Here in the states, we’re all about throaty, monster cubic inch V-8 engines in our race cars, but ‘down under’ in the nation of Australia, virtually anything goes, and whether it’s eight cylinders or four, the Aussie racing fans appreciate all forms of horsepower without prejudice. It’s for that reason why the country boasts so many four and six-cylinder-powered race cars and own a number of world records for such engine combinations. Well, one more you can add to that list is the all-time rotary elapsed time record, which was once and owned and is now again owned by the Pac Performance team and their wicked Mazda 6 doorslammer, powered by a turbocharged Mazda 20B rotary (three-rotor) powerplant, as they clocked an impressive 6.475 at 222.84 mph at the recent ANDRA Fuchs Winternationals at the Willowbank Raceway.

The PAC Performance Mazda, built stateside by Rick Jones Race Cars in 2012, springs to life and plants the big rear meats to the pavement using AFCO Racing shocks prepared by “The Shock Nerd”, Marc Menscer, of Menscer Motorsports.

The rotary record was briefly held by a Puerto Rican-based team from early March until the Fuchs Winternationals last month with their 6.48 at 217 mph recorded at the Palm Beach Interntational Raceway in south Florida. That team also utilized the Mazda Wankel 20B engine in their Mazda RX-8.

As you can witness in the video shown here, the PAC Performance machine made far from a picture-perfect pass with a big wiggle down track, meaning there’s undoubtedly more left in the sleek Mazda. Considered the hotly contested battle between the two continents, it’s fair to say the rotary record only stands to be broken at this point.