Bumpy ride for record breaker

Recruitment consultant Laura Byng, 28, from Southend, completed the 25-hour feat at the town’s Adventure Island fun park yesterday morning, having shaken off the boredom in the early hours with synchronised bumping displays with friends who came along to support.

“It was mostly enjoyable but when we got to 4am, it was freezing cold and there was nobody about, I thought ‘what am I doing’?” she said.

The existing record is held by Austrian Sebastian Bosch who went for a 24-hour spin in 2007. Miss Byng, who is hoping to compete in The Mongol rally later this year, beat this by an hour and must now wait for official confirmation that she has made it into the Guinness Book of World Records.