Racer Alex Roy crossed the US in 31 hours 4 minutes

Alex Roy made his way from the East Coast (New York) to West (Los Angeles), a little more than a day. October 7, 2006, the year prior to departure from New York, it, along with his partner waited 4498 km roads, 31 000 traffic policemen, three failed attempts, and the previous record of 32 hours and 7 minutes, set back in 1983.

To set a new record, the guys thoroughly prepared. In his BMW M5 E39 they carried twenty packs of cigarettes Nat Sherman Classic Light, mint lozenges, glucose and guarana, Visine and riboflavin, Gatorade and Red Bull, portable urinals with bystrootverdevayuschim gel, police sunglasses Randolf, the reserve tank 75, 7 l binoculars Tasco 8 × 40 with a gyroscopic stabilizer Kenyon KS-2, an army binoculars Steiner 7 × 50 mounted on the bumper of a thermal camera L-3 Raytheon NightDriver a la Hummer H-1 and LCD displays in the cabin, mounted front and rear sensors for the radar detector Valentine One, hidden radiators mounted on the bumpers antiradars Blinder M40, several GPS-navigators Garmin StreetPilot 2650, programmed the police radio scanners Uniden, mounted on the ceiling Uniden CB radio with external antenna whip.

But to cross the country with an average speed of 144, 9 km / h all this was not enough. Roy was preparing for his record of 2 years: with the help of his friend from the Department of Transport of New Jersey, he spent several months proschityval best routes, the location of gas stations, highways grid, the weather conditions, the ability to dynamically change the route in case of a road accident or a police pursuit. His travel costs totaled at least 150 000 dollars, and the number of violations during the entire route in the hundreds. Roy crossed the 13 states spent 570 liters of gasoline, 6 times stopped for refueling. Total trip car was only 34 minutes.

via factroom.ru