SPEED fanatics are flushed with success after setting a new record for the fastest ever toilet at a land speed gathering in North Yorkshire.

Racing along at 70.5 mph the toilet is officially the fastest in the world, setting the record time at the Straightliner Autumn Land Speed Weekend held at Elvington airfield near York.

The gathering attracted not only souped-up toilet enthusiasts. Speed records were also set for a jet power shopping trolley (90.8070mph) and in the fastest shed category (100.67mph), racing alongside traditional motorbikes and trikes.

Straightliner attracts some of the most powerful bikes and custom built vehicles from around Europe attempting to break UK and World land speed records.

The toilet was built by four 18-year-old engineering students from Rutland.

Driver Thomas Ellis said they based the speeding lavatory around a Yamaha xs250 engine discovered in his parents farmyard, building the chassis around it and buying the toilet.

He said:”The trouble now is we might be hooked on speed record breaking.”