Extreme sports fan Alex Roy has claimed to have smashed the record for the fastest "Cannonball Run" across the United States, defying police and speed traps.
Alex Roy, 35, who waited a year to boast about his exploits and remains vague about the exact dates in a bid to avoid any prosecution, said he had blistered across 13 states in 31 hours and four minutes, breaking the record by more than an hour.
Car enthusiast and rally driver Roy travelled the 4496km from New York on the east coast to Santa Monica, California at an average 145km/h.
At times though he reached 257km/h while breaking the previous record set in 1983 of 32 hours and 17 minutes.
The American drive, who is of German origin, set the record at the wheel of his blue BMW stamped with "Team Polizei" and traveled with a cameraman to document the event.
He also equipped his car with several GPS units, police scanners and radar detectors in a bid to beat speed traps.
"The GPS really is not that useful because there are only four tolls and maybe four turns between New York and LA. This is purely to calculate our speed and time," he told a TV reporter.
He added that he was usually he's a very careful driver who has had only one speeding ticket in the past five years. - AFP