People keep breaking records in illegal Cannonball Run

With the COVID-19 pandemic now seemingly set to last for months, lead-footed drivers are taking to the United States’ empty streets to smash the illegal cross-country Cannonball Run record like never before.

Since quarantines started, seven Cannonball records have allegedly been broken, which has to be a record in itself. The highly illegal and dangerous street race starts at the Red Ball Garage in Manhattan on the East Coast and ends on the opposite side of

America, at the Portofini Inn in Redondo Beach, California.

Not only has the overall record been reportedly broken more than once, but records for solo-driver, diesel-powered, and coast-tocoast-and-back-again Cannonballs have been completely destroyed, with the last of those being smashed by almost 20 hours versus the old record.

According to previous record-holder Ed Bolian, the new record to beat is less than 26 hours. From talking with the speeders who hold the record and doing the math, he figures that means they would have averaged about 193 km/h crossing “several” states. The vehicle used to set the most recent record has not been revealed.

The first time a COVID-19 Cannonball attempt was successfully pulled off, the anonymous drivers used a white Audi A8 set up with giant fuel tanks in the trunk. This spurred previous record holders to make hypocritical statements about how dangerous it was to attempt a cross-country speed run during a pandemic, apparently blissfully unaware they themselves completed the race while the streets were filled with cars.