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Red Ball Garage in New York on East 31st Street The Portofino Hotel (bottom right) in Redondo Beach, California. A Cannonball Run is an unsanctioned speed record for driving across the United States, typically accepted to run from New York City's Red Ball Garage to the Portofino Hotel in Redondo Beach near Los Angeles, covering a distance of about 2,906 miles (4,677 km). [1]
The Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, widely known as the Cannonball Baker or Cannonball Run, was an unofficial, unsanctioned automobile race run five times in the 1970s from New York City and Darien, Connecticut, on the East Coast of the United States to the Portofino Inn [1] in the Los Angeles suburb of Redondo Beach, California.
Cannonball Run Challenge, an unsanctioned speed record drive from New York to Los Angeles Erwin "Cannon Ball" Baker's 1933 drive from New York City to Los Angeles; Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, an outlaw car race run several times in the 1970s, memorializing Erwin Baker's drive
His run in 27 hours 16 minutes is the fastest post Covid, fastest solo, and fastest in a diesel. He now holds three. Diesel BMW Driver Smashes Solo Coast-to-Coast Cannonball Record
Doug Tabbutt learned the hard way that the Cannonball Run crown is far heavier than it looks. Thrills, not fame or glory, motivated Tabbutt and two friends to take a shot at breaking the ...
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In May 2007, Richard Rawlings and co-pilot Dennis Collins allegedly broke the 1979 Cannonball Run time from New York City to Los Angeles of 32 hours and 51 minutes. The two bet rival Jay Riecke that they could beat the time in their 2007 Bullrun entry, a black Ferrari 550, modified with extra fuel cells.
Alexander Roy (born November 23, 1971) is an American writer, podcaster, TV host and rally race driver who has set various endurance driving records, including the US "Cannonball Run" transcontinental driving record, which he and Dave Maher broke in 2007 in 31 hours and 4 minutes, featured in the 2019 documentary APEX: The Secret Race Across America.