Ford Sets New World Record For Largest Flag Pulled By A Moving Vehicle

In November 2016, a Ford F-450 reclaimed the Guinness World Record for Largest Flag Pulled by a Moving Vehicle, towing a 4,124-square-foot American flag around Homestead-Miami Speedway to beat a Chevrolet Silverado’s earlier record by nearly 1,000 square feet. The Super Duty’s 440-horsepower, 925-lb-ft Power Stroke diesel V-8 got credit for the pull, which stretched well past the minimum distance required to set the new mark. It’s proof that truck bragging rights aren’t only settled at the drag strip.

Ford has just beaten the record that was set by Chevrolet seven weeks ago. The stunt was for a Guinness World Record named ‘Largest Banner Flown By A Vehicle” and was done on November 19. To qualify, a vehicle will tow a flag or banner and it needs to be completely off the ground. The size of the flag and length off the ground are both factors to be able to set the world record.

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Two truck brands spent the better part of a year trying to one-up each other with the same absurd stunt, driving in a circle while dragging an enormous American flag behind them without letting it touch the ground. It sounds like the kind of thing that should end in a torn flag and a lawsuit. Instead it produced an actual Guinness World Record, broken, re-broken, and defended with genuine engineering behind the spectacle. The flag itself weighed more than most cars on the road, and towing it required more than just horsepower, it required a truck that wouldn’t buckle under the drag.

Reclaiming the Record From Chevy

Ford’s F-450 reclaimed the Guinness World Record for Largest Flag Pulled by a Moving Vehicle in November 2016, towing a 4,124-square-foot American flag around Homestead-Miami Speedway’s 1.5-mile oval for four full laps. The flag was nearly 1,000 square feet larger than the one a Chevrolet Silverado 2500 had pulled at Texas Motor Speedway earlier that same year to set the previous record, a back-and-forth that turned a marketing stunt into an actual rivalry between the two truck makers.

The Engine Behind the Stunt

Ford credited the F-450’s 6.7-liter Power Stroke turbo-diesel V-8 for the feat, an engine rated at 440 horsepower and 925 lb-ft of torque in that generation of Super Duty. To break the record, the truck had to travel beyond the 328-foot mark set by the previous attempt without letting the massive flag touch the ground, Ford’s crew stretched that to 360 feet before completing all four laps, giving the truck margin to spare.

A Rivalry Built for the Cameras

Both automakers treated the record attempts as made-for-video marketing moments rather than quiet engineering tests, filming the runs from multiple angles and promoting them heavily afterward, proof that even a stunt this far outside normal truck marketing still needed a genuine engineering case behind the towing capacity and stability to pull it off safely at speed.

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