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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.
Images of rescue operations a day after at least 132 people died in India when a colonial-era pedestrian bridge packed with revellers collapsed into the river below, police said Monday. IMAGES
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Russia has long been known as the land of the snow, and they certainly know how to enjoy winter. Welcome to Moscow's Gorky Park, the scene of one of Europe's biggest, and longest, ice skating rinks. Artificial ice covers nearly two hundred thousand square feet of Gorky park, so you wouldn't be wrong if you said that you could skate for eternity. This year's skaters at Gorky Park noticed a big difference. Nearly forty thousand square foot of graffiti has been sprayed under the ice in different styles. One of the pieces even featured Russian warships from the early 20th century. Visitors can also enjoy an eight-metre high frozen fountain as well as an ice maze, which invokes the magic of the Northern Lights through its green illuminations. It's not all bad in Russia for the winter, but if you're trying to skate Gorky Park in the cold season, make sure to bundle up!
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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