17 Feb 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Oulu, Finland -- Finland's four-time world rally champion Juha Kankkunen drove a Bentley Continental Supersports convertible at 205.48 mph (330.695 km/h) to set a new world speed record on ice.
The car was fitted with spiked Pirelli Sotto Zero winter tires and achieved the record over a 16-kilometer course on the frozen Baltic Sea off Finland on Tuesday (February 15), where the ice is 70 centimeters thick. Despite tricky conditions that included snowstorms and cross wind
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Press release from Bentley
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