GamesRadar breaks Guinness World Record at Sega Rally

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Watch the fastest verified time in the world on the Desert course

The previous record (2'30"80) for a 3-lap run on the Desert course stood since 2002 and was held by Christiano T Assumpcao from Brazil (printed in the book). But, despite our pretty crappy first run of 2'33"21, we figured we were in with a shout. Three days of practise later, we finally achieved a 2'30"73. And yes, it was very, very difficult.

And because a screenshot isn't proof alone,here's the in-car actual run as it happened, with cutaway footage from thereplay.

Our run was witnessed by several people outside the GR team, including the editor of Gamesmaster magazine. And, after sending the unedited in-car video and our witness statements to the Guinness World Records, we got this:

If anyone out there has a Saturn still and fancies a pop, it's probably possible to beat this time. We did drop a tenth of a second or so on the penultimate corner, getting far too close to the wall for comfort in the chicane (at the time we thought we'd hit it). And we also only used a standard Saturn pad - a steering wheel would probably yield smoother cornering and therefore better times.

Of course there are also records for newer games. And you can propose your own records too - so if you reckon you can do the first level of Gears of War 2 faster than anyone else, why nottry applying? Or maybe we could get Mikel to go for most successive knife kills in Killzone 2...

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Justin Towell
Justin Towell
Freelance Writer

Justin was a GamesRadar+ staffer for 10 years but is now a freelance writer, musician and videographer. He's big on retro, Sega and racing games (especially retro Sega racing games) and currently also writes for Play Magazine, Traxion.gg, PC Gamer and TopTenReviews, as well as running his own YouTube channel. Having learned to love all platforms equally after Sega left the hardware industry (sniff), his favourite games include Christmas NiGHTS into Dreams, Zelda BotW, Sea of Thieves, Sega Rally Championship and Treasure Island Dizzy.