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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.
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.
A group of Berlin chefs decided that the record for the world's biggest doner belongs in Berlin and made an official attempt for the world's biggest kebab at the Mall of Berlin in Potsdamer Platz last weekend. The record attempt in Berlin was successful and was verified by the Record Institute of Germany, a counterpart of the Guinness Book of World Records, and weighed in at 934 pounds in total.
Ready, steady, pull! Thousands of participants grabbed one end of the rope in the annual Naha Tug-on-war festival in Naha city, Japan over the weekend and pulled with all their might and muster in an event that was officially declared the largest tug-of-war ever fought. 17 team members had spent some 40 days in order to prepare the 656 foot rope, which was also recognised by Guinness Book of World Records as the largest straw rope ever made.
Staying fit is a challenge at any age, but 103-year-old Mieko Nagaoka continues to swim laps well past her century mark. In fact, the Japanese world record swimmer is training twice a week with her son Hiroyuki Nagaoka at the Yanai Swimming school in Japan's Yamaguchi prefecture, for another major competition. Her body is not failing her, in fact, she is only getting stronger and quicker in preparation for when her speed in the water will be measured against the clock.
Gourmet enthusiasts in Fontana, California broke the Guinness Record for the world's longest pizza on Saturday, with the Margherita measuring a whopping 6,333 feet, or just a hair short of 1.2 miles long. Organised at the city’s Auto Club Speedway, some 20,000 pounds of dough, 15,000 pounds of mozzarella, and two tonnes of tomato sauce were used in the pizza's creation.