On December 3rd, I wrote about the Cannonball Express record of driving from New York City to Los Angeles being shattered with the drive being done in 27 hours and 25 minutes. It seems that during the lockdown, people have been busy - it is now down to 26 hours and 38 minutes with other Cannonball variants being broken as well (round trip, etc...) From Australia's Which Car:
America’s most illegal record has been obliterated
All the pearl-clutching about the morality of performing a Cannonball Run during a global pandemic seems to have been for nothing, with Ed Bolian reporting America’s most illegal record has been beaten seven times in the span of just five weeks.
According to Bolian, who has been in contact with the new record holders, the time to beat is now less than 26 hours. A sub 28-hour Cannonball Run was once unthinkable.
While he has not disclosed the exact time, that frame of reference means the drivers would have had to achieve an average speed of at least 173km/h for the 4507km journey.
A bit more:
According to Bolian, its not just the outright record that has been broken, with the solo-driver, diesel-powered, and coast-to-coast-to-coast Cannonball records all tumbling – the last of which having almost 20 hours shaved off the previous record time.
This new flurry of record attempts follows a team of drivers who took advantage of empty roads that had been created by the coronavirus lockdown to set a cross-country time of 26 hours and 38 minutes.
Heh - I'll be posting more as I find out about it. Sounds like a lot of fun and a great way to make use of the empty roads.
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