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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.
Prague (Czech Republic.), Feb 23 (EFE) - (Camera: Martin Divisek) Czech Davil Vencl broke the world record in free diving on Tuesday in Lake Vápenka, in the north of the Czech Republic, where he covered 80.9 meters and surpassed the 76.5-meter mark of Denmark's Stig Severinsen.FOOTAGE OF THE MOMENT WHEN THE RECORD WAS BROKEN AND STATEMENTS BY THE DIVER, DAVIL VENCL.TRANSLATION:"It was faster than I expected, I felt great. At the end, I had trained.""The record is just the cherry on top. To tell the truth, I thought that when I emerged and set the record, I would get peace in the world or a change in the course of humanity , but it probably won't be like that."
Moscow, Oct 14 (EFE / EPA), (Camera: Sergei Ilnitsky).- The head of the Russian Power Extreme Federation Sergei Agadzhanyan broke the world record after pulling a 41-ton truck by moving it 12.5 meters in 64 seconds.FOOTAGE OF SERGEI AGADZHANYAN BREAKING THE WORLD RECORD.
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A literal army of snowmen, 2,018 to be exact, greeted residents of the Chinese city of Harbin on Thursday at the Qunli Bund theme park to ring in the New Year. Some 424,000 cubic feet of snow were reportedly used in making the sculptures. The exhibition is set to bid for the Guinness World Record for the greatest number of snowmen in a park.
Driven by a desire to discover the world at full speed, François Gabart completed the fastest non-stop solo navigation of the world in 42 days, 16 hours, 40 minutes and 35 seconds, earning him a world record. SOUNDBITE
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