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not properly, leaving Mohammed with a hand-
ful of steering wheel and a foot full of the brake
pedal, taking both front tires down to the wheels
and performing his best drift impression to scrub
speed before the sand trap. He was able to keep
the car out of the kitty litter, but did have a slight
scrub with the concrete retaining wall since he
lost steering. After the 278.79-mph run down the
quarter mile and only one parachute worth of
stopping power, he was able to save the record-
holding Lexus and himself from major damage.
The EKanoo Racing Lexus RC-F relies upon a
521 ci Pro Line Racing-built HEMI powerplant
with a set of Precision Turbo Gen III 94 mm
turbochargers supplying the boost through the
intake manifold to propel the chassis, fabricated
in Bahrain at EKanoo Racing. Billet Atomizer
Injectors flow the methanol through the engine
into the cylinders for combustion and the cus-
tom software MoTeC M150 Vehicle Management
System controls each individual cylinder’s timing
halid Mohammed put his safety
gear, seat belts and HANS Device
on, just as if it was any other pass.
EKanoo Racing team principal Ebra-
him Kanoo stood a longside his Lexus RC-F mas-
terpiece, just as if it was any other pass. In just
5.379 seconds, it was more than just any other
run down the 1,320 feet of concrete at the Bahrain
International Circuit (BIC).
While the EKanoo team was preparing for
another Bahrain Drag Racing Championship
(BDRC) event, the Pro Boost Lexus was making
some strong runs to the eighth mile during test-
ing. But as the test session came to a close, the
team made the decision to let Mohammed string
it out the backdoor to go after the ever-elusive
5.3-second barrier and the 280-mph mark for a
doorslammer.
The EKanoo Lexus’s previous best was a 5.437
elapsed time and was in the running for the
next great barrier in doorslammer racing. On
February 28, 2018, the 5.3-second barrier was
knocked down by Mohammed, Kanoo, Haider
Mohammed, Shane Tecklenburg, Jamie Miller,
Mikey Rees and the entire EKanoo team with an
astounding time slip that boasted a .959 60-foot
time and stopped the eighth-mile timers in just
3.615 seconds. It rocketed through the back half
of the racetrack in just 1.764 seconds to record
the quickest and fastest pass for a doorslammer
in the history of drag racing, 5.379 at 278.79 miles
per hour. Mohammed lifted off the loud pedal and
as the front end came back to the pavement, a
shower of sparks came from underneath the car
as the titanium chassis savers did their job, but at
the same moment, the passenger-side door skin
ripped free of the Lexus RC-F body.
As this all happened, Mohammed pulled the
parachutes, but only one deployed and even then,
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