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From Autoline Daily:

BENTLEY ON ICE
Bentley set a new world speed record . . . on ice! Finnish rally champion Juha Kankkunen – sorry for butchering the pronunciation – piloted a Continental Supersports convertible on the frozen Baltic Sea, topping 330 kilometers an hour! For our ‘Merican listeners that’s more than 205 miles an hour. The speed was based on the average of two runs in opposite directions. It was certified by the Finland Traffic Police and the Guinness Book of Records. Surprisingly, the car needed only minimal modifications to break the record. It received a special safety cage, Pirelli winter tires and a parachute to help bring it to a stop. Its 600 horsepower 12-cylinder engine appears unchanged from the factory version. It even ran on E85 ethanol, because the environment’s important, even when you’re breaking speed records.

Tups - when were you planning on letting us know about this? I bet the whole town came out to watch!

http://primary.newspress.co.uk/LINKS/63080bm/index.html
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If you can't pronounce Kankkunen, just use the English equivalent - Hangover. Just like you can call me Scrap.

There's only one vehicle I would consider taking if I had to go out to the frozen Baltic Sea.
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Tups wrote:If you can't pronounce Kankkunen, just use the English equivalent - Hangover. Just like you can call me Scrap.

There's only one vehicle I would consider taking if I had to go out to the frozen Baltic Sea.
http://www.autoweek.com/article/2011021 ... /110219917

Neat to see it running and then pop the chute.

Hangover? Scrap? I heard that many Italian surnames are derogatory in nature. Oh well, I suppose that beats having to choose a surname from a rather limited number of words in a poem (Kind of ironic that the most populous country in the whirled has the most restricted list of available names)
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Yeah, and it's always nice to see Finns achieving something at times like this.

I heard they made the record in Oulu. According to the ice map the icebreaker assigned there is Kontio. I wonder if they notified it to prevent thisthis[/url] from happening for the ice road they had prepared.

Finnish surnames are not always derogatory (and I don't consider mine being one even though I was bullied because of it when I was a kid) and most of them don't really mean anything. Still, in the army I served with Baggy, Strange, Rum, Boatwoods, Behind-The-Swamp, Foambeach, Life...
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