The 26 hour, 38 minute time—which beats the record set in November by more than 45 minutes—appears to be legitimate, according to Ed Bolian, a Cannonball insider and driver who set his own 28 hour, 50 minute record in 2013. Alex Roy, who set the first modern NYC-to-LA record in 2006, also said the new claim is credible based on his analysis of multiple sources.
"What Brock Yates wanted to prove back in the Seventies was that you could drive quickly across the country in normal traffic without disrupting anyone or being unsafe, and that isn't what this was," Wilson said. "Even if you list it as a record run, it'll always be the run during the time of quarantine. There will always be an asterisk next to it."
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A record run is a record run. They didn't put an asterisk next to the records noting 'but that was when the roads were paved' or 'that was when the interstate highway system was completed'. Indy, Nascar or F1 drivers don't have asterisks next to their wins noting that they won because a decimated field made it possible.
ReplyDeleteAs one of the R&T people said (paraphrasing here) it's kinda sad because this record will never be broken in normal times, so the Cannonball Run is effectively over.
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