Ford Takes Away a Silly Guinness World Record from Chevrolet
Ford and Chevrolet continue to fight over world records.
Whether it’s the Ford Mustang vs. the Chevrolet Camaro, or the F-150 vs. the Silverado, Ford and Chevrolet had been competing directly with one another for decades. In late September, Chevrolet set a Guinness World Record with a 40 x 80-foot flag pull at the Texas Motor Speedway, and now Ford has taken the record away.
The company took its all-new 2017 Ford F-450 Super Duty to Homestead-Miami Speedway, where it pulled a 45 x 92-foot U.S. flag over four laps on the 1.5-mile track.
Powered by a 6.7-liter Power Stroke turbo diesel V8 engine with 440 horsepower and 925 pound-feet of torque, the F-450 had to travel beyond the 328 feet (100 meters) previous record mark without the flag touching the ground. The pickup officially covered a verified distance of 360 feet (109 meters).
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To make it all happen, Ford constructed 45-foot riggings from eyelet to eyelet to enable the F-450 a driving roll-out of the massiave flag. A team of 20 launched and retrieved the flag, ensuring it did not touch the ground.
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