It travelled a total distance of 232.5 miles in that time, enough to comfortably surpass the previous world record of 89.55.
'But surely it would have had to stop for re-fuelling?', I hear you cry.
Your concerns are understandable, but they managed to get around this with the stupid, dangerous and genius idea of using a second car to top up the tank mid-drift.
Nice touch, that. Check out the clip.
Here's hoping the M5 was treated to a nice set of fresh tyres after that ordeal, eh?