Duck X Productions’ No Mercy 7 lived up to its billing of being a top-shelf radial tire racing event full of great passes and epic carnage. The meticulously prepared surface at South Georgia Motorsports Park gave every racer the opportunity to turn the wick up on their machine and see what it could run. And Ziff Hudson was able to use this great prep and ideal atmospheric conditions at No Mercy to smash the 275 radial tire record with a savage 4.05-second pass.

Before Hudson even rolled into the gates at SGMP for No Mercy, he already had demonstrated just how quick his Mustang was by ripping off a three-second pass earlier this month, albeit on the larger 315 radial. At No Mercy, Hudson was double entered in the headlining class of Radial vs The World and in Pro 275 to get as much track time as possible.

After the first round of qualifying in Radial vs The World, Hudson was already knocking on the door of the record with his booming 4.11 pass. During the second round of qualifying on Friday, Hudson dropped the hammer on the old 275 radial record of 4.10 that was previously held by David Pearson’s ProCharged 1995 Mustang. The 527 cubic inch big-block Chevy topped with a Thomsen Motorsports intake and fed by a single 118 mm Precision turbo powered the Racecraft-built machine down the track to a 4.055 at over 186 mph — that pass was good enough to put him in the Radial vs The World field, and he even out-qualified some twin-turbo, 315-equipped cars.

The in-car footage from our friends at 1320 video shows just how pumped Hudson was after he saw that record light up the board at SGMP.  Now, the question is, can Hudson be the first in the three-second zone on a 275 radial? There’s no doubt it’s coming…it’s just a matter of when and who gets their first.