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[Watch] Monster Trucks!! Big Foot Flies to new World Record

Thursday, October 18, 2012 21:40

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By Zack Klapman

You want to see legendary monster truck Big Foot make a shitload of noise, drive WOT at a jump, and set a new long-jump world record? Fuckin’ A right you do. This is just awesome, and a moment deserving of that description.

Two hundred and fourteen feet and eight inches. That seems like a “pin it and pray” moment. What a spectacle. Monster trucks…if autosport was fighting F1 would be samurai, rally would be MMA, and monster trucks would be two giants swinging telephone poles at each other. Before you even start, we’re aware Tanner Faust went farther, but it’s a different game in something this big and heavy. There’s a violence and intensity to this that -to me- one ups the Hot Wheels stunt.

Here’s Big Foot’s previous record, from 1999, jumping 202 feet over a plane, with pyrotechnics. ‘Merica!