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Filmed prior to his tragic death on 1 October 2020, multimillionaire daredevil Zef Eisenberg had a long-held obsession – to break the 200-mph land speed record in a car he planned to engineer himself.
To do so, Zef traveled the nation to meet fellow motoring mavericks and drive their incredible vehicles. Inspired by these extraordinary machines, Zef challenged his own team to take a different vehicle each week and make it as fast as humanly possible.
Whether it was putting a jet engine into a motorbike or adding hydraulic jacks to an unstoppable off-road racer, Zef got and under the bonnet of Britain’s best cars, bikes and boats.
The knowledge the Speed Freaks team gained was crucial because at the end of six part series, this real life Tony Stark and his team prepared Zef’s specially built 1200hp road-legal Porsche 911 Turbo S for a record attempt at Pendine Sands.
With over 40 land speed records to his name, he’d already done it on a bike. Did Zef Eisenberg become the first to break 200 miles an hour at the iconic Pendine Sands and take his place amongst the British legends of land speed?