Reese Mcgregor Just Ran 7.59 @ 192 Mph At Willowbank! New World Record!

[Marlin]

Just heard this time was run at Willowbank today! Great to hear! Gives HKS a hurry up, maybe they'll bring the 33 out of retirement?

I believe the previous record was 7.67 @ 181.7 mph?

From what I hear, Reese's car still has some time to come yet, with .1 of a second to find in the 60ft and raise the limiter so it's not banging hard up against it over the last 100ft or so.........

Jambo should be good!

[TommO]

Congrats to the NZ team, it's been one of the longest standing drag records ever and it's awesome to finally see it broken

It did have those issues last week when it was running the 7.7s... I'd say they've cleaned it up to hit 7.59, that's an AWESOME time.

HKS car won't come out of retirement, i'll put bets on that.

[wrxkilla]

THAT IS BLOODY FANTASTIC!

im cut i didnt realise they was testing today or i would have gone and got video footage

well done.

7.59 @ 192mph is MONSTEROUS!

That should improve with more time on aussie tracks...

oh and i'd bet my arse that the hks gtr wont be going anywhere lol.

mick

[Marlin]

Congrats alright!

Apparently, todays run was done with a rev limit of 9500. It was still hitting the limiter, so now they've worked out they need 11,000, so thats where it gonna be set! Work it out.... if it gets close to 11 grand, she'll crack 200mph!!!!!!!!! AWESOME!!!!!

It was also black-tracking the entire quarter, so she aint lacking!

Edited September 20, 2006 by Marlin

[wrxkilla]

so is it confirmed?

who at teh track is feeding the info?

[Marlin]

Info from Theo, I haven't had a bum-steer from him yet....

[wrxkilla]

I'll take that then

awesome

[2rismo]

Sensational. I said I doubted it would happen and I'm happy to stand corrected. Awesome result!

[MADGT4]

HKS car won't come out of retirement, i'll put bets on that.

I dunno how much truth there is to what i read but apprently its in the HKS workshop as we speak!

Either way its an awesome acheivement!

Congrats to the guys!

[Amaru]

According to someone on the GTROC-UK forums (the same someone that did HPI's HKS Evo Tsukaba car article, who was physically in the same room as the R33) the HKS R33 is sitting pretty after being freshly rebuilt, so I dare say once word trickles round it will be back out soon.

Edited September 20, 2006 by Amaru

[Beer Baron]

Congratulations that is a massive achievement.

would be great if HKS roll out there car again. bring back the GTR drag glory days of the 90s. Veilside have not been standing still either and when I was there earlier this year the owner told me they have now run a 7.6 on slicks with their 32 which smashed their previous best of 8.XX (poor memory) on radials. Not sure if their 7.6X was in testing or competition or what though. He told me it was just a bees dick off HKS's record.

[MR 33]

That is farken awesome!!! Can't wait for GTR700 too come back out.....aussie/nz finally puttin it up the japs!!

[MADGT4]

Yeah sorry to go off topic BUT can anyone confirm who owns GTR700 now?

Is Mario still the owner or has CRD taken ownership?

[2rismo]

He told me it was just a bees dick off HKS's record.

What is Japanese for Bee's Dick?

[Beer Baron]

lol, beesu diku.

from memory HKS had run 7.676 and veilside was either 7.678 or 7.68X. either way it was deffo 7.6something. I asked him about 3 times to make sure i didn't misunderstand.

[Amaru]

Yeah sorry to go off topic BUT can anyone confirm who owns GTR700 now?

Is Mario still the owner or has CRD taken ownership?

It will be CRD's car when it makes its return.

[NXTIME]

Congrats to the Heat Treatments team

Jambo will be a fanastic meet - looking forward to seeing many official record-breaking numbers!

Also, Rigoli has run an 8.1 in the 2 door 3.3L WRX STI, so plenty of 4wd action.

[wrxkilla]

that rex is now just rwd with the 3.3 six cyl

will do 7s at jambo

[Husky33]

Here's the video of the record breaking run

Reece McGregor 7.59sec

[2rismo]

that rex is now just rwd with the 3.3 six cyl

will do 7s at jambo

And it only uses $200 pistons!