Cannonball Run Record
3 Guys beat the record driving from Manhattan to Los Angeles in just 27 hours and 25 minutes, using a souped up AMG Sedan.
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Three men have broken a record for competing a Cannonball Run which involves driving cross-country from New York to Los Angeles in the shortest amount of time possible.
Arne Toman, Doug Tabbutt, and Berkeley Chadwick pulled off the impressive feat after driving from Manhattan and pulled into the Portofino Hotel in Redondo Beach in less than 27 and a half hours, Road and Track reported.
The Cannonball run, as it is known, is controversial as it involves breaking traffic laws. However the race has been attempted over 20 times and none have done it in as fast a time until now.
Ed Bolian and Dave Black were the last group that broke the Cannonball record when they made the drive in 28 hours and 50 minutes in 2013, Road and Track reported.
And the latest trio made the cross-country drive in a custom-built 2015 Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG Sedan, which came after hundreds of hours of preparation.
Toman told the outlet: 'I didn't want to break the record by minutes. I didn't want anyone else trying and I didn't want to do it again.
The trio drove at an average speed of 103 mph and had two dash-mount Garmin GPS units.
One was being monitored by by a third party and they also had a CB radio to track their speed and their time which turned out to be record-breaking.
They set off from the Red Ball garage on the east side of Manhattan at 12.57 am on November 10.They eventually reached the Portofino Hotel in Redondo Beach in the South Bay area of Los Angeles in a time of 27 hours and 25 minutes.
The boys took the Northern Route - the I-80 through Nebraska, I-76 down to Denver, I-70 to the middle of Utah and I-15 until they reached Los Angeles for a total of 2825 miles.
The time took into account stops for fuel, which they managed to keep to at a 22 minute total.
That is a heck of a speed record.
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Three men have broken a record for competing a Cannonball Run which involves driving cross-country from New York to Los Angeles in the shortest amount of time possible.
Arne Toman, Doug Tabbutt, and Berkeley Chadwick pulled off the impressive feat after driving from Manhattan and pulled into the Portofino Hotel in Redondo Beach in less than 27 and a half hours, Road and Track reported.
The Cannonball run, as it is known, is controversial as it involves breaking traffic laws. However the race has been attempted over 20 times and none have done it in as fast a time until now.
Ed Bolian and Dave Black were the last group that broke the Cannonball record when they made the drive in 28 hours and 50 minutes in 2013, Road and Track reported.
And the latest trio made the cross-country drive in a custom-built 2015 Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG Sedan, which came after hundreds of hours of preparation.
Toman told the outlet: 'I didn't want to break the record by minutes. I didn't want anyone else trying and I didn't want to do it again.
The trio drove at an average speed of 103 mph and had two dash-mount Garmin GPS units.
One was being monitored by by a third party and they also had a CB radio to track their speed and their time which turned out to be record-breaking.
They set off from the Red Ball garage on the east side of Manhattan at 12.57 am on November 10.They eventually reached the Portofino Hotel in Redondo Beach in the South Bay area of Los Angeles in a time of 27 hours and 25 minutes.
The boys took the Northern Route - the I-80 through Nebraska, I-76 down to Denver, I-70 to the middle of Utah and I-15 until they reached Los Angeles for a total of 2825 miles.
The time took into account stops for fuel, which they managed to keep to at a 22 minute total.
That is a heck of a speed record.
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Average speed of 103. That is astonishing. It says they had Garmin GPS, I wonder if they had radar detectors.
A lot of places they catch you going 103, they put you in jail.0 -
They had people spotting for cops along the route. They had an AP on a iphone that tells you where cops are plus they had a guy in the back seat with binos and a thermal camera looking for cops on the side of the road.
OH and they averaged 103 mph they were going a lot faster than that at some point.0 -
Nice! 0 -
https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a30085091/these-guys-just-drove-an-e63-amg-across-america-in-a-record-27-hours-25-minutes/
Here is the article from Road and Track0 -
GreatGuns wrote:My cousin Harry did it back in the late 70's with one of his store managers in a Pantera. They didn't set any record, but they did complete and finished in the first 5 of something like 150 entries. They used military grade night vision goggles and ran without lights on the long straightaways. Fricken crazy! :P
RIP Harry, you taught me alot about engines, racing and people.
Jim
Military grade NV in the late 70's was not too good its called 1st Gen ANPVS-5 and they sucked.
He must have carried his balls in a 5 gallon bucket.0 -
The ghost of Burt Reynolds must have been riding along with those boys!! 8-) 0 -
congrats to the team , amazing they got away with it .. they posted a photo with the average speed and a top speed of 193 mph ( I think was the number ) however they had a boat load of electronic goodies in and on the car and spotters along with people running ahead . real nice set up and support team they said in one year they would post a lot more details ( time limit on arrest ? )
I remember the old movie cannon ball run . I will say it would be a fun time to be part of it
OMG we need to out law hi-capacity any car thet can go faster than the speed limit the cars are obvious a danger to the public and challenge for other's to try and beat there record0 -
I wonder how many speeding tickets they will get via mail from those camera\AI monitors that are out there? :shock: 0 -
That is fascinating thanks for posting. They had 18 spotters along the way, one a motorcycle guy. So motorcycle guy is waiting along the interstate, he finds out they are 20 miles away, and he starts out, running ahead of the race car and spotting for cops.
At that rate, he could stay out in front of them for a while.
That is an incredible story. I didn't know there was a real Cannonball Run.
One thing they didn't mention but, as an experienced over the road driver, I know they had to make this run on the weekend and at night, that is when traffic is lightest. So they probably started on a Saturday night about midnight, and finished Sunday at 3 am.
Rush hour starts early in LA.0 -
Wonder how the two priests in the Ferrari did? 0 -
Seen that on VINWiki. If you go through the channel you can watch Ed's story (he broke the old time). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6s9o6uIWZwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWqpYHHNgXA0
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