The record for world’s tightest parallel parking job has been broken yet again. This time it’s stunt driver and former record holder Han Yue, driving a Mini Cooper S.
Yue, who hails from China, set the record in 2012, when he managed to leave just 15 cm (5.91 inches) total on either end of his car. In July 2013, Britain’s Alastair Moffatt bested that distance with gaps totaling just 8.6 cm (3.4 inches), which, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, many experts thought was unbeatable.
On November 14, Yue managed to reclaim the title by sliding his car into a space with just 8.0 cm (3.15 inches) clearance, clipping 0.6 cm (0.24 inches) off Moffatt’s distance. For comparison, a standard business card’s width is 3.5 inches.
In fairness, this really isn’t parallel parking, even though the Guinness Book of World Records defines it as such. Yue is driving towards the space nose first, then sliding the tail around to slip into the opening.
The stunt took place at the China Drift Championship held in Chongqing Olympic Park, and answers the age old question posed by Seinfeld in 1992. Apparently, you can put it in head first.
Not to be outdone, Yue’s fellow countryman on the same day set a very specific record for “most drifts around a car driving on two wheels in one minute.” Watch the video of the record setting stunts below.
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