Just in case you ad taken a break from all social media for the last couple of weeks, Jose Luis from BK Built absolutely decimated his own standing world record of 135mph set over three years ago with a blistering new all-time top speed of 142 miles per hour aboard a 1,400-plus horsepower turbocharged Yamaha GP1800R SVHO.
Achieved early Saturday morning, October 14th during the most recent HydroDrags at Lions Park in Lake Alfred, Florida; Luis and the BK Built team absolutely shook the crowd with the record-breaking pass. Instantly, rival teams protested the speed run citing a malfunctioning GPS. Only recently did event officials overturn the initial decision to not count Luis’ run.
The Racing Channel recorded the weekend’s racing, subsequent drama and squeezed in a couple of interviews: beginning with Luis and Brian Kirchberger (the owner of BK Built), and with FuelTech CEO Anderson Dick where TRC chatted up some of the smartest guys in the sport about 4-cylinders running compound turbos pushing 60-plus pounds of boost, methanol and nitrous.
