Red Victor: Britain's Fastest Road Legal Car

Ridiculous Rides

Andy Frost's Red Victor 3 held the World street legal quarter-mile speed record for more than two years.  The car carries a 3000 plus horsepower V8 engine that, from a standing start could assist it hitting speeds of 226mph over a quarter-of-a mile.

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00:00Hurtling forwards at speeds of 226 miles per hour, this is the view from inside Britain's

00:13fastest road legal car.

00:15Sweet as a nut.

00:19Red Victor 3 carries a 3,000 horsepower V8 engine that can propel it from 0 to 60 in

00:25under a second.

00:26Yet you can still see owner Andy Frost taking it out for a spin around the streets of Wolverhampton.

00:34Andy has dedicated his life to the project, spending thousands converting a humble Vauxhall

00:39Victor into the speed demon you see today.

00:43So Andy's got everything invested in this, time, this is a 30 year project for him because

00:50realistically this started with Red Victor 1, the original Red Victor that he bought as

00:54of VX490 way back whenever.

00:57So this is an evolution of that sort of let's say dream and so he's got every single thing

01:03in his life for 30 years invested in what's sitting right behind me.

01:07But Andy's efforts were once again paid back when at the Santa Pod Raceway in Bedfordshire,

01:13the 53 year old broke his own speed record by covering a quarter of a mile in just 6.4 seconds.

01:19640 to your 25.

01:21640.

01:22640.

01:23640.

01:24Oh, come on you f***er, come on.

01:32Andy's world record has just been broken by an American team, but he has failed to go even

01:37faster.

01:39And with investors already backing him financially, next year Red Victor will surely be back to

01:44claim its crown.

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