Meet one of the fastest* Nissan GT-Rs in the world – a heavily tuned example that clocked a crushing 7.168 second quarter mile.

An R35 Nissan GT-R tuned by EKanooRacing leapt off the line at the Bahrain Drag Racing Championship (BRDC) to hit 18 metres (60 feet) in 1.208sec, covering an Olympic-sized swimming pool (50m or one-eighth of a mile) in 4.795sec at 262km/h and 400m in 7.168sec at a staggering 336km/h (209mph).

Nissan GT-R racing down drag strip

EKanooRacing is no stranger to mightily wound-up drag racers. An absurd Toyota 86 Pro Import clocked a 5.85sec quarter at 394km/h – definitely not with the standard 2.0-litre atmo four, then.

Time record set

*When run the pass made Ekanoo Racing builders of the fastest GT-R in the world. However, a rivalry for that title has quickly emerged from America’s AMS Performance and its Alpha-G GT-R – which has since pinched the title with a 7.14sec pass. Story to come.