Skoda teams up with star athletes to catch a new world record
Olympian archer and martial arts coach set world record for distance that a fired arrow is caught by hand from a moving car.
Skoda teamed up with a pair of star athletes to get its hands on a new world record.
An arrow fired by Austrian Olympian archer Laurence Baldauff reached a blistering top speed of 134mph on its journey, covering 188ft before martial arts coach Markus Haas caught it – while leaning out of the sunroof of a moving Octavia vRS.
The distance between Baldauff and the target was 230ft, and because the 27-inch arrow was travelling in an arc pattern rather than a straight line, it meant that Haas only had a 98ft window of opportunity and just half a second to snatch success out of thin air.
Catch it he did though, setting a Guinness World Record for the furthest an arrow has been fired and caught by hand from a moving car.
Staged as a homage to the Czech firm’s winged arrow logo, the stunt at the Zeltweg air base in Austria took four months to plan and required Skoda’s most potent machine.
With its 2.0-litre turbocharged petrol engine producing 242bhp and 370Nm of torque, the Octavia vRS 245 estate can go from 0-60mph in 6.5 seconds and reach a top speed of 175mph.
