Hennessey Venom F5 Revolution Sets New Lap Record 2:10.90 at ‘Home’ COTA Track

A lot is happening in America these last days of March – Jeep is busy going to Moab, Utah, for the 58th edition of the Easter Jeep Safari with four new concepts, Ford doing quarter-mile passes in the Mustang Super Cobra. The Jet 1800 Ford Performance electric car demonstrator, and Hennessey are running as fast as possible around COTA, among others.

We’ve already discussed the looks and features of the Jeep Low Down, Willys Dispatcher, High Top, and Vacationeer concept cars, and we also talked about the EV Mustang’s 7.759 seconds at 180.14 miles per hour at the National Winter Motor Show. Citizens. So, what’s left now is to see what made the Hennessey Venom F5 Revolution set the lap record at COTA.

Because they are both Texans, Hennessey counts the Circuit of the Americas as a ‘home’ race, meaning it could not allow the previous record holder, Czinger 21C, to get away with a time of 2:11.33 seconds, which is now 0.43 seconds slower than the performance achieved by the Hennessey Venom F5 Revolution.

More precisely, the hypercar lapped the COTA in 2:10.90 seconds and reached more than 193 mph (311 kph) on the fastest part of the track. Hennessey Special Vehicles, the Texas-based hypercar division of Hennessey Performance Engineering, has set a new road car lap record at the Circuit of The Americas (COTA), the world’s most famous 3.41-mile race.

If you don’t think the performance against the previous standard set by the Czinger C21 is impressive, Hennessey also revealed their new lap record is almost seven seconds faster than the previous McLaren P1 record (2:17.12)! The goal of the 1,817-hp twin-turbocharged 6.6-liter V8 hypercar remains to exceed 300 mph (483 kph). Still, for now, they are satisfied that their driver, former Le Mans class winner David Donohue, faced +1.59 Gs in the corner and -1.61 Gs under braking. For its performance, the supercar was equipped with Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 R Michelin Pilot Sport Cup tires, carbon ceramic discs, carbon ceramic discs, carbon ceramic discs and Michelin Pilot Sport Cup. ABS technology.

Donohue joined Hennessey last year as the company’s new Hypercar Test Driver – he is the 2023 Pikes Peak record holder with over three decades of racing experience, including wins at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the American Touring Car Championship North, and the Rolex 24 at Daytona. With this record lap, the company made sure there was no doubt about the achievement, and Racelogic performed an independent, third-party timing using VBox satellite telemetry and data logging systems.

Next comes the +300 mph V-max push – Hennessey has already achieved during the development of the Venom F5 a speed of more than 270 mph at the former NASA Landing Center at Cape Canaveral in Florida. Now, the main hurdle is finding “a runway or public road long enough straight to allow the 1,817 bhp twin-turbo V8 monster to accelerate in excess of 300 mph and return to zero safely.”