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Hennessey Special Vehicles, the Texas-based hypercar manufacturer, has set a new production car lap record at the Circuit of The Americas (COTA) with a blistering 2: lap of the racetrack. For the record-setting lap, independent, third-party timing was conducted by RACELOGIC using their VBOX satellite telemetry and data logging systems. The Venom F5 Revolution that completed the fastest production car lap ran on street legal tires, used regular Shell pump ethanol, and was filled with standard Pennzoil fluids. Right from launch, Hennessey set out to build ‘the Decathlete of Hypercars’. The objective for the 1,817 bhp twin-turbocharged V8 hypercar was not only to surpass 300 mph, but to also be a highly capable track car. Driven by the manufacturer’s in-house test driver, David Donohue, the Venom F5 demonstrated the extent of its capability pulling up to G in the corners and G under braking. This extreme performance was achieved on street-legal MICHELIN Pil
