From the land of sleeping policemen and speed cameras, gizmag brings news that will touch the inner hoon in all of us. Londoner Tim Brady is now the new British national automobile speeding ticket record holder. Brady broke the old record by 16mph, by doing 172mph (277kph) in a 3.6 liter Porsche 911 Turbo "borrowed" from his employer, a luxury car rental company. After the police clocked him, it took Brady almost 2300 ft (700 meters) to stop. Brady is now serving a 10-week jail sentence and lost his license for his actions. By the way, he still didn't beat the record for the top speed ever recorded on a British roadway. That belongs to motorcyclist Daniel Nicks who registered 175mph (282kph) on a Honda Fireblade. But the Brits still have a way to go to beat the Yanks– American Samuel Armstrong still holds the world speeding ticket record by doing 205mph (330kph) on a Honda RC51 superbike.
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Never mind mocking the boring clowns from the Automotive Oil Change Association. Get Sam Armstrong on the phone. Your first question should be, “Are you nuts?”
“But the Brits still have a way to go to beat the Yanks– American Samuel Armstrong still holds the world speeding ticket record by doing 205mph (330kph) on a Honda RC51 superbike.”
My question to him is – if you were doing 205 MPH – why the heck did you stop for the cops!?
Armstrong’s daddy is a sheriff, nothing like a little sense of immunity to get you going. He was spotted from an airplane traversing 1/4 mile measured zone in around 4 seconds. The roadblock up the road stopped him to present the award.
I think you’d need a pretty good desert tailwind and a lot of road to get an RC51 to 205. Or else the bike was modded and this guy weighs 130, like a WSB rider. I have no trouble believing the CBR1000 speed however. Whatever happened to the ghostrider video, you know, the guy with the naked Busa regularly clocking 310 Kph in Germany, taunting the constabulary the whole time.
I feel really lame for having been ticketed in Belmont County doing 74 in a 65 zone.
who is pocketglen.com, and why is he reproducing the TTAC website news feed?
I think Kazuhiko “Smoky” Nagata, founder of the Japanese tuning company Top Secret, still has that record. In 1999, he was arrested after piloting a RB26 powered Supra down the M1 motorway, going 318 km/h.
It wasn’t an RB26. It was the 3S-GTE, displacement increased to 2.2L, with a big ol’ T8834D turbo.
You have it confused with the Supra he built for Japanese Grand Touring Cup competition.
http://www.topsecretjpn.com/gallery.shtml
And to correct my previous post, it was the A1 he was arrested on, not the M1
http://www.suprastore.com/topsecsuport.html
According to the Ex Vi Termini Article first done reight after the 200mph run, it was the 3S-GTE motor. Everything I’ve read done independently on the run says its the 3S-GTE.
The US “Record” is bogus…
An RC51 has a top speed of ~180 MPH. Its ONLY a 1L and ONLY a twin.
If you want to break the double-ton, you need a ZX-14R or Hiyabusa, and both need to be derestricted (they come stock with 180 MPH limiters)
Option Video #58 has footage of Natata’s run, and it doesn’t sound like a 3S-GTE engine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAyE-SUYcj0
Video #66 shows his arrest