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Škoda has set two official world ice drift records with the Enyaq RS iV SUV, the brand’s second all-electric sporting model. The records for the ’Longest Continuous Vehicle Drift on Ice’ and the ‘Longest Continuous Vehicle Drift on Ice (electric car)’, have been verified by GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS. They were set by motoring journalist Richard Meaden on a circular track measuring 188.496 m in circumference on the frozen Stortjärnen lake near Östersund, Sweden, on Thursday 19 January 2023.The first record broken by Škoda on the Stortjärnen lake was for the Longest Continuous Vehicle Drift on Ice. Driving the recently launched Škoda Enyaq RS iV SUV, Richard Meaden set a new officially-verified record by holding the car in a controlled slide for more than 15 minutes and 7.351 km. Meaden’s drift beat the previous record of 6.231 km, set in China in 2022. In breaking the first record, Meaden and the Škoda Enyaq RS iV SUV set a second record for the ‘Longest Continuous Vehicle Drift on Ice (electric car)’.With a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS adjudicator present and international drifting judge David Kalas as a witness, Škoda set the record on the brand’s fourth day on location following numerous practice runs with different tyre combinations. A total of 18 hours of drifting were put in across the full five days in sub-zero temperatures to achieve the perfect drift.
Valkyrie Racing’s upcoming ‘Project 356 World Rally’ ice challenge has hit the perfect trifecta when it comes to extreme. From racer and philanthropist Renee Brinkerhoff who is spearheading the completion of her 7th continent of endurance racing, coupled with a humanitarian effort to combat child trafficking -- to Jason de Carteret, famed world-record holder in polar exploration, serving as her navigator (with more than 50 expeditions under his belt) -- and finally, to the completely re-engineered 1956 Porsche 356A vintage vehicle that has been transformed with solar panels and a crevasse bar to sympathetically traverse Antarctica’s challenging terrain and withstand the severe weather conditions. The impending 356-mile ice trek, scheduled to begin December 5, 2021, will mark the conclusion of a near 20,000-mile commitment to pursue the ultimate endeavor by one woman, one car and one global mission to end child trafficking.
Jakarta / Banda Aceh / Denpasar / Medan, Jul 17 (EFE/EPA).- Indonesia has reached a world record for daily cases, with 54,000 cases reported in the last 24 hours, and has become one of the epicenters of the outbreak in Asia. (Camera: ARCHIVE).ARCHIVE FOOTAGE OF THE COVID-19 SITUATION IN JAKARTA, BANDA ACEH, DENPASAR AND MEDAN INDONESIA.
New Delhi, Apr 22 (EFE).- India Thursday added nearly 315,000 Covid-19 patients, the world's highest daily number of coronavirus infections since the pandemic began. (Camera: MONCHO TORRES)SHOT LIST: PATIENTS OUTSIDE THE NEW DELHI AIIMS HOSPITAL AND THE SAFDARJUNG HOSPITAL IN NEW DELHI, INDIA.
Kathmandu (Nepal), Mar 31 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Narendra Shrestha) .- Spanish mountaineer Carlos Soria, 82, will begin the climb of Dhaulagiri in the Himalayas, the seventh highest peak in the world --8,167 meters of altitude--, an achievement that would dedicate to the people of his generation "who have suffered in the pandemic."FOOTAGE OF SPANISH ALPINIST CARLOS SORIA, 82, IN KATHMANDU, NEPAL.
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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