Toyo Tires has just unveiled the newest Recoil video from BJ Baldwin today, Recoil 4, taking viewers on a 7-minute thrill ride through the streets of Havana, Cuba.
Baldwin tries to meet his race team on the opposite side of the island after an all-night dominos game, and along the way Baldwin launches his 850-horsepower Trophy Truck 191 feet down what is hailed as the longest residential jump. Nitro Circus star and off-road racer Andy Bell jumped to the other side of the camera to help direct this video, and he looked to push Baldwin to pursue jumps in his truck typically reserved for dirt bikes.
“We scouted the stunts believing if we could pull it off on a motorcycle, we could challenge BJ’s manhood enough that he would try them,” said Bell. “BJ pushed that truck beyond what anyone else would dream of doing and it resulted in some of the most intense action Cuba has seen in decades.”
Aside from the 191-foot jump, Baldwin also tackles a 110-foot jump across a downed bridge and a triple-step-down stair gap with a 20-foot vertical drop in Old Havana.
“It’s one thing to rip across desert terrain in Baja; it’s a completely other beast to fly through the streets of Havana at 100 mph,” Baldwin said. “There’s simply no discreet way to launch a million dollar, 6,000 pound trophy truck down a residential street that typically is reserved for vintage 1950’s era sedans. We blew the locals’ minds. They had no clue a truck could fly.”
Recoil 4 was shot over the course of five days, and it was all made possible by the support of local government officials and sponsors Toyo Tires, Monster Energy, Rigid Industries and King Shocks.
Photos: Larry Chen
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