"It is absolutely an awesome feeling. It was over so fast", that’s 33-year-old Hein Wagner for you, the world's fastest blind driver. Driving a red Maserati V8 Gransport, he notched up 269 kilometres per hour (167miles per hour) along an airstrip in northwest South Africa. He broke the previous record of 233 kilometres per hour (144 miles per hour).

He was raising funds for the, ‘South African National Council for the Blind’ through this event. Before making the attempt, he underwent five hours training in a sports car, which he drove with out any insurance. Unsurprisingly, nobody would have risked insuring a blind driver, said Wagner. He added that, the record was set on an airstrip because blind people were not allowed to drive on public roads.

Blind since birth, Wagner is a motivational speaker from Cape Town, South Africa. He describes himself as a blind man with a vision.

He has other sporting credits to his name. In 1998, he was part of the South African blind cricket team which won the first-ever blind World Cup. He has completed two marathons, climbed 10 of the highest mountains in South Africa's Western Cape region and has also finished the Cape to Rio Yacht Race in 1993.

Wagner aspires to break the blind world air speed record in a plane. "I enjoy flying! so I will investigate that perhaps in the next six months."