On Saturday 21st November 2009, the Fensport Celica set an astonishing top speed of 202.22 mph!!! at Woodbridge airfield near Ipswich.

Driven by Adrian Smith, the 700 horsepower Celica modified by Fensport, recorded 196.9mph on its 1st run complete with rear spoiler; this was an exploratory run to check braking distances. Everything checked out fine and it was now time to try for top speed.

Run 2, without the rear spoiler, was aborted at 199mph due to a crosswind catching the car and making the rear end unstable.

Run 3, in the words of Adrian, "The run started fine, I got wheel spin on the slippery start in the first 3 gears, but once in to 4th the car settled nicely, then at around 180mph a crosswind again started to move the car off line, however I kept my foot in and thankfully the car stayed straight and the wind subdued. I checked the speed and it was 201, then 202, I was thinking yes its going to do 205/206 but then a tiny misfire and the speed dropped to 201 again. By then it was time to brake!! I had done it 202.22mph what an amazing feeling" The misfire was later found to be the 8,300 rpm rev limit.

We had achieved a remarkable result and "Double Membership" of the very exclusive "200mph + club"

The Celica is now the second Fensport car to break the 200mph barrier; the feat was even more impressive as the speed was reached from a standing start in just 1.01 miles.

Click the video below to see how it was done

And here is the data logs taken on the day

Data from Racelogic Performance Box
0-60 in 3.15s
0-100 in 6.01s
0-150 in 11.75s
0-200 in 26.17s
0-200 in 1.01 miles
Amazing figures considering the damp and slippery start, with wheelspin in the first 3 gears !!!

Motec ECU log (above) Note how quickly the car accelerates through the first 4 gears, and some interesting numbers in the log are 8,346rpm, 2.1bar boost, 32 degrees air temp, 92% Injector duty (1000cc Injectors) and 5.8 bar fuel pressure!

200mph is not easy!! :) :) For full spec and build data of the Fensport Celica GT4 X click here

We would like to thank the following people, for their support, and for making it all possible.

THANK YOU all from Team Fensport, builders of the second 200mph road legal Toyota!

The full build and specifications can be found here