Cannonball driver: across US in 31 hours !!

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Extreme sports fan Alex Roy said Friday he had smashed the record for the fastest "Cannonball run" across the United States, defying police and speed traps. 



Alex Roy, 35, who waited a year to boast about his exploits and remains vague about the exact dates in a bid to avoid any prosecution, said he had blistered across 13 states in 31 hours and 4 minutes, breaking the old record by more than an hour.

Car enthusiast and rally driver Roy travelled the 4,496 kilometers (2,794 miles) from New York on the East Coast to Santa Monica, California, on the West Coast at an average 145 kilometers (95 miles) an hour.

At times though he reached top speeds of 257 kilometers (160 miles) an hour, breaking the previous record set in 1983 of 32 hours and 17 minutes.

The American driver of German origin set the record at the wheel of his blue BMW stamped with [B]"Team Polizei" [/B]and traveled with a cameraman to document the event.

He also equipped his car with several GPS units, police scanners and radar detectors in a bid to avoid any speed traps.

"The GPS really is not that useful because there is only four tolls and maybe four turns between New York and LA. This is purely to calculate our speed and time," he told a television reporter.

He added that normally he's a very careful driver who has only been given one speeding ticket in the past five years.

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unless there is a video to prove it, it be a lie. 13 hours on an average of 95? on an average of 95, i get to vegas in 5 hours..

top speed isnt all that fast either...ive gone faster :smiley:

The full story is a very interesting read.

[url]http://www.wired.com/cars/coolwheels/magazine/15-11/ff_cannonballrun?currentPage=all[/url]

Gave too much info. 
 
 I JUST got my license reinstated not long ago.... after a freakin year for doing that MAXIM article/photoshoot. My 240 was sooooo hot, the Lexus even worse after 'they' figured out it was me.  
 
Thats why I always look at people posting pics/vids of themselves Drifting/Streetracing like idiots.  
 
Street Drifiting is wrong BTW :thelaw:

umm.. i dont know of this article you speak of  :dance:

are they going to have a canonball dvd ? ima buy that mess..

[quote=guymx83;107273]umm.. i dont know of this article you speak of  :dance:

are they going to have a canonball dvd ? ima buy that mess..[/quote]

point of this, is he claims to have done it. with cameras and everything. the problem is, you probably can't really get across the country in 13 hours, unless you are going ALOT faster.... 13 hours, at a constant velocity of 100mph would put you at 1300 miles. 95, would put you at 950 miles. Not ~2300 miles. That, would have to be an average of 176 miles an hour....that's a lot faster than stated, and not likely to have been done...idk. Throw out the video, and it'll be proven whether or not he did it.


edit: that's 31 hours not 13 lol.

31 hours at 100 mph would be 3100 miles. 

95 mph would be 2945.

that's totallly doable. never mind.

he could go 2700 miles in 31 hours on an average of 87mph. that's not much faster than normal people driving on the highway.

but driving 31 hrs non stop / no sleep ? thats just freaking nuts