STREET/RACE Issue 1, Winter 2016 | Page 92

Photograph by Kevin Cox Royal Purple Raceway - Baytown, Texas LAMBO KILLER 92 STREETRACE “I distinctly remember letting out a ‘Hell, yeah!’ as I crossed the finish line,” says Ben Haynes, owner and driver of the T1 Racing-built Nissan GT-R that won the TX2K16 Roll Race Nationals in Houston, taking out Jason “Mullet” Stevens and his 1,750-wheel-horsepower, twin-turbocharged Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera from dominating shop Underground Racing. “It felt like a win for the whole Nissan GT-R community, to be honest. Those guys build some of the baddest cars on the planet, so you can’t help but be excited to beat one.” For the record, though, beating a Lamborghini was