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Jay Leno made history when he broke the Bugatti Chiron Sport's car quarter-mile speed record with a Tesla Model S Plaid, which has quickest acceleration of any car ever built.
On the latest episode of Jay Leno's Garage, teased by MSNBC on Wednesday, the car-obsessed comedian hopped into the $129,000 Tesla at California's Famoso Raceway and set the new speed record at 9.247 seconds for a quarter-mile.
That beat out the Bugatti's previous record of 9.4 seconds, set during a Car and Driver test of the $3m Italian hypercar late last year.
'That was awesome,' Leno said, celebrating the fact that he won the title of fastest production car driver. The Model S Plaid its Tesla's top-of-the-range S
Jay Leno broke the Bugatti Chiron Sport's quarter-mile speed record aboard the Tesla Model S Plaid in the newest episode of Jay Leno's Garage
The celebrity hopped into the car and zoomed down the Famoso Raceway, in California
The run took just over nine seconds as Leno waited to hear if he beat the record
