Actor Idris Elba breaks speed record in a Bentley

[JamesATL]

Actor Idris Elba breaks speed record in a Bentley

dris Elba, star actor of the The Wire and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, went for a drive Sunday on a beach in Wales. In doing so, he broke a 90-year United Kingdom "flying mile" speed record.

In the "flying mile," a car's speed is timed between two points one mile apart from each other. Rather than starting from a dead stop, the driver is allowed to get up to speed before entering the timed zone. The test is run twice within an hour, once each in opposite directions.

Driving a Bentley Continental GT Speed, Elba averaged 180.4 miles per hour over the full mile and hit a top speed of 186.4 miles per hour as he shot past the second marker.

The two-door Bentley is powered by a 626 horsepower 12 cylinder engine and has a top speed of 206 miles per hour. The car Elba drove was a standard production car and was not modified for the test, according to Bentley.

The record run was done for a new Discovery Channel series, Idris Elba: No Limits, which will air in July.

The beach on which Elba drove, Pendine Sands in southern Wales, has historically been used for record speed runs. Its tightly packed sands provide a smooth open surface with plenty of space in which to safely reach high speeds.

The last flying mile record in the U.K. had been set in 1927 by motor racing journalist Sir Malcolm Campbell who flew past the second marker at 174.2 miles per hour in a specially built Napier-Campbell Blue Bird race car.

A few years later, he became the first person to drive a car at over 300 miles per hour, when he drove over the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah in a 2,500 horsepower car called the Bluebird in 1935.



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On top of negotiating for a part in the next Star Trek film, Pacific Rim star Idris Elba just happened to break a British land speed record in a Bentley Continental GT Speed recently. Elba hit 180.361 mph all for his upcoming Discovery Channel series Idris Elba: No Limits, which airs in July. All this has us wondering why he can't be the next James Bond.

 

[N*E*R*D]

congrats brotha

 

[bborn]

peace

Do that shit, Spring!
Biggup yaself DJ Idr


Caught a few eps of that car show he was in I think that the BBC network carried.

Malcolm Cambell's the dude Nas is talking about in that Henny commercial but I think he also died driving or trying to break another record if not mistaken.

 

[sammyjax]

some honkey gon break his ass tryna get out there and bust strings record. no way all of honkdom gon let that shit ride lol

good shit tho bruv

 

[mexico]

Livin' the dream.

I ain't mad.

 

[BIGFILL]

zzzzzzzuuuuurrrrrooooommmmmmm

good shit bruh

 

[bborn]

peace

Velocity & BBC networks carried it but not the domestic Discovery channel as I've never seen it up on there.

King of Speed


This shit should be on Thurs on Discovery

So I guess they'll spoonfed us with the "new" series in July dealing with this event.

 

[Race Harley]

Nice run but one wrong move and he would have ended up scattered across the strip in pieces.

 

[Day_Carver]

 

[KingAddies]

livin the life
If you can't pull top shelf with that trophy on your wall you need Hitch.

6 months before they stuff Jason Statham, Liam or one of the expendables in another car to Dane Cook his record away. Took 40 years to break the record now it's become a thing because a working star has done it.