Hennessey Venom F5 Revolution Breaks COTA Record, The King Is Back!

The Texan hypercar won the Czinger 21C’s Circuit of the Americas by 0.43 seconds, hitting 193 mph on the fastest part of the track.

It wasn’t easy for Hennessey to learn that a rival luxury car company holds the top record at its local track, but the Texan company won’t be losing any more sleep over the matter. Hennessey has revealed today that it has broken the lap record at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin with its Venom F5 Revolution.

Wearing street-legal, but track-focused Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 R tires, the Revolution swept COTA in 2:10.90, beating the 2:11.33 time set by the previous record holder, the Czinger 21C, by 0.43 seconds. . And underlining just how much supercar technology has improved over the past decade, the F5 also proved to be around 7 seconds faster than McLaren’s famous P1 hybrid, which previously completed the 3.41 miles (5.5 km) course in 2 seconds :17.12.

The F5’s 1,817 hp (1,842 PS), 6.6-liter, twin-turbo V8 accelerated it to a top speed of 193 mph (311 kmh) on the fastest part of the track and the driver, former Le Mans class winner David Donohue, drove through experience. up to 1.59g of lateral force when cornering, and 1.61g when asking everything about the Brembo carbon ceramic brakes.

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The Revolution-spec Venom doesn’t get more power than the regular F5, but it does feature more chassis and aero tweaks that make it more capable on the track. Brian Jones, former AMG One chief engineer, and now employed full-time by Hennessey, oversaw the Revolution project, which added a full-width carbon rear wing, a larger splitter and rear diffuser, revised suspension tuning and upgrades for the cold on the Venom market. F5 coupe.

Hennessey says that although the regular company has sold out, a few build parts are still available for the Venom F5 Roadster and Revolution, and it must be hoped that COTA’s record-setting run will add a name or two to the order bank. But the company, based in Sealy, about 100 miles (160 km) from the track, will hope to shine even more later this year when it pushes the F5 past 300 mph (483 kmh).

The non-Revolution model achieved over 270 mph (435 kmh) during development at the former NASA Landing Center at Cape Canaveral in Florida, and the company is now looking for a suitable runway or public road with enough space to reach vmax the real one. – and we hope to beat the 304.8 mph (490.5 kmh) record set by Bugatti’s Chiron SuperSport 300+ in 2019.