Hot Wheels stunt drivers have set a new world record after completing a 360-degree huge double-loop. The
stunt track was modelled as a giant version of the toy Hot Wheels
Double Dare Snare track, and mounted as part of the X Games in Los
Angeles on the weekend. The drivers of each car, rally racer
Tanner Foust and Hollywood stuntman Greg Tracy completed the double-loop
in tandem, reaching 85km/h and 7Gs: seven times the force of gravity,
and around the same that jet fighter pilots experience. The pair
-- racing as Team Green and Team Yellow -- trained for a year to
complete the loop, which always held the risk of the drivers passing out
from the gravity forces. The massive 18.2-metre high spiral track
broke the previous record set last year by Chinese racer Li Yatao, who
circled a Youngman Lotus L5 Sportback around a 12.8m loop in Shanghai,
which was performed partly as a promo for for the Chinese-owned Zhejiang
Youngman Lotus.
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