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I hadnt heard of the the Fred Ashmore fakery, but went down that 'rabbit hole' anyway and would you belive it, it brings you back to this topic... I shared the photos Fred and Arthur Ashmore sent me with Tommy Davies and Rob Pickup, two characters of some renown within Cannonball circles. Using reams of data, the pair had successfully defended Davies from charges leveled against him by the government of the U.K. regarding a spirited drive he and another friend had made from the northern tip of Scotland to the southernmost point in England in an alleged record attempt in 2017. They've also both participated in the C2C, and are familiar with the many variables peculiar to a nonstop high-speed drive across the U.S. https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a38916492/solo-cannonball-record-may-have-been-faked/ But yeah I think we can all agree that doing anything like 3000miles on yoiur own non stop against the clock is just plain idiotic.

I guess you haven't seen the solo records they do then. Driving solo for 3000 miles non stop for 30 or more so hours at triple digit speeds. One of the record runs hit 195mph on the highway. its crazy. From what I gathered I think there was a driver swap in the UK case so it would be 5 hours or less behind the wheel. The cultures are very different over there to here, however you can't condemn one with out the other. Having driven a lot in the US, mostly East Coast so not the open plains desert in the west, there's still a lot of traffic on the roads. Compare that to the M5 or M6 at 3am pretty much empty roads. Just look at the Collison rates of the US. Doing a 100mph here and there on the M6 in the dead of night cant be more dangerous than doing a 100mph in the middle of the day in the US having been driving for 20+ hours straight. Heck there's some who have done it non stop, as in had enough fuel on board to do it in one go. That's a bomb going down the road. There's no way you can defend this sort endeavour, its crazy. But just like bank heist there is something intriguing about it. For what its worth its believed the police got wind of it because it was reported to them by someone on the Piston heads forum. I hold no judgement on the lad. He was only 26 when he 'did' it. No one was hurt, apart from some detectives egos. He defended himself (Mind boggles) and was acquitted. Id like to have a pint with him and see how he is in person. It was clearly passion of his and maybe he did achieve his goal and has no regrets. Maybe he thinks now its stupid and agrees. @Dan_ZTTwhat's the Facebook group he's in? and what did he say exactly?

That's only true with mobile speed camera vans and handheld devices that use laser. HADEC, Gatso and Average speed cameras on the motorway don't use laser. They use a low frequency radar. A laser jammer cant help you with fixed cameras in this country. Laser Operators are trained to log error codes from their equipment and then hey presto you have a knock at the door, where they find the jammer and you literally go to prison for perverting the course of justice. (Google 'perverting the course of justice + laser') If the cameras were checked, as its implied, they would show any interference with that cam, as it would be logged, (these motorway cams are all linked up. there unbelievable pieces of kit) which in itself would be stronger evidence than a recorded speed to prove perverting the course of justice. Imagine evidence of interference of 105 cams all along the route at the right times on the night in question. Would be hard defend against that. Why bother stopping the cams going off if your running fake plates? The irony that a couple more traffic officers on patrol and he wouldn't have got south of Aberdeen...

The don't disclose the location of ANPR locations for 'National security' reasons. But even if they do at Crown Court there not designed for capturing speeding offences. Not calibrated etc so even if they could disclose the location in court I doubt it would be admissible. What if the times on the cameras were wrong etc etc. There not reliable enough to work out a time over distance calculation. The concentration to drive that fast for the long and not get caught or worst is unreal. I cant workout from the piston heads post if he drove the whole way or only to the refuel location. it implies he drove the whole 9:36 though.

Cant have been. ITV News said, and I quote, 'The prosecution alleged that Mr Davies must have been speeding but the court heard that none of the 105 speed cameras along the route had been triggered.' They obviously checked them for that to be said, all 105 of them (Jesus the work that went into this) A fake plate doesn't stop them going off, Plus that's a really easy charge to prove if the cam does go off and its a fake plate. The police must have had a number plate if they tracked it with ANPR hits. But no speed camera being triggered is where I come stuck in working out how it was done? No way you can slowdown for all those cameras, average or not and still maintain that sort of average. You would have to be doing 170+mph anywhere you can which would be many places.

Glad I'm not the only one who was looking this up. Always been of fan of the Cannonball and the runs across the states. For what its worth he popped up on Instagram with Arne Toman who holds the US Record from NY - LA. He obviously keeps the sort of company that do this sort of stuff. From my research looks as if they couldn't put him behind the wheel. The driver was in 'Doubt' not the time as the ANPR and GPS data all lined up to show 9:36. None of the speed cams went off so he must have messed with them somehow? (Any ideas?) . Bet the police were sick to the stomach with the verdict though.