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Looks like Alex Harvill will be attempting to break Robbie Maddison's distance record jump (ramp to ramp) and he will be doing so on May 7th at the Talladega NASCAR event.
Scheduled to happen just before the race gets started and will be televised on FOX.
He's already has a couple distance records and says that his personal best is currently 425ft however I believe that was from ramp to dirt. He says he wants to go over the 400ft mark and believes that he can replicate the jump even though it'll be ramp to ramp.
I'll definitely tune in to watch it go down.
Good luck to him.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nascar/2017/04/20/alex-harvill-mo…
Scheduled to happen just before the race gets started and will be televised on FOX.
He's already has a couple distance records and says that his personal best is currently 425ft however I believe that was from ramp to dirt. He says he wants to go over the 400ft mark and believes that he can replicate the jump even though it'll be ramp to ramp.
I'll definitely tune in to watch it go down.
Good luck to him.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nascar/2017/04/20/alex-harvill-mo…
That's fucking insane.
Honestly never thought 400' would be possible considering how big a deal they made out of 300' and how crazy that was.
The Shop
30 feet of landing area is even scarier. At 425 feet, with a 30 foot wide landing area, if your heading is off by 2.0214 degrees when you leave the takeoff, you hit the side of your landing ramp. This is an insanely narrow window.
30 feet wide isn't all that much. A gust of wind sideways and I think he could totally miss the landing.
Maddison's record jump was ramp to dirt and his is ramp to ramp. Maddison's was on a 500 two stroke and Harvill looks like he's on a 450. How can they make a 450 reach speeds of 110 mph? That's 177 km/h. Let me tell you I've been over 200 km/h before albeit on a snowmobile and not a bike but seeing the ground and trees go by at those speeds it's fast. I couldn't even imagine going that fast and hitting a ramp let alone flying over 400 feet and sticking the landing.
It's sad to say but eventually it won't end so well for one of those guys. If you've seen the movie Seth The Hard Way it's suprising it hasn't already happened. Seth's jump went way wrong and if I remember correctly that was just over half the distance Harvill is attempting.
https://youtu.be/TGui7goeh8I
Robbie's football field jump.
https://youtu.be/sSvvOxV4e3M
Ryan Capes near 400 feet jump.
https://youtu.be/odikylc80tI
And does anyone know whatever happened to this guy? Seems like he had balls. Just stepped away from the sport?
https://youtu.be/ZgELaNRB8Uc
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Pit Row
If I was doing ramp-to-ramp Id get ride of them knobbys and get something with grip.
He almost flat landed all of his jumps, so he better make a big ass metal ramp....
If it was me, I would stick to the dirt landing and get a big ass stroker 450 and gear it to do 500 ft! Fuck that metal landing ramp biz, thats dangerous as hell, LOL!
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