3. TIL that an Alabama bloodhound joined a half marathon after her owner let her ou...

TIL that an Alabama bloodhound joined a half marathon after her owner let her out to go pee. She ran the entire 13.1 miles and finished 7th.

I don't even think we know how good of a driver he is.

Both Top Gear Stigs could put cars around the top gear track faster than most guest F1 drivers. Which means at least on that their home track they were competitive with some of the best drivers in the world.

I seriously doubt the American would be even close, from what I understand he's a NASCAR driver and wasn't even a successful one at that.
Oh wait I just googled it and it seems he won some races in some Nascar like truck racing thing I've never even heard of.

I mean the first white stig (Ben Collins) wasn't a world champion F1 driver or anything, but he was a solid middle of the pack driver in a bunch of different (and really quite difficult) disciplines and events, finished 12th (4th in his class) in a Le Mans and was an F1 test driver.

I mean I've no real idea how you compare that to driving around a loop in a souped up truck but honestly I think I'd place anyone who could get on a Le Mans team and manage to finish above pretty much anything NASCAR related except maybe the top tier racers.

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