MotoAmerica rider Josh Herrin entered the Guinness Book thanks to his feat achieved last December at Buttonwillow Raceway in California: riding his Yamaha R6, he covered 30 meters at 162,4 km/h, his elbow resting on the ground.
Resting your elbow is a crazy idea. For ordinary people, putting your knee on the track is already a difficult goal to achieve... Professional drivers sometimes place their elbow on the curb in fast and tight curves, in order to gauge their angle of inclination.
American rider Josh Herrin, who races in MotoAmerica, landed his elbow 30 meters at a speed of 162,4 km/h to set a world record officialized by the Guinness Book: the fastest elbow landing on a motorcycle. A record that did not exist until then!
Herrin's weapon of choice was a Yamaha R6, a machine he felt comfortable enough on to try something pretty crazy. The attempt took place at Buttonwillow Raceway, California, which has a corner that's both fast enough and tight enough for Josh Herrin to angle enough to put his elbow on the ground. On December 4, 2020, it took him 3 attempts before he succeeded in making this record official.
The MotoAmerica rider managed to cover 30 meters without ever lifting his elbow from the asphalt, at a speed of 162,4 km/h. Indeed, the threshold set by Guinness World Records inspectors for the record Herrin wanted to set was 100 feet and 101 miles per hour.
He commented on his performance thus: “Winning is not only crossing the finish line in front of others, sometimes also means achieving a goal, surpassing a limit, which becomes exactly like an opponent.”
Records are made to be broken, not to be useful!
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