A brand new Guinness World Report has been set for the quickest mile pushed in reverse, with a time of 1:15.18.

The report was set June 15, 2022, by Scot Burner at NCM Motorsports Park, the racetrack hooked up to the Nationwide Corvette Museum in Bowling Inexperienced, Kentucky. Burner drove a C7 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray with a guide transmission. He used a guide as a result of its velocity in reverse is not ruled, and as an alternative maxes out when the engine reaches its most revolutions per minute. Automated vehicles are speed-governed in reverse.

Burner has a YouTube channel referred to as All the time in Reverse the place he drives numerous vehicles in reverse to see how briskly they’re going to go. He averaged 52.1 mph throughout his report run. In a Corvette video he made final November driving the identical automotive, he hit 54 mph in reverse on a public highway.

Based on the entry for the report on the Guinness World Information web site, Burner realized he might break the report after noticing the earlier report was a time he had already unofficially crushed. One in every of his movies exhibits him hitting a barely quicker prime velocity of 56 mph—in a Kia Sorento.

At the least one different driver has gone quicker in reverse with out formally claiming the fastest-mile report. Then Audi Formulation E driver Daniel Act hit 130 mph in Schaeffler Group’s electrical Audi RS 3 touring automotive in 2018, however apparently nobody timed him over a mile.

It is attainable to go too quick in reverse, not less than so far as security regulators are involved. In 2017, the Mercedes-AMG G65 was recalled as a result of the software program that restricted prime velocity in reverse wasn’t correctly calibrated, probably permitting automobiles to exceed the 16 mph deemed protected. Powered by a twin-turbocharged 6.5-liter V-12, the G65 was able to a claimed 0-60 mph in 5.3 seconds whereas going ahead, so it was in all probability a good suggestion to rein it in whereas backing up.