The Thrill of Speed: A Descent into the World of High-Speed Racing

As we embarked on our latest adventure, we found ourselves at the starting line for Round Two, with the engine revving at an astonishing 175 miles per hour. The goal was to navigate through a treacherous terrain marked by towering buttes and tumbleweeds, requiring precision and skill to overcome. However, the challenging landscape proved to be more than just a test of speed; it was also a trial by fire for our vehicle.

The starting line's proximity to the rocky terrain made every move feel like a gamble. The driver expertly navigated through the gap, taking aim at a small target marked by a series of round buttes. But despite our best efforts, the car seemed to be floating over the surface, making it difficult to maintain traction. A harsh reminder of this was when we encountered a patch of weeds, forcing the driver to make an emergency brake application.

As we began Round Two, we realized that the air conditioning system had been inadvertently left on, putting our vehicle at risk of overheating. With temperatures soaring into the triple digits, every move felt like a gamble. The driver pushed the car to its limits, shifting gears with precision and finesse as we climbed towards 178 miles per hour – a speed that would have made even the most seasoned racing drivers take notice.

The breathtaking landscape unfolded before us like a canvas of endless dunes, stretching out into the distance. But our focus remained fixed on the horizon, driven by a primal urge to conquer this unforgiving terrain. We had set a new benchmark for ourselves – one that would be remembered for years to come as we pushed the limits of human endurance and machine capabilities.

As we crossed into Nevada's vast expanse, known as "The Loneliest Road in America," our senses were overwhelmed by an otherworldly silence. The only sound was the gentle hum of the engine and the soft whoosh of the tires on the asphalt. We felt like pioneers, blazing a trail through uncharted territory.

The drive from the dry lake bed to Las Vegas was a stark contrast to the previous hour's adventure. Gone were the dusty canyons and rocky outcroppings; instead, we found ourselves cruising down a perfectly paved road, the speed limit a gentle 25 miles per hour. It was almost surreal, like stepping into a parallel universe where time stood still.

As we pulled into the Aria Resort and Casino, the stark contrast between our desert adventure and the opulence of this luxurious oasis was a jarring reminder that some things are truly timeless. We were greeted by a stunning view, courtesy of F-Spot's cameras, which had captured every moment of our journey in crystal-clear detail.

For us, however, it wasn't just about capturing moments; it was about experiencing life to the fullest – even if that means pushing the limits of sanity and mechanical endurance. So as we stepped into our room, surrounded by the trappings of modern luxury, we couldn't help but wonder what the future held for us.

As I began to ruminate on the events of the day, a thought struck me: when the hybrid car does arrive, it will be an event worthy of note. Perhaps one that will challenge our assumptions about speed and agility. But for now, as I gazed out into the neon-lit expanse of Las Vegas, I knew that we had created something truly special – a testament to human ingenuity and the unbridled joy of high-speed racing.

