A British inventor has set a new world record for 'driving' a piece of furniture on a racetrack.

Perry Watkins, from Buckinghamshire, fitted an engine and wheels under a dining table named 'Fast Food' and drove it at a top speed of 206 km an hour and comfortably broke the previous record of 148 km per hour set by a 'sofa vehicle' in 2007.

Watkins, 47, broke the record at a 500-metre track in Northamptonshire's Santa Pod Raceway, the Daily Telegraph reported Tuesday.

He has put together a number of unusual cars with his own hands and Fast Food took about a year to build in his garage, Watkins said.

He was previously the record holder for the world's lowest car and still lays claim to having built the smallest car ever made, by attaching a 150cc engine to a toy van.