25 Records That Will Absolutely Never Be Broken
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Part of the fun of major records is seeing them get beaten. This is how we determine who our best athletes and performers really are.
Some records, though, are never ever going to be broken. Which ones are we talking about? Thanks to some expert digging we did on the net, you're about to find out.
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Jacque Villeneuve, Michael Schumacher and Heinz Harald Frentzen set the exact same time in qualifying in the 1997 European Grand Prix. To the THOUSANDTH of a second.-u/DaBi5cu1t
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The longest professional tennis match of all time: John Isner vs Nicolas Mahut at Wimbledon 2010. It lasted 11 hours 5 minutes, spanning 3 days of play, with a final score of 6-4, 3-6, 6-7, 7-6, 70-68
It was already nearly twice as long as the previous record holder. The reason it will likely never be broken is that every professional tournament except for one (Roland-Garros) now has tiebreaker rules that limit the number of games that can be played in final sets. Although it’s hypothetically possible at RG, clay court tennis is not at all conducive to the serve-and-volley style of play that led to the insanely long 5th set of Isner-Mahut.-u/MSims2992
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The current record for the Cannonball Run, a drive from NY to LA, is about 25.5 hours. It was set in May of 2020, and the drivers were able to make use of the lack of traffic due to the pandemic to break the record. Barring another similar world-changing event, traffic conditions will probably never be what they were when that record was set.-u/SexyNeanderthal
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When I was a kid, we had a Guinness book of records lying around that we liked to browse in while bored. There was this one guy in it who held a record for most bikes eaten. No, you did read that right. He ground up a bike and slowly consumed it over I don't know how long a time.
The record was accompanied by a note that no further records of bike eating would be accepted, as it was deemed too dangerous.-u/Picajosan
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Cy Young pitched 749 complete games in his career.
The current active pitcher with the most complete games in his career is Adam Wainwright, who has pitched for 17 years and has 27 complete games total. Pitchers just don’t pitch the whole game anymore, and Young’s record will never come close to being touched.-u/VictorBlimpmuscle
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Luigi Fagioli won the 1951 French Grand Prix at the age of 53 years, 22 days - making him the oldest F1 winner in history. Given that F1 drivers rarely continue driving past 40 anymore, this record looks pretty safe.-u/GrumpyCatStevens
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John Isner hit 113 aces in his 70-68 match at Wimbledon played over 3 days. That record will never be broken because Wimbledon changed their rules so they can’t play that many games ever again! -u/deleted
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Aleksandr Karelin, Greco-Roman wrestler. 887 wins to 2 losses. Entered 9 world championships and never lost a bout in them.-u/minorboozer
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Wade Boggs drank 107 beers on a domestic flight. RIP Wade Boggs. (He's alive)-u/sherifchrismannix
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The current unlimited record is 511.11 km/h (317.59 mph), achieved by Australian Ken Warby in the Spirit of Australia in 1978.
It hasn’t been broken to this day due to how dangerous it is to go at those sort of speeds on the surface and plenty of people have passed away trying.-u/Sliiated
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Hans Heyer’s DNQ, DNF, and DSQ in one F1 race. (Did not qualify, did not finish and disqualified)
He did not qualify because he was too slow, started anyway by sneaking his car in. Only when his gearbox failed after 10 laps was it realised that Heyer should not have been competing, whereupon he was disqualified.-u/Comrade_476
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Glenn Hall played 502 consecutive games as an NHL goalie. Zero chance that will ever be broken, goalies these days rarely play more than 3/4 of an 82-game season, let alone numerous seasons without a night off.-u/ButtholeQuiver
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Rickey Henderson's All-Time Stolen base record. The #2 guy on the list, Lou Brock, only has about 2/3 as many stolen bases as Henderson (1406 vs 938). Not only that, but the active leader, Dee Gordon, is 1,000 shy of Henderson.-u/slytherinprolly
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Roger Federer reached the semi-finals of 23 consecutive Grand Slam tournaments. The man holds many records, but this one is probably the most significant, because it's the best indication of his regularity at the highest level.-u/Nedelka03
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Max Verstappen being the youngest F1 driver to hit the grid, at age 17. He is the reason why there's now a minimum age requirement for F1 and their license. -u/flacocaradeperro
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The Voyager Golden record is now in deep space and is extremely unlikely to ever come across anything which could break it before the end of humanity.-u/invaliddrum
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