In the end, it was clear that Round Two would be remembered for years to come. But whether our 458 Spider will ever return to the dry lake bed remains to be seen. For now, as I reflect on this incredible journey, I am left with one certainty: when it comes to speed, there's no substitute for raw, unadulterated adrenaline.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: engive me the worm give me the worm oh my goodness but we gotta go we gotta go we got a 500 mile road trip today come on dude we're taking the ferrari 458 to great basin national park las vegas nevada and monterey california i don't know what burlapper is up to but based off a quick analysis the floor doctor's been torn apart and i would reckon he has no idea what he's doing you have the sawzall right there you got the table saw over there and you have a long board sitting underneath the truck anyways ladies and gentlemen welcome back to the channel and welcome back to the vlog so we are driving the ferrari 458 off to las vegas nevada today via the dry lake bed because of course i want to test the top speed on the ferrari my personal record on the lake bed is 173 in the ca corvette and that was absolutely terrifying now a quick wikipedia search this car will do 210 miles an hour we're not we're not even gonna come close to that today we only have two and a half miles of runway and we're in the dirt so the car is gonna sink down hunker down but uh i mean i'm gonna try my best wow that was really lame i deserve a cold start now the plan is to do about 500 miles to las vegas today then we're headed off to monterey tomorrow it's gonna be like a four or five day road trip in a ferrari should be interesting i'm still trying to figure out what color arapa ferrari this blue or red look incredible i don't want to send any subliminal messages but this last color wouldn't look so okay i know i'm a loser i said i wouldn't wrap a purple i want to wrap a purple i'm not going to but i want to miss you so much be good for black okay you're the best proof there ever was before we get on the road to vegas a quick message from today's video sponsor i'm excited to announce today's video has been sponsored by nordvpn nordvpn is one of the single best ways to secure your online identity and protect your internet traffic a vpn which stands for virtual 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i'm not going to say it somebody buy it please buy i couldn't help with somebody breaks breaks such a nice day here you tough boys we're headed two hours that way to the west desert to the middle of absolute nowhere utah this is not the bonneville sulphides if you know we're headed keep your mouth shut okay this is my secret spot don't tell anybody we should go that way we're gonna go this way but we definitely should be going whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa i'm pretty sure the guys who engineered this road didn't design it for a ferrari i think that right there says it best that is a representation of my very very near future we probably shouldn't have brought the ferrari here i need the front and lift uh uh uh uh okay so i'm kind of sort of exaggerating but at the same time i'm kind of sort of not we're going nine miles an hour this was a dumb idea do you ever wake up and realize you're an idiot that happens to me nearly every single day and just like that we have arrived here to a highly undisclosed location somewhere in america boys we're just out here chasing views on views i'm kind of sort of getting kind of nervous 173 in the c8 corvette was terrifying i'm hoping to eclipse out here in the ferrari 458 it's mid-summer though it's 100 degrees i feel like it hasn't rained out here in forever and the clay feels softer than it did with the ca corvette i'm not making excuses i mean i'm going to plant my foot never doubt never lift full scent but at the same time we'll kind of sort of see i wish i could convey to you guys how in the middle of nowhere we are like 100 miles that direction there's nothing a hundred miles that way there's nothing 100 miles that way there's nothing like if anything happens we're kind of sort of on our own now before we pursue top speed glory i want to give you guys a couple data points ca corvette 173 toyota super 163 audi r8 155 focus rs 142 and the jeep gladiator i think was like 98 miles an hour something terrible i'm not sure so we're trying to set the new mark in the 458 we got the 4.5 liter v8 536 horsepower this car has the highest top speed the seo corvette acceleration wise would just destroy this car we're already very very dirty we're very very dusty please wish me luck in the comments below here we go boys we're headed that direction to the start line obviously just doing some reconnaissance making sure there's nothing unexpected out here on the desert floor let's see what we can do real quick so we have about two and a half miles that's an easy hundred miles an hour but i don't know if you guys can tell like the whole car is just shaking and baking the surface is not super even it's a hundred and one degrees out right now we're gonna pop it into race mode i am genuinely nervous right now like the surface is so uneven 175 miles an hour that's the goal obviously i'm not going to go crazy if i don't feel comfortable like i'm tapping out because this is serious business if you're a kid and you're if you're anybody if you're an adult if you're a kid if you're a senior citizen and you're watching today's video never try this at home or well i mean you know what i mean here don't try it here the speedo's down here that is 100 miles an hour at 200 miles an hour you cover one football field every single second that is 125 footage to the floor that's 131. we are flying right now it's 151. 