Originally Posted by DanW@FastFord

Every time I see this on a forum, or on FB there are loads of people crying bullshit, and generally crying about it. It amazes me why that's the case.

It's blatantly obvious that it's massively modified specifically for the record atempt, with everything being as simple as it possibly can be. I've seen people even moan that "the bonnet wouldn't come off that quickly"

It's clear that there's only one wheel drive (hence the 'shimmy' at the end, that some people interpret as rear wheel drive)

Also, it was an official Guinness record - and take it from me, they don't mess about and there would be no way at all it would have got the record if it was a rear engined trick.