Motorist inadvertently sets new world record for driving on two wheels in rental car

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A motorist traveling across Europe in a cheap rental car has inadvertently set a new world record for driving on two wheels.

The motorist – who was just trying to get back to their rented villa in time for a long lunch – beat former record holder Terry Grant’s time of 2m 24.5s by a full minute in a 10-year-old Kia Picanto to become the new fastest mile travelled in a car on two wheels.

Guinness World Record adjudicators noted conditions on the day of the record were said to be ‘nonchalant’.

“We’ve seen many attempts on Terry Grant’s long-standing record of driving a quick mile on two wheels in a car, but none were performed with such utter disregard for mechanical sympathy or even any vague notion of what they were doing,” a GWR spokesperson said.

“Yes, there’s a long-running joke amongst enthusiastic motorists that rental cars are indeed the fastest cars on the planet and should be driven on their door handles at every opportunity.

“But this new world record that saw a cheap, rented, 200,000-mile Picanto hoon up a picturesque mountain pass on a Tuesday morning quite literally on its door handles in record time beggars belief.

“We may never see its like again,” the spokesperson added.

GWR adjudicators later noted the same motorist may well have inadvertently broken another record, this time for the tightest gap driven through by a car on two wheels.

“Outta my way, rookies, that pasta’s not gonna eat itself,” the motorist was later reported as saying.