155 that is 160 miles an hour okay oh my gosh oh my gosh 161 baby we are shaking and baking 165. come on baby 168 170 171 172 173 174 175 i'm off i'm on the brakes oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh oh geez i did not take the right direction i was going off in no man's land that is 175 the seal on the ferrari is not very good there is dust in here like crazy 175 that was terra i did not take the right line right there i was like oh geez okay and on that bombshell we're gonna do round two we're back here at the start line for round two that was 175 miles an hour we're gonna let the engine cool down let the tires cool down just a little bit here's the issue though start line's right here so we need to proceed through that gap right there you got the little round buttes over there you have all the tumbleweeds over there we have to hit that like perfectly dead center on the last run i was over there in the tumbleweeds and so i had i had to hit the brakes early the problem is the frame of reference is so difficult out here and the car is just kind of sort of floating over the surface you don't want to make any jerky movements so it sounds easy in theory but we want to hit that mark right now right somewhere in there i don't know if you guys can hear that um we were gonna do round two oh maybe we're good i guess we're good okay we're still gonna do round two i just realized on round number one we had the air conditioning on so we're gonna have to shut that off and hopefully we don't melt we'll see come on baby bring it back to 155. that is 160 miles an hour we're almost into seventh gear come on baby let's go four five eight oh geez we got a little weeds right there 166 167 168 171 172 173 174 175 175 that is 176 177 178 okay we're off we're off we're off gravel oh geez oh my gosh brakes brakes brakes brakes oh my goodness oh my goodness oh my goodness oh my goodness i saw 178 indicated or finished i am sweating for a few sleep i feel like a wet mop because the air conditioning is off come on baby come on turn on there you go there you go oh my gosh that was terrifying oh my goodness that was terrifying i wasn't planning to announce this right now i think we're officially retiring the dry lake bed never again are we going to bring a faster car than a 458 like 178 is that is stupid that was like we were just going like crazy we hit the breaking area 178 that was we might bring solar cars out here again but the pr has been set the pr has been established i'm not bringing the hyper car out here it's not gonna happen what an absolute monster though 178 miles an hour in the 458 spider i can tell you driving a ferrari off road isn't very fun geez i'm so stupid we have officially made it to nevada the loneliest road in america boys we'll send we got 12 miles of open runway welcome to the great basin of nevada 19th oh 20 000 right there 20 000 miles on the 4 5 8 spider and we still have about four hours to vegas the shady motel welcome to caliente oh it's a long drive boys it's a boring drive it's a nice jeep though here we go here we go oh oh oh i think we're good we're good boys i was gonna say full sin but we're just gonna chill because the speed limit is 25 miles an hour look at this road that is ridiculous 12 miles of perfectly paved tarmac i need to find the county sheriff here and have him close down the road when i get the hyper car that's ridiculous we have a blue shelby raptor right there that color is sick i love that i've rallied my ferrari harder than him today but i love the blue welcome here to fabulous las vegas nevada it is 106 degrees fahrenheit so yeah it's crazy to be here in vegas during the pandemic like it's not a complete ghost town but for 7 p.m it's pretty quiet welcome to the arya resort and casino we're looking for a couple v12s well boys i think we are in the right spot lambo jesus's lp 640 looks so sick okay so i should have brought the offender but i didn't alex's mercy log was much cooler than my 458 it's also much cleaner but you have to admit at least i did a better job parking maybe maybe check that out boys very very nice view here at the aria compliments of f-spot he's actually comp in my room isn't that right i'm pretty sure it is so boys we did 178 miles an hour in the 458 spider we're never going back we're never gonna well i said that and then as i was driving around today i was like when the hybrid car does arrive it would be pretty epic what do you think let me know in the comments below but as always i hope you guys enjoyed today's video if you did like squad be sure to smash that like button but just like that this vlog is over yougive me the worm give me the worm oh my goodness but we gotta go we gotta go we got a 500 mile road trip today come on dude we're taking the ferrari 458 to great basin national park las vegas nevada and monterey california i don't know what burlapper is up to but based off a quick