As you know, the Nissan GT-R tuning scenes has gone beyond wild, with the most potent members of the customised Godzilla club delivering north of 2,000 HP at the wheels these days. When you’re playing at this level of grunt, safety is not something you can always stick to.
An example as good as any comes in the video below, which shows one of these extreme examples of Godzilla pulling a 222 MPH (that’s 357 KM/H if you’re reading this across the pond) pass that went wrong.
The GT-R was stretching the boosted legs of its VR38DETT engine during a half-mile pass at the time. After hitting the sweet velocity mentioned above, the driver started the deceleration phase and this is where things went down the drain.
For reasons that remain unknown, the driver failed to stop on time, with the car veering to the right and entering a dusty field at about 180 MPH (290 KM/H).
The event where the GT-R was demonstrating its capabilities saw the participant machines hitting the runway of the New Coalinga Municipal Airport in California. We mentioned this since the area includes a concrete ditch at the end of the runway, but luckily the GT-R didn’t reach that. As you can imagine, this could've easily turned into a disastrous situation for both man and machine.
Sure, the impromptu softroading sessions wasn’t a pleasure. Especially since the GT-R hit a set of airport lights. Nevertheless, only a rim was damaged in the process, so the tuned supercar won’t be wearing any battle scars after this nasty episode.
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