Scot Burner channeled his inner 'Fast & Furious' by clocking an average of 48 miles per hour for an entire mile in reverse to set a world record.
Maybe he just likes driving cars backward. Either way, Scot Burner's reverse driving just parked him in the Guinness World Records.Burner, who has built a YouTube following with his channel,has a track record of driving cars backward to determine their top speed. Vehicles on the market are limited to how fast they can go in reverse as a safety precaution, never going above 60 mph. They can go over 100 mph in reverse – like in a"Fast & Furious" movie – only by being modified.
Driving his 2017 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray, the native of Nashville, Tennessee, accomplished the feat June 15 at the National Corvette Museum Motorsports Park track in Bowling Green, Kentucky. It wasBurner burned through the mile-long course with a time of 1 minute, 15.18 seconds to shatter the record 1 minute, 37 seconds set in 2012 by the U.K.'s Nissan Leaf. While his average speed was 48 mph, he topped his car out as fast as it goes in reverse – at 54 mph.
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