analysis the floor doctor's been torn apart and i would reckon he has no idea what he's doing you have the sawzall right there you got the table saw over there and you have a long board sitting underneath the truck anyways ladies and gentlemen welcome back to the channel and welcome back to the vlog so we are driving the ferrari 458 off to las vegas nevada today via the dry lake bed because of course i want to test the top speed on the ferrari my personal record on the lake bed is 173 in the ca corvette and that was absolutely terrifying now a quick wikipedia search this car will do 210 miles an hour we're not we're not even gonna come close to that today we only have two and a half miles of runway and we're in the dirt so the car is gonna sink down hunker down but uh i mean i'm gonna try my best wow that was really lame i deserve a cold start now the plan is to do about 500 miles to las vegas today then we're headed off to monterey tomorrow it's gonna be like a four or five day road trip in a ferrari should be interesting i'm still trying to figure out what color arapa ferrari this blue or red look incredible i don't want to send any subliminal messages but this last color wouldn't look so okay i know i'm a loser i said i wouldn't wrap a purple i want to wrap a purple i'm not going to but i want to miss you so much be good for black okay you're the best proof there ever was before we get on the road to vegas a quick message from today's video sponsor i'm excited to announce today's video has been sponsored by nordvpn nordvpn is one of the single best ways to secure your online identity and protect your internet traffic a vpn which stands for virtual private network encrypts your internet traffic from one location to another making your information untrackable especially when you're on a public wi-fi like at a hotel an airport or a coffee shop nordvpn can connect up to six devices simultaneously including your cell phone and their security suite actually acts as an ad blocker they don't do any data logging and they use double data encryption to ensure that the user remains completely anonymous and check this out nordvpn even allows you to access entertainment platforms like netflix from anywhere in the entire world even in china nordvpn has super fast servers with over 5500 located in 60 countries around the world they have 24 7 support and they provide a 30-day money-back guarantee all you have to do is check out the link below to nordvpn.com for 70 off voice 70 off that equates to 3.49 a month you can also simply use my coupon code the strad man but check out the link below nordvpn.com the stratband nope i'm not going to say it i'm not going to say it somebody buy it please buy i couldn't help with somebody breaks breaks such a nice day here you tough boys we're headed two hours that way to the west desert to the middle of absolute nowhere utah this is not the bonneville sulphides if you know we're headed keep your mouth shut okay this is my secret spot don't tell anybody we should go that way we're gonna go this way but we definitely should be going whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa i'm pretty sure the guys who engineered this road didn't design it for a ferrari i think that right there says it best that is a representation of my very very near future we probably shouldn't have brought the ferrari here i need the front and lift uh uh uh uh okay so i'm kind of sort of exaggerating but at the same time i'm kind of sort of not we're going nine miles an hour this was a dumb idea do you ever wake up and realize you're an idiot that happens to me nearly every single day and just like that we have arrived here to a highly undisclosed location somewhere in america boys we're just out here chasing views on views i'm kind of sort of getting kind of nervous 173 in the c8 corvette was terrifying i'm hoping to eclipse out here in the ferrari 458 it's mid-summer though it's 100 degrees i feel like it hasn't rained out here in forever and the clay feels softer than it did with the ca corvette i'm not making excuses i mean i'm going to plant my foot never doubt never lift full scent but at the same time we'll kind of sort of see i wish i could convey to you guys how in the middle of nowhere we are like 100 miles that direction there's nothing a hundred miles that way there's nothing 100 miles that way there's nothing like if anything happens we're kind of sort of on our own now before we pursue top speed glory i want to give you guys a couple data points ca corvette 173 toyota super 163 audi r8 155 focus rs 142 and the jeep gladiator i think was like 98 miles an hour something terrible i'm not sure so we're trying to set the new mark in the 458 we got the 4.5 liter v8 536 horsepower this car has the highest top speed the seo corvette acceleration wise would just destroy this car we're already very very dirty we're very very dusty please wish me luck in the comments below here we go boys we're headed that direction to the start line obviously just doing some reconnaissance making sure there's nothing unexpected out here on the desert floor let's see what we can do real quick so we have about two and a half miles that's an easy hundred miles an hour but i don't know if you guys can tell like the whole car is just shaking and baking the surface is not super even it's a hundred and one degrees out right now we're gonna pop it into race mode i am genuinely nervous right now like the surface is so uneven 175 miles an hour that's the goal obviously i'm not going to go crazy if i don't feel comfortable like i'm tapping out because this is serious business if you're a kid and you're if you're anybody if you're an adult if you're a kid if you're a senior citizen and you're watching today's video never try this at home or well i mean you know what i mean here don't try it here the speedo's down here that is 100 miles an hour at 200 miles an hour you cover one football field every single second that is 125 footage to the floor that's 131. we are flying right now it's 151. 