Hennessey Performance hopes to set an international acceleration record this year and has all it takes to succeed, says John Hennessey. CarBuzz adds that the tuner’s ambitions stretch farther than a simple straight line record: the company has its sights set on America’s most famous racetracks.
The specific record Hennessey plans to smash is for going faster than 300 miles per hour (483 km/h) in a straight line. You will be justified to feel surprised. Bugatti claimed this record back in 2019 with its 1,600-horsepower Chiron Super Sport.
However, the Texas-based tuner disregards that record as less than convincing. Its main argument is that Bugatti only made a single run and failed to account for altitude changes, wind direction and speed, road surface condition etc. To get a more accurate result, at least two runs must be performed, one of them in the exact opposite direction to the other. The resulting average top speed must then be taken as the factual top speed.
According to John Hennessey, he has already assembled a team of experts and hired a pro driver looking to become the new world champion. What remains is to tune the Venom F5 hypercar for the race and settle on the destination for it. Rumor has it that the tuning company decided against the Kennedy Space Center runway due to its insufficient length and is now in negotiation with Texas authorities asking for a temporary shutdown of one of the state’s highways for the race.
Among other things, the professionals over at Hennessey claim their supercar is capable of confident handling at extreme accelerations. While not official, we’ve been hearing that the tuner plans to take its Venom F5 on a tour of sorts around the entire United States, racing on the various tracks and breaking records. At the moment, though, it looks like these rumors may remain just that for the time being.
