(If there were a standing record for a wheeled vehicle skittering atop water, this Jeep would have it and it would be on the salt RIGHT NOW resetting the damned thing) There are certain things that just don’t seem right or possible. Watching a truck skitter across the top of the water at full throttle, on the rev limiter, and hauling a who bunch of tail is one of those things. Note that we mentioned that they don’t “seem” right or possible because in this case the feat was most certainly possible and the 1,001 foot shot across the water at about 55 mph was completed by Icelandic driver Gudbjørn Grimsson. You will see Grimisson take his Nelson Racing Engines twin-turbo powered Formula Off Road truck and stand on the gas, letting the paddle tires do the work and keep things afloat.

There’s a cool interlude in the middle of this video when the cameramen are talking with Grimsson and asking him about what he just did. You can tell that he is still WAY up on the chip and when he answers a question telling someone that running across the water was akin to “multiple orgasms” you can pretty well understand how wild it must have been in the truck to look across the 1,001ft waterway, take a deep breath, and then go hammer down into the water.

We hope someone, someday is able to get a super slow-motion camera on a truck when it is doing something like this. It would be fascinating to see how much water the tires are actually scooping and how deeply they are “digging” into the H20. All we know is that it must be one hell of a feeling when you are half way across that deal and still have 500 feet to go!

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