There's a new Cannonball Run record: 2,825 miles in 27 hours and 25 minutes
 

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Fun Read....

Wow, bought my GT3 from one of the guys....

Watched a VINWiki video about it today. Friends of Ed though he does seem a bit bitter about losing the record.

Funniest part is how they specifically added silver tape to try and make the car look more like an older Honda Accord and it worked.

Good skills not getting locked up, but even better skills keeping the car running at that speed for so long (not breaking down) and not having an accident - well done Guys!

Anyone remember "California Magazine"? There was an article in the early 1980s about Banzai Runners. I think it had a Countach, 911S, Cadillac, and a Lola featured in it. I have to dig it up one day.

I would think that car would only be living up to its capabilities on such a trip. Of course and as you pointed out, going to jail, road hazards and causing or contributing to a crash are different parts of the equation.

It ended well but had it not, the discussion would be quite different.

I think this is awesome..

Oddly, I was reading some threads on Jalopnik and I was shocked how many people seemed outraged. That they should be arrested and why would anyone be so reckless. my gosh. What a bunch of Nannies.

I love that people still have the balls/money/desire to do things like this. And it makes, to me, the Gurney/Yates run seem more impressive given the passage of time.

Can you image the law suit if they had been in a accident and killed someone? I hope they had an attorney give them advice before the run and move all their accounts offshore.

This is a different day than when Brock Y. and Dan G. did it.

Silliness, waste of time and money.

This video is a bit long but informative on their run:

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I still wonder how they don't get arrested after the fact? I guess the authorities can't pinpoint the date and time of the offense but still.

Notice their GPS final display: max speed 193 mph!

I feel a little conflicted about it. It's a fascinating accomplishment, and incredible that the planning paid off and they were able to do it without injuring other people. I can't imagine how awful it would be for all parties involved and the automotive hobby if there had been an accident. I'm definitely *not* outraged about it... It's somewhere on my moral spectrum. I think outraged people online are just trying to make themselves feel morally superior any time they can. Can't imagine this run actually negatively impacted anyone except Ed, who lost his record. At some point (possibly right now) the record is going to require such obscene speeds that it won't even be reasonable to attempt.

That so much parallels my thinking - very well stated.

The R&T article was very well written and informative - which I think influenced my thinking.

Top speed of 193, average of 103. Just 22 minutes spent stopped.
These are already obscene speeds, and there is no doubt in my mind that some motorhead technogeeks are already planning creative ways to beat this.
One thing that caught my eye was the 18 people along the route recruited to check the road for the po-po, and another curious factoid was the lack of bears-in-the-air. (do people still say that?)

If you notice, it was overcast on their run, not exactly airplane spotting weather.

Pigs with wings is another version.

To be fair, the really high speed stuff had to be done on empty roads. I've done some fast driving cross-country and 100-120 is no problem through Utah on the 70 where the speed limit is 80 and people are doing that or better but you have to slow down whenever you approach another car from the rear, even if they are in the neighboring lane, for safety's sake. It's all about speed deltas and closing speed, etc...

They left at midnight from NYC so most of the drive was at night, (two nights), a lot of the USA is pretty empty during those hours.

^^^ This.

Leaving NY at midnight means they were in the "fly over" states by morning. Get outside of the congested east and west coast and well, where is the congestion? I don't know the route they took so I would guess Indy? St Louis? Denver?

is it obscene? maybe.
dangerous? at times.

But isn't that why people still do things others think are "crazy" ? Just cause you can?

I haven't read the whole story, but I assume this one was much more modest than those "clown" shows where 15-20 guys in their Ferraris, McLarens, Lambos all tarted up with stickers try to go coast to coast bringing way too much attention on themselves.

Oh yeah, they did it as stealthy as possible...smart.

100+ mph in a modern day performance sedan, let alone an AMG, on good roads is easy peasy but the fact that it's easy doesn't mean it should be done. In fact, the opposite is the case.

That's the real trick - avoiding police and traffic.

Not the driving.

If it were easy anyone would be doing it.

I have multiple times gone from Charlotte NC to Fontana California via I-40.

I've done it with just one co-driver twice both ways.

There is a lot of driver judgement involved.
There is also driver endurance.
IF you haven't made a cross country drive like this, you may imagine the interstates to just be straight a ways for speed. That may be true of sections, but the eastern and western portions have corner speeds that can be quite challenging.

Do they still run from the Red Ball Garage to the Portofina Inn?

Handling the logistics is the main challenge. The stops were probably scheduled and timed, no extra bathroom breaks allowed. Gas stops minimized with the updated tank.

Hope they were not weaving in and out of traffic at 100, in LA for example, not smart.
Across Nevada road is deserted mostly so easy top speed on the long straight drive to make up the time lost, if you can avoid going to jail.

I give them the endurance, driving straight for 24+ hours straight is suicidal if that is really the case, due to sleep deprivation.

Interstate speeds are above 80 routinely, even 90 easily if one is keen to do so. Slow down for the corners to 60-70 of course but make up the time with 130+ blasts in the straightways, which is why the 700hp is there.

I crossed Nevada at a high rate of speed one time. It felt really sluggish and dreamlike, boring even, when I slowed down to 120 mph.

But later I realized that empty roads are never really empty - an animal could run across the road even in the desert.

I'm surprised they didn't do refueling on the fly

An amazing feat, it is impressive. Someone will try to beat the record, of course.

At some point there will be an accident; at those speeds it will be ugly. The response from law enforcement/court system afterwards may be heavy and unforgiving. Following that I imagine a warning will be issued for anyone contemplating the run in the future.

That is how the next contender will beat them.

IIRC the guys they just dethroned fueled on the fly.


I thought I was a badass driving my 1982 911 from my vacation home in NC to my house in Florida in 9 hours, covering 730 miles with only 1 fuel stop averaging 80MPH.

Those cats are insane, I thought I was insane, I am humbled.

If Magnus Walker did this, he would get **** on
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NBC Sports ran a film this past October called "Apex: The Secret Race Across America". It documents the 2006 coast-to-coast record run of 31:04 made by Alex Roy and Dave Maher in a modified BMW M5. Very interesting indeed. Not sure if this'll be rerun on TV anytime soon, but it's available for download from iTunes.

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Proud E63 owner here, though they used one of the newer TT models. I can think of no better vehicle for this task.

I once did a 120 mile door to door trip on a Sunday afternoon in exactly 60 minutes.

I no longer approve of such behavior, so I must admit my transgression and look down upon these guys for what they did.

I guess we get wiser with age...

Which car?

Testarossa...

Sweet.

Where you wearing linen pants and a pink sport coat Java?

Cue the Miami Vice music

the on ramp at Bryant St downtown SF to the bay bridge to the off ramp for I-5 in Sacramento, 55 min

Nope. Pair of Levi’s, some random shirt and some topsiders. Probably had socks, but you never know.

I will not say I am jealous, because hopefully that is obvious.

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I thought I saw the that DB Richard Rawlings, along with Dennis Collins had previously held the record in their 550 Maranello Ferrari. The car has been on the show on earlier "Fast and Loud" episodes.