The Hajek Motorsports E-85/soy Ford Mustang makes its record run on the Bonneville Salt Flats. (Photo: Hajek Motorsports)
Hajek Motorsports set a new speed record for alternative-fueled cars when its 2010 E-85/soy Ford Mustang hit a top speed of 255.764 mph last week at the Bonneville Salt Flats.
The record run also confirms Hajek’s boast of “world’s fastest production Mustang.”
The Mustang, converted to run on an 85 percent mix of ethanol and gasoline, was driven by Bonneville veteran Danny Thompson to a C/CF ALT world record verified by the Southern California Timing Association.
The Salt Flats speed record capped a weeklong series of successes for Hajek Motorsports, which also set four NHRA top-speed and elapsed-time records in the A/SA class in Cobra Jet cars driven by Don Nicholson and Hubert Platt.
This is the second time that the E-85/soy Mustang competed in Speed Week at Bonneville, with last year’s second, verifying run on a 252 mph top speed stymied by mechanical problems.
As well as being fueled by ethanol, the Mustang also has major body panels and interior components made from soy beans, said team owner and NHRA racer Brent Hajek, which helped bring Ford on board as a sponsor.
“We used as many bio products as we possibly could on this,” said Hajek, an Ames, OK., resident. “We started playing around with this biofuel stuff and got Ford interested in it.”
So why the big interest by a drag racer in alternative fuel and components?
“Well, I’m a corn and soybean farmer,” Hajek said.
