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Nissan Breaks the Longest Twin Car Drift Record

Drifting got popular in the Middle East in 2009, after the first regional competition got launched. It was pretty normal to catch on, since they like do drift every crappy car on the highway at insane speeds. It was just a matter of time, and this also applies to breaking records too.
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Yep, Nissan Middle East and the Prodfit Academy teamed up, took a pair of 370Z coupes and decided to break the Guinness World Record for “Longest Twin Vehicle Drifting”.

And they did it after the two cars, driven by Jordanian Ahmad Daham and Irish James Deane, managed to go sideways for 28.5 km (17.72 miles) without stopping on the wet asphalt of a parking lot, a feat that took 44 minutes.

“With today’s accomplishment of setting a new Guinness World Records title, we have proven again the strength of our vehicles by adding another Guinness World Records record to our list,” said Nissan Middle East Manage Director, Samir Cherfan. “The Nissan Z is a very popular car in the drifting scene, and this new record is yet another proof on the ability of this car to make drifting look so easy.”

The previous record, set by Guinness themselves, was 25 km (15.5 miles), which got successfully beaten by Nissan in just two attempts. However, compared to the 144.126 km (89.55 miles) long drift ever made by Harald Muller this summer, what Nissan did here looks like a piece of cake.

Guess they didn’t sweat too much, since the score to beat was quite small. And let’s not forget that tandem drifting is the hardest one to perform, requiring almost double the concentration not to bump the other car and work smoothly all the time.

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