Here are nine of the wildest car stunts you'll ever see

With Evel Knievel as an idol, it’s no surprise that we could fill this entire list with just Travis Pastrana stunts. Perhaps his best on four wheels was on New Year’s Eve in 2009, when Pastrana flung his Subaru Impreza STI rally car off the pier in Long Beach while doing 91mph. After flying for 269ft he landed on a floating barge and set a new world record.

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Top Gear USA host Tanner Foust performed this record-breaking stunt in front of a packed crowd at the Indy 500, presumably just to give himself even more pressure. Back in 2011, he drove down a 10 storey high, life-sized orange track before soaring for 101 metres and smashing the world record.

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Thought 101m was far? In 2016, Bryce Menzies jumped his 888bhp Pro2 truck for 116m over a New Mexico ghost town and into the world record books. He wanted to go even further, but a warm up jump ahead of another attempt went wrong and Menzies ended up with a broken shoulder.

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Back in 2013, Guerlain Chicherit became the first person to complete an unassisted backflip in a car. ‘Unassisted’ meant that it was done using a static ramp, while the car was a modified Mini Countryman with long travel suspension that landed with a bang onto a giant ramp of snow.

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The distance record that Dan Runte set while launching the Bigfoot 14 monster truck over a Boeing 727 in 1999 may well have been broken since, but we still think a 62m jump using a relatively small dirt ramp is one of the greatest things we’ve ever seen.

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In 2013 Adrian ‘Wildman’ Cenni became the first person to land a 360° barrel roll in his Pro4 truck. He took off from ground level and hit an initial ramp to get airborne, before a second ramp sent him into a spin. A man well deserving of his nickname... pure madness.

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In late 2014, Lotus F1 needed a way to publicise its new deal with computer storage company EMC. The logical method it came up with? Jumping one of its Renault Magnum transport trucks (with trailer) over the top of a moving F1 car. Martin Ivanov in the F1 car – TG salutes you.

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That previous Lotus stunt actually gave Mike Ryan a world record as he jumped the lorry 25 metres through the air, but it was smashed in 2015 when American madman Gregg Godfrey gracefully glided a truck cab for 51m between dirt ramps in Salt Lake City.

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In Beirut on 3 September 2017, Naji Bou Hassan started doing some donuts in an E30 BMW 3 Series. He then stepped out of that car while it was still spinning and jumped into another E30. He set that one off too, then did the same in three other cars so that all five were donuting at the same time.

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