In the end, Roy never attempted the 25-minute Manhattan Rendez-vous. But he claims to have raced a 27-minute "practice run." He proudly estimates that he hit top speeds of 144 mph [through downtown New York]...
Most accidents require multiple simultaneous factors: bad weather, a tire blow out, a bad night's sleep, a crying baby in the back seat, a deer in the road. The driver of any one car has control of only a fraction of these. By operating at high speed, you add another factor and decrease your capacity to respond to the others. It increases the risk of an accident by at least an order of magnitude, if not more, and commensurately increases risk of death to the driver and to innocents. The whole thing reeks of douchebagerry.
Christ, what an asshole.