That’s two world records for the Texas-based tuning outfit, Hennessey Performance Engineering.
One for the world's fastest sports car, and now one for the world's fastest open top sports car.
Following yesterday’s teaser for a world record-beating car, it was revealed that Hennessey’s Venom GT Spyder has set a new world record as the fastest open-top sports car in the world with a top speed clocked at 427.4km/h and verified by Racelogic technical director, Jim Lau.
Hennessey wanted to celebrate the company’s 25th anniversary in some style and bravado, which it has clearly done, with beating a record previously held by the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport Vitesse by nearly 18km/h.
“2016 marks the 25th anniversary of Hennessey Performance”, said company founder, John Hennessey. “I thought that this would be a special way to celebrate 25 years of making fast cars faster. I’ve wanted to test the top speed of our Venom GT Spyder, without the roof, ever since our coupe ran 270.4 mph on the Space Shuttle landing runway at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in 2014. This was a great way to validate the technical excellence of our car which includes high-speed stability with an open roof.”
The new Venom GT Spyder is powered by an uprated version of the 7.0-litre twin-turbocharged V8 engine that outputs a monumental 1082kW of power and 1745Nm of torque.
Going forward, Hennessey plans to create a very limited number (3 total) of “World Record Edition” Venom GT Spyders to go along with the coupe version with the uprated engine. They will be limited to a handful, however, as their attention and resources take a shift to their next car, the Venom F5.