155 that is 160 miles an hour okay oh my gosh oh my gosh 161 baby we are shaking and baking 165. come on baby 168 170 171 172 173 174 175 i'm off i'm on the brakes oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh oh geez i did not take the right direction i was going off in no man's land that is 175 the seal on the ferrari is not very good there is dust in here like crazy 175 that was terra i did not take the right line right there i was like oh geez okay and on that bombshell we're gonna do round two we're back here at the start line for round two that was 175 miles an hour we're gonna let the engine cool down let the tires cool down just a little bit here's the issue though start line's right here so we need to proceed through that gap right there you got the little round buttes over there you have all the tumbleweeds over there we have to hit that like perfectly dead center on the last run i was over there in the tumbleweeds and so i had i had to hit the brakes early the problem is the frame of reference is so difficult out here and the car is just kind of sort of floating over the surface you don't want to make any jerky movements so it sounds easy in theory but we want to hit that mark right now right somewhere in there i don't know if you guys can hear that um we were gonna do round two oh maybe we're good i guess we're good okay we're still gonna do round two i just realized on round number one we had the air conditioning on so we're gonna have to shut that off and hopefully we don't melt we'll see come on baby bring it back to 155. that is 160 miles an hour we're almost into seventh gear come on baby let's go four five eight oh geez we got a little weeds right there 166 167 168 171 172 173 174 175 175 that is 176 177 178 okay we're off we're off we're off gravel oh geez oh my gosh brakes brakes brakes brakes oh my goodness oh my goodness oh my goodness oh my goodness i saw 178 indicated or finished i am sweating for a few sleep i feel like a wet mop because the air conditioning is off come on baby come on turn on there you go there you go oh my gosh that was terrifying oh my goodness that was terrifying i wasn't planning to announce this right now i think we're officially retiring the dry lake bed never again are we going to bring a faster car than a 458 like 178 is that is stupid that was like we were just going like crazy we hit the breaking area 178 that was we might bring solar cars out here again but the pr has been set the pr has been established i'm not bringing the hyper car out here it's not gonna happen what an absolute monster though 178 miles an hour in the 458 spider i can tell you driving a ferrari off road isn't very fun geez i'm so stupid we have officially made it to nevada the loneliest road in america boys we'll send we got 12 miles of open runway welcome to the great basin of nevada 19th oh 20 000 right there 20 000 miles on the 4 5 8 spider and we still have about four hours to vegas the shady motel welcome to caliente oh it's a long drive boys it's a boring drive it's a nice jeep though here we go here we go oh oh oh i think we're good we're good boys i was gonna say full sin but we're just gonna chill because the speed limit is 25 miles an hour look at this road that is ridiculous 12 miles of perfectly paved tarmac i need to find the county sheriff here and have him close down the road when i get the hyper car that's ridiculous we have a blue shelby raptor right there that color is sick i love that i've rallied my ferrari harder than him today but i love the blue welcome here to fabulous las vegas nevada it is 106 degrees fahrenheit so yeah it's crazy to be here in vegas during the pandemic like it's not a complete ghost town but for 7 p.m it's pretty quiet welcome to the arya resort and casino we're looking for a couple v12s well boys i think we are in the right spot lambo jesus's lp 640 looks so sick okay so i should have brought the offender but i didn't alex's mercy log was much cooler than my 458 it's also much cleaner but you have to admit at least i did a better job parking maybe maybe check that out boys very very nice view here at the aria compliments of f-spot he's actually comp in my room isn't that right i'm pretty sure it is so boys we did 178 miles an hour in the 458 spider we're never going back we're never gonna well i said that and then as i was driving around today i was like when the hybrid car does arrive it would be pretty epic what do you think let me know in the comments below but as always i hope you guys enjoyed today's video if you did like squad be sure to smash that like button but just like that this vlog is over you\n"