The world record for a jump by a semi-truck has been smashed by stuntman Gregg Godfrey, who somehow powered his vehicle 166 feet on Friday, the Daily Beast reported. It was in the process of setting a world record for longest jump by a semi truck. Godfrey also released a short clip from inside the cab on Instagram (embedded below), and, as you might have expected, the stunt looked far more violent from that perspective.
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This isn’t the daredevil’s first such stunt either, Mashable reports, as he set a record in 2008 with a 50-foot jump.
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Knievel himself blessed the jump, saying, “Gregg Godfrey just brought Evel Knievel Days to a whole new level”. In front of a crowd of 2,000, Godfrey put the pedal to the metal on his 9-ton Freightliner truck, flying off a dirt ramp for a distance of 166 feet.
