LEADFOOT
Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2013 1:39 am
The team covered 2,813.7 miles at an average speed of 98 miles per hour.
Jesus, that's fast.
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Re: LEADFOOT
Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2013 10:22 am
Re: LEADFOOT
Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2013 3:45 pm
Without getting a ticket, thats impressive around here
Re: LEADFOOT
Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2013 4:02 pm
My fastest "long trip" was about 20 years ago.
I drove from Minneapolis to Winnipeg - a trip of approximately 460 miles...including a 20 minute stop at the Canadian border - in 4 hours 15 minutes. The average drive time is about 8 - 9 hours. I stopped for gas only once and my average speed was just over 120 mph. We had been traveling so long at such a high speed when my friend drove for a while at "only" 90 mph I felt I could get out and run faster.
We never saw a single patrol car the entire trip. Some days you never see the highway patrol and some days you see one every minute. I got lucky on my trip, I'm guessing these guys got lucky, too.
Maybe one day when I'm retired and bored I'll race the entire length of the Trans-Canada Highway.
I drove from Minneapolis to Winnipeg - a trip of approximately 460 miles...including a 20 minute stop at the Canadian border - in 4 hours 15 minutes. The average drive time is about 8 - 9 hours. I stopped for gas only once and my average speed was just over 120 mph. We had been traveling so long at such a high speed when my friend drove for a while at "only" 90 mph I felt I could get out and run faster.
We never saw a single patrol car the entire trip. Some days you never see the highway patrol and some days you see one every minute. I got lucky on my trip, I'm guessing these guys got lucky, too.
Maybe one day when I'm retired and bored I'll race the entire length of the Trans-Canada Highway.
Re: LEADFOOT
Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2013 4:22 pm
Cool story bro.
Re: LEADFOOT
Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2013 4:28 pm
You should do Highway 1 fagg0t.
Re: LEADFOOT
Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2013 5:27 pm
If you read enough of the article you'd know they used scout cars all along the trip to warn them of any patrols. Seems like cheating to me.GONNAFISTYA wrote:My fastest "long trip" was about 20 years ago.
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We never saw a single patrol car the entire trip. Some days you never see the highway patrol and some days you see one every minute. I got lucky on my trip, I'm guessing these guys got lucky, too.
Re: LEADFOOT
Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2013 5:48 pm
If there were rules against using scout vehicles, it would be cheating. 
Re: LEADFOOT
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 4:52 am
They forgot a few people that broke the 1979 XJS run.
And the record breaking team now owns that XJS and are planning on restoring it and putting it beside their record breaking Ferrari.
EDIT:
There is also a little bitterness towards that posting:
And the record breaking team now owns that XJS and are planning on restoring it and putting it beside their record breaking Ferrari.
EDIT:
There is also a little bitterness towards that posting:
So did he REALLY beat the record?I really think it’s a damn shame that a media outlet as reputable as the Jalopnik would recognize Alex Roy’s “transcontinental” record in the same sentence as a Cannonball Run record breaker. Alex didn’t make it to the Cannonball Run finish line. His attempt ended at Santa Monica Pier. So why compare Ed’s Cannonball Run record-breaking time to Roy’s unofficial “transcontinental” race time? I’m not trying to bash Roy, here, but why not compare apples to apples? Dennis and I finished the Cannonball Run in a record-breaking 31 hours and 59 minutes, and now, according to that article, it looks like Ed Bolian did the unthinkable (but not impossible) by breaking our record with a finishing time of 28 hours and 50 minutes. He can now join the elite few (6 teams to be exact) who have set a Cannonball Run record, and THAT’s bad ass. That’s what that article should have been about.
Re: LEADFOOT
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 7:22 am
Sounds like splitting hairs tbh, innit ?
If the record is getting from one side of America to another then route shouldn't be an issue ?
If the record is getting from one side of America to another then route shouldn't be an issue ?
Re: LEADFOOT
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 2:01 pm
route isnt an issue.
Start to finishline is the issue, he "finished" a bit short.
Start to finishline is the issue, he "finished" a bit short.
Re: LEADFOOT
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 2:22 pm
Well when I seen that he made it to the pier I kinda assumed he made it to the otherside, any further and he's in the drink 
Re: LEADFOOT
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 2:46 pm
I have a friendly that lives roughly 200 miles away and we make the road trip once or twice a year. My best time was back before I got my last speeding ticket in the 350Z. I made it in just under 2 hours despite much of the route being at the speed limit in residential areas. At one point I think I maxed the car out around 160. Outside of the small back-woods towns the road was a blast to open up on. Got a ticket coming back home doing 90 in a 65 and that was roughly the end of me driving so stupidly.GONNAFISTYA wrote:My fastest "long trip" was about 20 years ago.
