THE TURBO RECORD BREAKER

Zef Eisenberg is no ordinary racer. The man behind Maximuscle, the sports drink, likes the extremes of motorsport: the Guernsey-based enthusiast holds more than 44 UK, world or Guinness speed records including, though unofficially, Britain’s fastest motorcycle crash, a 230mph accident which left him in a wheelchair. However, extreme sport demands extreme determination, and evidently Eisenberg has it in abundance. Within a year he had taught himself to walk again and was back behind the wheel. In May 2018 he became the first man to exceed 200mph on Carmarthenshire’s Pendine Sands, the scene of a hundred years of speed record attempts. A year later he returned at the wheel of his 991 Turbo and spectacularly rewrote the Pendine record book, achieving the fastest sand speed record by a wheel-powered vehicle at 210.3 mph, the fastest flying quarter mile at 196.9mph (mean), the fastest flying quarter mile at 206.5mph (one way) and the fastest flying mile (two way) at 186.9mph – the same measurement as Sir Malcolm Campbell, no less.

Campbell’s speed record of 174.8mph, set in