Speed demon’s Manhattan record
It was a Manhattan-ball run.
A driver set an
illegal land speed record for a single lap around the borough — cutting
and weaving through the 26.5-mile route in a hair-raising 24 minutes.
The
anonymous speed demon averaged about 66 mph during the late-night
circuit, which was captured on a dramatic dashboard-cam video and posted
to YouTube under the username AfroDuckProduction.
The drive
breaks the previous mark of 26 minutes set in 2010. In both runs, the
drivers cut out the top of Manhattan above the Cross Bronx Expressway.
“You
frankly can’t identify who I am by just looking at the video,” AfroDuck
boasted to the car-geek Web site Jalopnik about his Aug. 26 ride, “and
records were meant to be broken.”
ZIP CAR: Weaving in and out of traffic at an
average speed of 66 mph, a driver using a dashboard cam in a BMW Z4
(like this, above) made it around Manhattan in 24 minutes.
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly promised to hunt down the dangerous
driver, saying, “We now have license-plate readers in the city that will
assist in this type of investigation.”
AfroDuck used a 2006 BMW Z4 for the breakneck drive.
The
video clip, with a stopwatch superimposed on the screen, shows a
clockwise run beginning on the southbound FDR Drive at the 116th Street
entrance.
From there, the car barrels under the East River
crossings, through the Battery Park tunnel and onto West Street, where
the driver ran just one red light.
The real action takes place on
the last leg, with AfroDuck handling the Cross Bronx on and off ramps
like a luger on amphetamines.
AfroDuck insisted no other
motorists were endangered, telling Jalopnik, “Being a fast driver
doesn’t mean that you’re inherently a bad or reckless driver.”
AfroDuck practically dared anybody to challenge the record: “Go ahead. Just watch out for the speeding tickets.”
Credit :
NY Post
