Gregg Godfrey is a lot of things, including a stuntman. This is how I imagine a hypothetical Monday morning conversation between him and a neighbor went:
“Hey Gregg, how you doing?”
“Hey, pretty good. How was the weekend?”
“Great, I got some gardening in. You?”
“I drove a semi-truck 166 feet in the air.”
“…”
Godfrey is probably owning a lot of casual conversations right now, basically. He made the jump in Butte, Mont., on Friday as part of Evil Knievel Days, an event to commemorate the legacy of the late daredevil, and it surpasses his previous 2008 Guinness World Record of 50 feet.
Here’s another view:
And here it is in slow motion, in case you want more “Ahhh, why?! Why?!” feelings to take over your body:
Gregg was supposed to jump over a semi-truck with the semi-truck, but Evel Knievel Days’ organizer Austin James said they couldn’t fit Evel Knievel’s extra-long “Red Hauler” into the space between the two dirt ramps.
So Gregg jumped his semi cab without the Red Hauler but still set a new record.
“He more than doubled that,” James said.
Two other records were set Friday night, including one by Godfrey’s nephew Tanner Godfrey, who jumped a utility terrain vehicle 202 feet in the air, shattering the previous 198-foot record. “Three world records in one night is kind of insane,” James told the Standard.
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Tanner Godfrey, who has been paraplegic since 18 following a motocross race accident, wrote on Instagram: “This jump was more than just to break a record for me. It was to show people that life will knock you down, and you can either stay down or fight your way back up.”
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