He was vacationing with his girlfriend's family, and t
hey challenged him to break the record:
After struggling to beat the record for hours, he took fuel out of the car, treated the engine with a leaf blower to try and cool it down, and enlisted his girlfriend's help to take care of the tyres
...
"Someone was slipstreaming me on the straights and then moving out of the way at the last minute so I could do the lap. I went with normal clothes, but I made sure to have shorts and a thin t-shirt on to keep the weight down. And even on the straights, I was head down.
