Watch a truck jump 166ft through the air

Late last year, the Lotus F1 team jumped one of their trucks over an F1 car, and recorded a leap of 83ft and 7in.

Today, we learn that a man in America has jumped a semi truck 166ft through the air, to post something he’s claiming as a new world record for a truck jump.

Though the good folks at Guinness World Records have yet to ratify this as an official, um, record, it doesn’t really matter. Because it’s a truck jumping 166ft through the air.

The driver in question was Gregg Godfrey who has form in this sphere of human endeavour: in November 2008 Gregg set the longest ramp jump by a truck cab in Salt Lake City, with a jump of 50ft 6in.

At this year’s annual Evel Knievel Day in Butte, Montana, however, Gregg outdid himself. “I meant to only go 140,” he noted on his Instagram page.

Watch the video. Feel free to involuntarily squeak with joy.