearing nearly stock from the outside, hit the end of the mile doing an astounding 293.6 mph.
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Watch for yourself:
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M2K Motorsports’ decisive standing-mile performance smashes the Guinness world record set by Johnny Bohmer, whose similar Ford GT hit 283.232 in the standing mile in October 2012.
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The Texas Mile, run on a 1.5-mile-long airstrip at Victoria Regional Airport in Victoria, Texas, hosts standing-mile competitions for street cars, race cars, motorcycles, and land speed vehicles.
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We have just one question: If this GT can knock on the door of 300 mph in the span of a mile, what could it do on the wide-open 5.4-mile straightaway of Volkswagen’s Ehra-Lessien track, the 12-mile loop where the German automaker clocked the top speed of the various Bugatti Veyron variants?
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This story originally appeared on Road & Track.
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