India’s drag-racing benchmark has moved again. At the Vroom Drag Meet, held at the Taneja Aerospace facility in Hosur near Bangalore, an Audi R8 covered the quarter-mile in 8.693 seconds. That slices the previous 8.849-second mark by 0.156 second—an emphatic gain at an already eight-second level.

The star isn’t a showroom-spec supercar but a deeply overhauled R8 V10+. Prepared by Venom Performance and Modcrew, it relies on a Sheepey Race twin-turbo kit as the core of its pace. The output is reported to exceed 1,600 horsepower, putting this R8 firmly in drag-special territory rather than the realm of a merely fast road-going Audi.

The trajectory of the record tells its own story. In December 2024, this very R8 was already being described as India’s fastest car after a 9.535-second run at The Valley Run. Its owner then became the first to decisively dip below nine seconds, and has now consolidated that advantage with an 8.693. For the local scene, the moment is symbolic: for years the benchmark was tied to a Nissan Skyline GT-R drag build that set its time back in 2008, and that target has now shifted markedly.

Alongside the new milestone, the car secured the FMSCI Indian National Drag Racing title in the unrestricted class, and its Modcrew team topped the standings in its category.