Do other countries not do this kind of cross-country race? Seems Perth to Brisbane would be an interesting run. Or in Europe, Lisbon in Portugal to Tallinn in Estonia? Or I dunno, Sao Paulo to Belem in Brazil?
Maybe it’s just Americans who are that addicted to cars.
There’s cameras and speed limits everywhere. You’d be able to buy Lichtenstein with the amount of fines you’ll have to pay after a run like that
That’s true in the US as well. A cannonball run takes weeks of prep work and usually an entire team of people to map out an ideal route that sticks to mostly rural areas, dodges cameras and law enforcement, and avoids traffic. There are places the team has set up to refuel, and alternate routes in case the first route develops a sudden case of cops.
I so badly want to do this. What better time than during Quarantine2020?
Qurarantine is why the Cannon Ball Run Sea-to-Shining Sea record was broken seven times by the time this article had been written.
Brock Yates may be dead, but he’s having a pretty good 2020.
I want to make Star Wars Kessel Run jokes so badly here.
The SBNATION podcast IT SEEMED SMART had a good episode about this although it was pre quarantine times
How to Plan to Break the Law in 20 States at Once - It Seemed Smart The Cannonball Run, a 28-hour car sprint across the United States, involves a thousand small challenges, and two huge ones: how to fool the Pocket Casts