Greg Murphy 2 minutes 06.8594 seconds
Greg Murphy holds the qualifying lap record of 2 minutes 06.8594 seconds
A stopwatch to record lap times .
In motorsport, the fastest lap is the quickest lap run during a race. Some series, like A1 Grand Prix and the GP2 series, award bonus points to the driver/team with the fastest lap. In Formula One, where until 1960 drivers were awarded a point for setting fastest lap, Michael Schumacher holds the current record for the most fastest laps with 76.
2 min 38 sec 2 Minutes 6.8594 seconds by Greg Murphy while qualifying for the 2003 Bathurst 1000 (more than a second faster than the next best time)
The fastest qualifying lap (in MPH) in NASCAR History took place at Talladega Superspeedway in 1987. Bill Elliott turned in a lap of 212.809 MPH to become the fastest man in NASCAR with a record that will never be broken in NASCAR.
Mike Gartner set the record in 1996 for skating a lap in 13.386 seconds.
2 Minutes 6.8594 seconds by Greg Murphy
The fastest single lap (2.5 miles) record was set in 1996 by Arie Luyendyk was a speed of 237.498 mph.
Bill Elliott holds the record for the fastest lap in Nascar, with a speed of 212.809. Bill set the record in qualifying, driving a Ford Thunderbird, at the Talladega Superspeedway in May 1987.
In 1987, Bill Elliott set a track record with a qualifying speed of 210.364.
Mark Martin on May 10, 1997 running the Winston 500 at the Talladega Superspeedway with an average speed of 188.354 mph.
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