Better get a restrictor plate on that thing

Sure, Super Late Models are faster than Late Models. Supermodifieds are faster than tour-type Modifieds. Super Streets are even faster than Street Stocks.

But it's all relative, isn't it? Just ask Russ Wicks.

Driving what was supposedly a stock car built to "NASCAR specifications," Wicks set a new world speed record in a Dodge Charger on Tuesday. Wicks, who holds world records of more than 200 miles per hour on both land and water, has set the stock car mark of 244.9 mph at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.

The record was confirmed by Guinness World Records. The new mark shatters Wicks’ previous stock car world speed record of 222 miles per hour.