Michael Andretti has added two Guinness World Records and it was LITERALLY a piece of cake!

He’s an IndyCar champion but this is the first time he has driven a car (mostly) made of cake at the hair-blowing speed of 17.08 mph!  He went 349.81 feet to set both top speed and distance-covered records for edible vehicles.

Now we say *mostly* made of cake because it started with a wheeled, steerable aluminum tray with 139 vanilla sheet cakes stacked on top in the shape of Andretti’s championship car. Over 90 percent of the 669-pound creation was edible as required by the rules.

It was created by Black Sheep Custom Cakes along with a second car designed to look like Andretti’s father Mario‘s 1978 Formula One championship-winning Lotus so that he had something to race against down the ramp of the new parking garage at Washington state’s Ilani Casino Resort. They dreamed up this stunt to promote the casino.

How do you celebrate after that?  Eat part of your car.

 

 

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