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25 12 2009

NEWS: MotoRecord in Guinness World Records 2010 Book (English)

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The Mountain Trial (Motorcycle) can be proud to belong to the very selected Guinness World Records holders and now appears (with pictures) in the annual Guinness World Records Book from 2010 (on page 96). The record imply for “the highest altitude reached autonomosly by a motorcycle”. The Book was published in more than 100 countries and 25 languages and distributed annually to more than 3 million people around the globe.

 

An HONDA 4RTL 250 LIMITED motorcycle have been driven by a international team and had officially broken a six year old record set by a Chinese group, who rode up to 6113 m of Mt Everest on the13 May 2002 .

 
The volcano “Ojos del Salado” is located 1.100 Kms in the desert of Atacama at the North from Santiago, Capitol of Chile in the frontier of Chile and Argentina. It is the highest volcano in the world with 6.895 meters.The expeditionary team and their motorcycles must support the extreme conditions of the Volcano – temperatures below -25º C, few oxygen and winds in occasion of obout 100 Km/h.

 
The expedition with the support of HMDC, was followed by two independent witness demanded by the Guinness World Record institution that was taken according to the guidelines and the established norms of Environmental Protection (from left to right : Giovanni Sanguedolce - Argentina/Italy, Sergio Baracatt - HMDC, German Hess - Chile/Switzerland , Atsushi Nemoto -HMDC, Johann Janko -Chile/Austria and Roland Hess – Chile /Switzerland).

 

After a new engineering in the injection with the support of HONDA MOTOR COMPANY JAPAN, the group plan to achieve a better mark soon in a new “High Altitude Trial” Expedition.

 

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