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"Records are meant to be broken. That&amp;#039;s how the Guinness Book of World Records stays in production, after all. In the case of the transcontinental driving record, there is now a new man on top. His name is Ed Bolian, and in addition to being the 27 year-old Sales Director at Lamborghini Atlanta, he is also a massive speed freak. Ed didn&amp;#039;t just break rally driver and Gumball 3000 winner Alex Roy&amp;#039;s previous record, set in 2006 - he completely blew it into next week. In October of 2006, Roy and co-driver David Maher set what was then the new transcontinental driving record. Their time was 31 hours and four minutes. What was Ed&amp;#039;s time? 28 hours and 50 minutes. That&amp;#039;s over two hours faster, and in long-distance racing (or driving), that&amp;#039;s about 10 years. The three-man team, consisting of Ed, a co-driver, and a passenger completed the journey in a 2004 Mercedes-Benz CL55 AMG. The starting point and ending points were the same as those that were used in the original Cannonball run - the Red Ball Garage in Manhattan, and the Portofino Hotel in Redondo Beach, California, respectively. If you want to read the full stories on Roy&amp;#039;s and Bolian&amp;#039;s records, head over to Jalopnik. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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