Some Podcast Episodes Deserve Video. I hope you enjoy the conversation, as well as the footage from the Audi S8's 26 hours 29 Minute's sprint across the United States
@@Iegend17 Basically, Ted was a Mission Control person for last years cannonball run, where a team of 3 drive from the North East of USA to the West as quickly as possible in one go.
As a German watching this, its really frustrating to see what you have to deal with on highways, everyone just sitting in left lanes for no reason at all
@@drogenfeld Nicht wirklich, zumindest nicht wo ich meistens auf Autobahnen unterwegs bin, natürlich gibt es auch ab und zu nen Mittelschleicher oder jemanden der sehr langsam und lange links überholt aber im Gegensatz zum Video ist es 20x besser hier
@@drogenfeld Well NY to LA is pretty self evident, what would you do for Europe? Moscow to Lisbon? It's also probably a lot more difficult to plan as well since you go through different countries...and it's probably much more dangerous to get stopped in a foreign country with stricter vehicle laws.
It drives me insane how ignorant people are when driving here in the US. They go the speed limit or under in the left lane and get mad at you when you want them to get in the far right lane. Total insanity.
The first 5 minutes they just keep jumping red lights, and using bus lanes. I imagine they arent keeping to the speed limits either. Pro tip: Don't break the law while you are breaking the law :D Do one illegal thing at a time.
that´s not an USA exclusive problem. I´m from germany, the sacred land of the glorious autobahn, and you can´t drive it properly for 90% during daytime because rolling as well as solid roadblocks. it´s horrible.
I live in NJ and I can attest to the amazing talent and balls it took to for these people to get out of Manhattan and across NJ in that time frame. The first 24 minutes just incredible.
Cut through NY, (weehawken rt 495), to turnpike, ended on rt 7 passing through Newark in less than 15minutes 😳. I don’t know how tf that’s possible 😂😂😂
Listening and watching the footage made me realize how intense and serious the canonball run actually is. It truly is incredible what these people have accomplished, I think here will always be some form of this sport as long as there is this country to race across, and if not, I hope at least these incredible stories last forever. Awesome video Tedward!
I MUST see some of this footage with the audio!! I'd like to place an order please, for a 2 hour highlight reel of this run with the in-cabin audio and perhaps a digital speed read out. Thank you in advance. 😁 P.s. brilliant podcast.
It's great to see how determined and well organized men can be when it comes to a cause they share. As an outsider, for me this whole mission holds so much power in it.
I don't know if it's a law, but in germany we learn: "only pass a car if you're going at least 20km/h faster". These cars in this video were going at the _exact_ same speed next to each other instead of behind each other. Jeez... The right lane was completely empty! You're supposed to drive as far right as possible, and go left if you want to go faster than what's in front of you.
That's a 'thing" here. People will say they pay for the whole road, they will drive in any lane they want. Or It's their job to make sure other people don't drive fast
Haven't seen the whole thing yet but 22:00 is infuriating. Wonder how much time they'd save in densely populated areas if the public just had lane discipline.
I'm a chill driver with years of experience driving professionally. Just looking at this footage is giving me anxiety, can't even imagine driving there.
Right? Although low key the way he drove inside the city is how a lot of people do. Can't do anywhere without blowing a few reds or going around people.
That was truly infuriating. I swear I find a radar detector more useful not for driving fast myself but for knowing when I may be risking a big ticket to aggressively (but safely) free myself from crap like that.
40:00 - I live in Avon! Crazy seeing that I fill up at this station weekly, then watching a cannonball run stopping there too. Super cool footage by the way, love the content
Ah just got here from listening to one of Doug Tabbut’s cannonball tales on Ed Bolian’s channel this is great timing for another cannonball related conversation
I would even watch maybe a 20 episode series that shows about an hour of footage each episode from a run with commentary from the people who did it and maps and data and everything, so you can watch an entire run basically
love hearing the stories about these insane cannonball runs, would love to see you drive in one of these record attempts lol :) just seeing this car swerve between cars on the highway going 120+ is insane to me haha. couldn't imagine this even being possible in the uk with all the speed cameras :/
40:40: Pretty sure I went to that exact same gas station one of the last times I went through I-70 (in the last couple years). 42:27: Ooooo, I-70 through Glenwood Canyon. About 12mi of the most beautiful interstate there is. (Though they have very advanced equipment to track car movement, including speed, from a main traffic office, so you probably want to keep your speed down there, even when you don't have the one-lane delay you had there. I heard a bit about this story before -- on this channel, I'm pretty sure -- but I didn't realize it happened in Glenwood Canyon. That's so sad!)
