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The Cannonball Run record has been broken seven times in five weeks

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Re: The Cannonball Run record has been broken seven times in five weeks

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Post by calimac »

denlekke wrote: post #23
mydongle wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why don't they just invalidate runs that happen during something like a pandemic?

there's no one to invalidate them ! even validating them is a game of trust as it's illegal and most of the only other people interested are competitors who are reluctant to be beaten. the vinwiki guy has made himself out to be an arbiter because he gets more views on his youtube channel and app subscribers from it

Dude is heavily involved in community and well equipped to take the role of arbiter of the record for this generation.

Re: The Cannonball Run record has been broken seven times in five weeks

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jdhn wrote: post #18
protomyth wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would bet that most traffic on I-90 in South Dakota is at or over 90mph given the speed limit is now 80mph. Heck, North Dakota, not exactly a bastion of enforcement, decided against going higher specifically because of South Dakota. Idaho, Wyoming and Utah have 80mph limits and Texas has road at 85mph. A lot of plain states are not hyper about speed limits. 120mph is going to get you in trouble, badly, but 90 might…

I drove on that 80 MPH stretch of I-80 between the Utah/Nevada border, and even the big rigs were going at least 5 over. I honestly think that as long as you're not going 10 over, the police are just there to make sure that if you crash somebody is there to help.

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Re: The Cannonball Run record has been broken seven times in five weeks

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Post by dharmab »

jdhn wrote: post #18
protomyth wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would bet that most traffic on I-90 in South Dakota is at or over 90mph given the speed limit is now 80mph. Heck, North Dakota, not exactly a bastion of enforcement, decided against going higher specifically because of South Dakota. Idaho, Wyoming and Utah have 80mph limits and Texas has road at 85mph. A lot of plain states are not hyper about speed limits. 120mph is going to get you in trouble, badly, but 90 might…

I drove on that 80 MPH stretch of I-80 between the Utah/Nevada border, and even the big rigs were going at least 5 over. I honestly think that as long as you're not going 10 over, the police are just there to make sure that if you crash somebody is there to help.

There are long stretches of road throughout Utah where 110+mph is easily feasible. Sightlines all the way to the horizon.

Re: The Cannonball Run record has been broken seven times in five weeks

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Post by X-Istence »

smokelegend wrote: post #4

The open road is open once more... Note, if you get caught at these high speeds on public roads, you will be arrested and vehicle impounded. Most of the time police officers will draw their weapons when making vehicle stops of this nature. Most state laws have a zero tolerance policy for vehicles exceeding 90mph on public roads. But if you got bail money, GODSPEED

Some municipalities and states also have rules on the book that police are not to chase if someone is driving over 100 Mph because it is more dangerous than just letting them go and catching them later.

Re: The Cannonball Run record has been broken seven times in five weeks

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Post by jdhn »

dharmab wrote: post #43
jdhn wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I drove on that 80 MPH stretch of I-80 between the Utah/Nevada border, and even the big rigs were going at least 5 over. I honestly think that as long as you're not going 10 over, the police are just there to make sure that if you crash somebody is there to help.

There are long stretches of road throughout Utah where 110+mph is easily feasible. Sightlines all the way to the horizon.

Oh absolutely. I'd say that this holds true for most states west of the Mississippi.

Re: The Cannonball Run record has been broken seven times in five weeks

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Post by Ididntdothis »

sandworm101 wrote: post #39
rdl wrote: post #33

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I think it's probably a function of how big the risks are to themselves vs. others (both relatively and absolutely). I don't think ocean yacht races are as dangerous to bystanders as pirate road races are to even an order of magnitude, probably several.

That speaks to the danger factor, but the OP wanted to know why they do take these risks. I'd say that those on the cannonball run have exactly the same motivation as Ellen MacArthur. She was knighted for setting an around-the-world yachting record, making her an official hero, but in terms of motivation she is no different than these people trying to break the across-the-us driving record. Different vehicles, differ…

I doubt it. They are getting a kick out of breaking rules. Otherwise they would do real racing.

Re: The Cannonball Run record has been broken seven times in five weeks

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Post by klenwell »

fragmede wrote: post #6

Semi-relatedly, the California Highway Patrol reported an 87% increase in speeding tickets for > 100pmh as compared to 2019. https://twitter.com/CHP_HQ/status/1253087393567014912

Isn't that a felony? Years ago when I was in college I talked to a post-doc or visiting professor from Germany who got am aerial speeding ticket for going really fast on some desolate part of the I5 on his way from San Diego to San Francisco.

He said it turned out to be much more serious than he expected (coming from the Land of Chocolate and the Autobahn) and it was a pain in the ass to sort out.

Re: The Cannonball Run record has been broken seven times in five weeks

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Post by hpoe »

protomyth wrote: post #7
smokelegend wrote: post #4

The open road is open once more... Note, if you get caught at these high speeds on public roads, you will be arrested and vehicle impounded. Most of the time police officers will draw their weapons when making vehicle stops of this nature. Most state laws have a zero tolerance policy for vehicles exceeding 90mph on public roads. But if you got bail money, GODSPEED

I would bet that most traffic on I-90 in South Dakota is at or over 90mph given the speed limit is now 80mph. Heck, North Dakota, not exactly a bastion of enforcement, decided against going higher specifically because of South Dakota. Idaho, Wyoming and Utah have 80mph limits and Texas has road at 85mph. A lot of plain states are not hyper about speed limits. 120mph is going to get you in trouble, badly, but 90 might…

I'll say man, there is just something almost spiritual being all there alone out in the Utah West desret can see a hundred miles in every direction, nothing but flat unbroken skyline, blowing down the highway at 110 mph and then realizing even at those blistering speeds you're hardly moving against that infinite flat backdrop.

I love it man.

Re: The Cannonball Run record has been broken seven times in five weeks

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Post by madengr »

blunte wrote: post #13

It still amazes me that the US, with all its red light cameras, doesn't adopt the European speed cameras that create a lot of tickets (at significant fines) for relatively minor speeding infractions. Top Gear did a test years ago to see just how fast you would need to go to defeat a speed camera, and it was well beyond what the Cannonballers would be running. You just can't fool a high speed camera easily. Of course,…

The US doesn’t have a lot of red light cameras. The ones that they do have are usually privately owned and administered. The owners puts them in for free and gets a cut of the fines. Now that’s American.
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