AfroDuck’s record has fallen. One video posted to YouTube with little fanfare in late July showed the driver of the McLaren 720S completing a NYC lap in 21 minutes 3.16 seconds – beating The 24:07 record that brought AfroDuck to famemade him a fugitive, and forced him into exile in Canada.
Latest video, caught Jalopnik’s attention by Fred Smith over at Sugar & Sugar, which purports to show the unnamed driver of a white McLaren 720S completing a 24.5-mile lap around Manhattan on June 29, 2020, at 2:36 a.m. The driver claims to have stopped 24 of the 58 possible red lights along the route and a picture on McLaren’s dashboard at the end of the track shows the car, with just over 1,200 miles on the odometer road, recorded an average speed of 69 mph and an average fuel consumption of 5.9 mpg in the 21-minute run. (For reference, same route takes about 42 minutes if you are obeying traffic laws.)
The timing of the McLaren run is remarkable, as is the way the video was released. As the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, New York City began closing on March 23, 2020. The city was still largely closed when the McLaren driver recorded this lap, in the early hours of Monday morning. . Apparently, the driver hopes to avoid the fate of AfroDuck by keeping this record a secret for more than 2 years: The video was only uploaded to YouTube on July 21, 2022, nearly 25 months after the alleged run-in took place.
This is an account of the 4x acceleration of McLaren’s lap in Manhattan; We have also included video of real speed in cars at the end of this article.
Challengers of illegal public road speed records had a field day during the COVID lockdown era. The records for cross-country Cannonball are set and broken with astonishing frequency during the era of lockdowns because of daredevils taking advantage of empty streets and the fact that police and emergency crews are busy handling a global pandemic that has killed more than a million people in just a few days. exclusively in the United States. It’s a miracle, as far as anyone knows, that no one has been killed or injured in any selfish record-setting attempt with no prize pool, no governing body, and dwindling glory. gradually.
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Consider what happened to AfroDuck. He completed his 24-minute lap on August 26, 2013, driving an antique 2006 BMW Z4. Video by AfroDuck landed on the Internet just 3 days laterand when Jalopnik first chatted with AfroDuck – real name Adam Tang – in the days that followed, he was sure he would never to get caught.
That optimism proved naive. By September 4, then NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly was target behind AfroDuck. Only a day laterTang is 30 years old put into administration NYPD. His British Columbia-registered blue BMW Z4 was impounded. Tang pleaded guilty and had his license suspended (later he was arrested for driving on that suspended license). After an experiment that sometimes develops into funny comparison between Tang’s lap and a Formula 1 raceTang flee to Canada. His license and passport were revoked, but he was able to get his Z4 out of the NYPD and apparently he crossed the US-Canada border with his Canadian birth certificate.
Tang already guilty 2nd degree dangerous conduct and reckless driving in November 2014, sentenced to one year in prison. He stay in Canadaappeared blatantly on TV and blamed his treatment at the hands of the NYPD about his “nice Canadian” image.
As Tang wrote in an article published on JalopnikHis internet car fame essentially ruined his life in NYC, forcing him to flee to Canada – a decision that made maybe saved him from facing any long-term legal consequences. This year, Sugar & Sugar Interview with Tang, who describes himself as the victim of “malicious prosecution” by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. Since returning to Canada, Tang said R&The was contacted once by a Canadian police officer, but he said the officer told him “we won’t do anything” about his US arrest warrant.
Below is the fully unedited video of the McLaren 720S completing a 21-minute lap in Manhattan.