I drove from Minneapolis to Winnipeg - a trip of approximately 460 miles...including a 20 minute stop at the Canadian border - in 4 hours 15 minutes. The average drive time is about 8 - 9 hours. I stopped for gas only once and my average speed was just over 120 mph. We had been traveling so long at such a high speed when my friend drove for a while at "only" 90 mph I felt I could get out and run faster.
We never saw a single patrol car the entire trip. Some days you never see the highway patrol and some days you see one every minute. I got lucky on my trip, I'm guessing these guys got lucky, too.
Maybe one day when I'm retired and bored I'll race the entire length of the Trans-Canada Highway.
Re: LEADFOOT
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 2:50 pm
The really funny thing about this whole topic is that these sort of things are simply NOT talked about in Germany...the land of the Autobahn. Only in the "land of the free" would this accomplishment impress people. 
When I lived there I routinely drove 200 km/h (120 mph) when I was making bi-weekly runs to Berlin on the weekends...and people were still passing us like we were standing still. One of my friends lives in Munich but works in Berlin, so he makes the drive up every Monday and the drive back every Friday at about 250 km/h.
If Germany were the width of the US and people drove it normally as they would every other day, I doubt this sort of "rebellious" behaviour of a high-speed run would even be mentioned as something to talk about over lunch, let alone a news article.
Just sayin...
When I lived there I routinely drove 200 km/h (120 mph) when I was making bi-weekly runs to Berlin on the weekends...and people were still passing us like we were standing still. One of my friends lives in Munich but works in Berlin, so he makes the drive up every Monday and the drive back every Friday at about 250 km/h.
If Germany were the width of the US and people drove it normally as they would every other day, I doubt this sort of "rebellious" behaviour of a high-speed run would even be mentioned as something to talk about over lunch, let alone a news article.
Just sayin...
Re: LEADFOOT
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 3:05 pm
Tis a fair point but it's mostly about breaking standing records and this seems to be a good un cos the length at which the previous records stood. Probably due to the lack of attempts because of the prep work needed to avoid the feds.
If Germany was the size of the US I reckon there'd be attempts made at that too, with a higher avg speed, but the records would probaly still stand for a long time because the committed people who break the record will employ different tactics to give themselves the edge over the competitors. Like recruiting scout cars for the parts of the autobahn that aren't de-restricted, making it a good record to aim for.
I mean I know they're already competing for fastest time clocked on the auto-bahn n shit so it only makes sense.
If Germany was the size of the US I reckon there'd be attempts made at that too, with a higher avg speed, but the records would probaly still stand for a long time because the committed people who break the record will employ different tactics to give themselves the edge over the competitors. Like recruiting scout cars for the parts of the autobahn that aren't de-restricted, making it a good record to aim for.
I mean I know they're already competing for fastest time clocked on the auto-bahn n shit so it only makes sense.
Re: LEADFOOT
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 3:22 pm
yea you guys from the States and Euro should have a go at the trans Canada highway!GONNAFISTYA wrote:You should do Highway 1 fagg0t.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Canada_Highway
lots of beautiful things to see and lots of interesting things to do!
sometimes it goes down to single undivided lane maybe so stick to the daytime and regular speed for those sections.
in the deluxe areas like from Calgary to Canmore its nice for speed but prolly risky for tickets
Re: LEADFOOT
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 3:24 pm
The point is that the "right side of the speedometer" has a mythical place in North American culture - much like anal sex - due to decades of childish laws.
Re: LEADFOOT
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 3:26 pm
And yet they still can't make an episode of Top Gear
Re: LEADFOOT
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 3:34 pm
2007 to 2013 aint that long.losCHUNK wrote:Tis a fair point but it's mostly about breaking standing records and this seems to be a good un cos the length at which the previous records stood.
Re: LEADFOOT
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 3:37 pm
Prior to that
Seen that attempts at this have been made since the end of WWII n all with around 5+ attempts a year. Which is around the same time that attempts for the world speed record were starting to get hairy.. In the final US Express, Doug Turner and David Diem drove a Ferrari 308 across the country in 32 hours and 7 minutes. That record, set in 1983, went unbroken for more than 20 years – until Alex Roy's crossing in 2006.