At the 2010 Redline Time Attack season opener at Buttonwillow Raceway Park, the Sierra Sierra Cosworth Mitsubishi Evolution VIII, driven by David Empringham snatched the long-standing record from the JDM HKS CT230R Evo with a 1:43.43. This bested the previous record by a mere 9 one-hundredths of a second.
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