Pickup drivers and Soccer mom SUVs are the worst left lane hoggers no matter where you go in the country. Pickup drivers do it out of spite when they see you coming up behind them. Soccer moms are just totally oblivious to left lane rules.
Great video, really interesting watching how the driver dealt with stupid drivers blocking the passing lane. Incredible that the new driver never drove the car or the route before the actual cannonball run.
I think that cannonball runs should be about setting a sub 26/27 hours instead of getting the record, just in the sake of safety. Having a 1st place mentality for such an endurance sprint on public roads is kinda dangerous, the community should praise any sort of time I feel :)
stupid question i guess but i was just wondering: cant you go back (maybe after taking a day break) and try again? (just the same distance but reverse?) i mean you have to go back anyway right? sure you have to organize it. but this way you get two shots.
I remember meeting Pete along with some others involved years back during the Cabot Trail Yuppie Racing Rally. Great group of guys and an unforgettable trip.
35:08 I didnt think that the cannonball route would take you through i70, that loveland ski resort on the left, im heading up there tomorrow. I was kind of surprised to see it when I was just skipping forward. because usually when you watch this sort of thing its just a bunch of roads youve never driven on and a bunch of random scenery youve never seen, kind of nice seeing something familiar in one of these vids. now everytime im driving there ill wonder if the mercedes going 115 in the left lane is a cannonball car.
@@MegaEssin Magazines wrote articles about how selfish it was. Alex Roy made a bunch of posts about how awful they were for taking advantage of the Pandemic traffic. It was a pretty big thing so they stayed quiet
Part of me is thinking how much low hanging fruit is left in the electic cannonball, but on the other hand, I know I would not enjoy 35+ hours of high concentration driving.
speed is not the cause of crashes, speed differential is. Assholes running red lights and turning right from the left lane is a problem. There is nothing laudable in this achievement. signed: M5 driver in Atlanta
What if you gotta shit? Do you just run in during a fuel stop, blast the shitter, pinch it off, and roll on? There's no way I'd be able to do that lol.
I really don’t understand why you wouldn’t pass people in the right lane more... I would sit in the right lane most the time it’s open... left lane drivers get picked off first by the cops anyway. I got frustrated watching this seeing all the minutes that could’ve been shaved off just by going faster and not waiting for people to get over, instead of just blowing by them in the right lane... waiting for people to get out of the left lane when the right lane is wide open is like waiting for the grass to grow. Are you trying to set a record or trying to see people move out of your way. Don’t wait for them to move out of your way, just anticipate them not moving over and just get over in the other lane and fly by them... hold your momentum more and you get more openings and get stuck less behind cars next to each other...
I mean not to take away from the incredible Cars and such but....why not start outside of the City so you don´t endanger Pedestrians and other Vehicles by running Red Lights and such. You can still drive fast but just don´t do it in the City smh. There´s Reasons why you stop at Red Lights....
It's pretty hard to do something like this here. In the UK it's absolutely impossible to cover large distances fast. Germany is free, for eastern europe you will need a bit of money to bribe the police, I am not sure what's the situation with the rest of europe like Belgium, the netherlands, austria, etc. But camera technology here is different, they use laser cameras, so radar detectors do not work. You will need car with foreign plates of country you do not cross and hope police don't chase you.
and how long does it take for the car to reach 300? top speed doesnt matter if it takes ages to reach it and diesels are known for having bad high rpm performance.
@@Adryqpoe005 are you saying its doing 3400rpm at 300? also the car weighs 2700kg, that is very very heavy for top speed, it takes about 35 seconds for the car to do 100-250kmh, that's horrible for cannonball
@@Robin-hi8oq well if it's possible to skip fuel stops entirely that's already 10 min saved, and if it can truly cruise at 3400 rpm at top speed fuel economy won't even be too bad. If the 4.2tdi isn't powerful enough, there always is the vw V12 diesel which also is a le Mans winning engine
