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Race car driver Alexander Roy documents his 31 hour and 4 minute journey from New York to Los Angeles in his BMW M5 in his new book titled The Driver: My Dangerous Pursuit of Speed and Truth in the Outlaw Racing World
Planning for the drive involved finicky attention to detail — from calling each gas station en route to ensure they were open at night (during which two thirds of the driving took place) just in case they ran short of fuel, to testing the Travel John emergency urination bags to see if they would hold survive the fast and furious driving conditions.
With his friend and team member, The Weis, flying a single engine Cessna spotter aircraft, Roy embarked on a seemingly foolhardy, potentially dangerous and possibly illegal journey to break cross-country driving records that had been deemed unbreakable since the seventies, and lived to tell his tale.
Roy’s book is out on Harper-Collins.