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4 Comments October 14, 2009
Team Polizei Goes From NYC To Miami in Five Minutes
Extremely cool time-lapse of Team Polizei driving a long way in a technogasm of a BMW.
The E39 M5, piloted by Alex Roy, which Team Polizei has used in the past to break the transcontinental speed/time record is a serious piece of technological wizardry. The reason we know this is because way back in our first issue we got insider access and asked the man what the hell was going on inside that car and what purpose it served—from the Valentine One radar detector to the Blinder X-treme M40x laser jammer—to help him cross a continent in record time.
Now, Team Polizei shows us what 1,284 miles looks like in five minutes (4:59 to be exact) after 4,435 photos taken in 22 hours to get to Homestead Raceway. Check the speedometer, it looks to be hovering around 80-100 mph most of the time, we respect the commitment.
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4 Responses to “Team Polizei Goes From NYC To Miami in Five Minutes”
10.14.09 at 8:17 pm
Umai Kakudo says:
WTF. A Starbucks stop at 4:13???? FAIL
10.14.09 at 10:26 pm
Kaveman says:
It was definitely McDonalds, Umai. Sweet car, lots of tech-friendly mods.
10.16.09 at 4:46 pm
Jason says:
I have mixed feelings about Alex Roy and Team Polizei. In 2006, Roy set his 31:04 record x-country run. He averaged 90mph and hit a top speed of 160. In 1971, Yates and Gurney did the Cannonball Run in 35:54, averaged 80mph, and hit a reported top speed of 170+. Roy timed his run so traffic would be at an absolute minimal, and carefully planned a route that would have minimal stops. He also had all manner of techno-gizmos and a freakin’ spotter plane to help him evade the PO-PO and their technology. Yates and Gurney had a Ferrari, a paper map (no Google maps, no GPS ect) and a rogue passion for cars. Roy is also a multi-millionaire businessman with giant piles of cash at his disposal. So in 35 years, and with all that money and technology, Roy was able to take 5 hours off Yates&Gurneys time. Yates&Gurney clipped 17+ hours off Erwin Bakers original 1933 time of 53.5 hours. Granted the national highway system had yet to be built in 1933, and automotive advancements between 33 and 71 were far more dramatic than between 71 and 06…but I just can’t help but feel that Roy and his lot are a bit show-offish, a band of wealthy hoons using their resources rather than wits and cunning to perform automotive stunts…
10.22.09 at 9:42 am
Fernando says:
Good video, sleepy lounge music…