Emelia Hartford Nissan Z
Professional race car driver and actress Emelia Hartford smashes the quarter-mile in 7.75 seconds at 181.85 mph in a Nissan Z she built in her garage.
This isn’t Emelia Hartford’s first rodeo; her twin-turbocharged Chevrolet Corvette C8 did 9.41 seconds over the quarter mile back in 2021, which she later beat with a 9.39 before FuelTech managed 9.36.
While FuelTech broke the record, Hartford and the high-performance vehicle control unit manufacturer continue to support each other and share the same vision of watching the industry grow.
Fuelled by the debut of the new generation Nissan Z in 2022, Hartford’s idea to break the record evolved and in the summer of 2023, Nissan provided a new Nissan Z and a…