Johnny Greaves sets a World Record by jumping a TORC PRO 2WD Truck 301 feet
“He made, you know? As he always does. He made it look good. He made it look easy. But that jump was frickin’ huge. I’m sure driving towards that jump at 105 miles per hour it looked like a toothpick. And it wasn’t steep – it was only angled at 10 degrees – but at 105 miles per hour it probably looked like a Supercross triple jump.”
This was Jeremy McGrath, seven-time Supercross Champion and member of the Greaves Motorsports Monster Energy/Toyota Off-Road teammate, making sense of it all a few minutes after Johnny Greaves – the most prolific driver in close-course racing history – had lofted his 3,800-pound PRO 2WD truck over a mind boggling gap of 301-feet to set a new World Record.
It all began on blustery Friday morning, December 18, 2009, when the Greaves Team, working out of a drafty barn nestled on McGrath’s ranch on the FAR outskirts of San Diego, California, switched out a 500 gear to a 488 gear to conjure up enough top-end out of the 351 cubic inch, 800-horsepower Toyota NASCAR Camping World Truck Series engine to push the beastly Toyota towards the heavens – and more importantly – over a 180-foot gap and towards the 300-foot mark.
It didn’t come easy for Greaves and the Toyota as variables such as wheel spin, revolutions per minute, traction, wind and peak horsepower at the peak time (at the peak of the jump) all had to be factored into a certain ad hoc calculus and tweaked with before the Wisconsin native finally, after several attempts, came up aces high at the 301 mark.
Source: Johnny Greaves sets a World Record by jumping a TORC PRO 2WD Truck 301 feet
It all began on blustery Friday morning, December 18, 2009, when the Greaves Team, working out of a drafty barn nestled on McGrath’s ranch on the FAR outskirts of San Diego, California, switched out a 500 gear to a 488 gear to conjure up enough top-end out of the 351 cubic inch, 800-horsepower Toyota NASCAR Camping World Truck Series engine to push the beastly Toyota towards the heavens – and more importantly – over a 180-foot gap and towards the 300-foot mark.
It didn’t come easy for Greaves and the Toyota as variables such as wheel spin, revolutions per minute, traction, wind and peak horsepower at the peak time (at the peak of the jump) all had to be factored into a certain ad hoc calculus and tweaked with before the Wisconsin native finally, after several attempts, came up aces high at the 301 mark.
Source: Johnny Greaves sets a World Record by jumping a TORC PRO 2WD Truck 301 feet
