[Theodores]

There needs to be a real race where everyone sticks to the speed limits with penalty times applied for every second above the speed limit, with proper driver breaks and everything else truckers obey. Simple rule set. Of course journey times would be nearer 50 than 28 hours but there could be other prizes for fuel efficiency, luck at the lights and so on.

Also, there is the suitability of the car, I imagine a Tesla would be better than Rolls Royce luxury if you need to be in the thing for 50 hours.

Stock cars with speed limits may not sound like fun but it would be accessible. Maybe the 'golf ball run' where you have to take a set of golf clubs across the country to tee off into both oceans in record time could be the notional goal of such an event. It would also give an excuse for some faux golfing style in the fashion department.

Incidentally, in 1933 the petrol record was around today's EV time.