Underground Racing Lamborghini Gallardo shatters 250 MPH barrier in Texas Mile

by Chris Shunk

The Texas Mile sounds like a totally kick ass event. You get one mile on flat, straight airport runway to go as fast as possible, with a half mile to bring your vehicle to a halt. This year's big winner was Richard Holt; the lucky owner of a fire-breathing, street legal twin turbo Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera. The 1,000 horsepower super bull turned in an official time of 250.1 miles per hour, or fast enough to make even the most ardent of speed demons a bit leery. To make matters a bit more interesting, Holt drove his twin-turbo Gallardo for the first time ever during his first run on the track.

Hit the jump to watch Holt's pavement-scorching run. If you thought the Gallardo Superleggera looks fast standing still, wait to you see it passing the 250 mark. And Holt reportedly managed his Texas Mile record breaking run with the air conditioning on and the radio blasting. We can't think of a much better Sunday afternoon.

Crazy people create real-life third-person driving apparatus

by Zach Bowman

At some point during the last seven years, Rooster Teeth went from making hilarious videos using Halo multiplayer and a little voice-over action to taking on questions Myth Busters-style. What kind of questions? Try, "What would it be like to drive a real-live F-150 in third-person?" The crew set up a fairly ingenious rig using a Canon 5d Mk II, an HDMI cable and a 15-inch monitor. Then they blacked out the entire green house and had two guinea pigs test subjects run a cone course. Did we mention they had to fight their way to the truck through two "Yakuza" armed with foam baseball bats?

The results are somewhat predictable, but hilarious none the less. Turns out it's just as hard to drive a real vehicle in the third person as it is in Grand Theft Auto. Hit the jump to see the video for yourself, though be warned, there's some NSFW elements, including a little language and a big blow-up doll.