An electric Ford Mustang Mach-E has managed to travel 569 miles on a single charge to set a Guinness World Record.

A Ford Explorer has just become the first EV to circumnavigate the planet after completing a 30,000-km drive through 27 countries.

As the best athletes in the world go for gold in Tokyo it got us thinking about the Olympics of driving – so we dived into our archives to bring you winning drives for the Detour Olympics.

For most road trippers circumnavigating Australia would be a journey of months, maybe even years. John Mahoney did it less than a week. Non stop.

How many European countries can you drive through in a 24 hours? Simon Heptinstall once managed an even dozen.