31 hours 4 min - new coast to coast cannonball record

Car Videos of Alex Roy and co-driver Dave Maher accomplishing a record-breaking 31 hours, 4 minutes run from New York to Los Angeles …. last year - on October 9th 2006. Hence beaten Richard Rawlings and Dennis Collins in a Ferrari 550 of who claim to have done it in 32:07 on May 14 2007 … (whithout knowing Roy done it in 06). Confused? - well, it seems Alex brilliantly decided to wait a year before releasing his book - the Driver - and videos documenting his record breaking trip. Why? ohh we might be arrested couple times over … :).
Alex’s inspiration came from the greatest car video - rendezvous.
we have few video previews for ya today!

Bottom line - new Transcontinental Record is 31:04 hours and it was set in a 2000 BMW M5 armed to the teeth with CB radios, GPS units, radar jamers & detectors, night vision cameras, etc!



close call in Oklahoma:

So … to re-cap this confusing history of East coast to West coast cannonball records:
32:51 - David Heinz and David Yarborough do the original, 1979 Cannonball Run from New York City to Los Angeles
32:07 - David Diem and Doug Turner clocked in a Ferrari 308 during the 1983 US Express run
31:59 - Richard Rawlings and Dennis Collins in a black Ferrari 550 - 2007

[reads: wired (must read!), jalopnik, The Maps, The History]

more car videos - Rain Driving | Will Wright discusses his 1980 US Express Victory | 32 hours, 7 Minutes - Trailer [movie website]

related: new NY to LA by car record - entire interview | 31 h 59 m record “break” of 2007