World record attempt at the Rock

[rev-erend]

Anyone know how they got on with this.. ?

[E2DJH]

Looks like 551
Well done to all

[Pasco]

And what a site to see

[central]

What are the rules for an official record?

[central]

[amazon]

central said:

What are the rules for an official record?

All sorts of stuff - can't remember the exact list but things like, no more than two car lengths apart, not separated by any other vehicle, etc. etc. Not sure how it's all verified though.

All that said - it was a great sight! Loved it. Think we should have gone a bit faster though The sound would have been amazing! And it would have been easier to control the distances as well.

What we really needed was Bosscerbera out front as the pace car!

[madbadger]

amazon said:

central said:

What are the rules for an official record?

All sorts of stuff - can't remember the exact list but things like, no more than two car lengths apart, not separated by any other vehicle, etc. etc. Not sure how it's all verified though.

All that said - it was a great sight! Loved it. Think we should have gone a bit faster though The sound would have been amazing! And it would have been easier to control the distances as well.

What we really needed was Bosscerbera out front as the pace car!

Oh well! Unless the 'car' length is some sort of stretch Cerbie.

[rev-erend]

Must have sounded great.

A TVR traffic jam - now that is a new thing

[hab1966]

It made the Formula 1 coverage on Five Live, thanks to Peninsular texting in. Although they never mentioned TVR, just that the record had been broken. I think the commentatot got confused as he asked how many Ferraris were on the track.

[Marty G]

amazon said:

All sorts of stuff - can't remember the exact list but things like, no more than two car lengths apart, not separated by any other vehicle, etc. etc. Not sure how it's all verified though.

According the the TVRCC crew it was all videod and the video has to be sent to the guiness world records HQ then confirmed in a few days.

We were closer to the 2 car lengths than the ferraris were apparently so it should all be ok.

ETA: at an estimated value of 15k per car, the 'traffic jam' value would have been around 8 million pounds!

Edited by Marty G on Monday 6th August 11:40

[Pasco]

Also if you took the average BHP of lets say 230 per car (real hp not TVR numbers)
you would still have 126,730 combined BHP

[FlipFlopGriff]

I was 6th in the line so got back to the paddock to watch above the pits and cars were still entering 30 minutes later. Thought it would have been more than 551.
Bloody thing wanted to stall all the time so I had to keep my foot on the acclerator most of the way round as I didn't want to screw up the attempt.
FFG

[.Woody]

If everyone who had a TVR there took part it could have been 600 at least. Damn shame for those who were there in their Tivs didnt take part. But great effort all round

[rev-erend]

FlipFlopGriff said:

I was 6th in the line so got back to the paddock to watch above the pits and cars were still entering 30 minutes later. Thought it would have been more than 551.
Bloody thing wanted to stall all the time so I had to keep my foot on the acclerator most of the way round as I didn't want to screw up the attempt.
FFG

How embarising would that have been .. to breakdown on a parade lap and after all that polishing

Guess you cleaned the back of your car - so the people pushing would not get dirty hands :

Edited by rev-erend on Monday 6th August 14:28

[Pupp]

rev-erend said:

FlipFlopGriff said:

I was 6th in the line so got back to the paddock to watch above the pits and cars were still entering 30 minutes later. Thought it would have been more than 551.
Bloody thing wanted to stall all the time so I had to keep my foot on the acclerator most of the way round as I didn't want to screw up the attempt.
FFG

How enbarising would that have been .. to breakdown on a parade lap and after all that polishing

Did see a Chim being pushed out the tunnel on the return... oops

[AlexRWD]

rev-erend said:

A TVR traffic jam - now that is a new thing

Not if you were in London for London Thunder it wasn't

[V8Cerbera]

AlexRWD said:

rev-erend said:

A TVR traffic jam - now that is a new thing

Not if you were in London for London Thunder it wasn't

That was a hell of a traffic jam... and we had eager crowds begging us to push the loud pedal

[sprintmp]

Pupp said:

Did see a Chim being pushed out the tunnel on the return... oops

Yep, that was my gym visits taken care of for the year!

[FlipFlopGriff]

Rev,
I was in my own Griff this time!
FFG

[Matt172]

central said:

What are the rules for an official record?

details are here Mark http://www.fronteraowners.co.uk/info/Parades%20of%...
has to be no more than 2 car lengths apart, and for a distance of at least 2 miles