The Porsche 9R3 was meant to stop Audi’s Le Mans dominance. Instead, it gave its V10 heart to the Carrera GT
When Audi debuted its R8 Le Mans Prototype in 2000, there was nothing to stop it. The R8 ran away with five overall victories at Le Mans and dozens of wins elsewhere. Over the last two years, Audi’s sports car dominance has been thwarted by corporate brother Porsche, but what if Porsche had built a car to challenge to the original R8 back in 2000? … More
Bryce Menzies made history by jumping his off-road truck 379.4 feet over a New Mexico ghost town to set a new truck distance record. The project, entitled “Bryce Menzies New Frontier powered by Pennzoil® Synthetics,” saw Menzies launch ramp-to-ramp in his Pro 2 (two-wheel drive) race truck, soaring past the official Guinness World Records distance record of 301 feet as well as the unofficial record of 332 feet. An adjudicator for Guinness World Records was on-site to verify the distance and authenticate the new record.
Off-road truck driver Bryce Menzies will give new meaning to the term “high noon” when he launches his Pro 2 truck over a Southwest ghost town later this year. For the jump, Menzies will pilot his two-wheel drive Pro 2 short course truck, which boasts 900 horsepower and 500 lb.-ft. of torque, over the frontier ghost town located in the American Southwest. With only modest modifications being made to the truck, Menzies will look to exceed the current off-road truck distance record of 332 ft.