It’s been more than two years since Hennessey launched the Venom F5 with the promise of breaking the 300 mph speed limit. However, top speed is still yet to come as the fastest hypercar we’ve ever seen happened almost a year ago when it hit 271.6 mph (437.1 km/h). Pushing the 1,817 horsepower engine to the max is still on the agenda, and efforts to dethrone the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport 300+ could be made within the next 12 months.
In an interview with Upper Equipment magazine, John Hennessey suggested a two-way run could be done on one of the new freeways currently under construction in Texas that the company calls home. Why hasn’t it happened yet? The tuner/hypercar maker says it is busy increasing production of the Venom F5 after assembling one car in 2020, two more in 2021, and 10 last year.
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Ideally, Hennessey needs “a five or seven mile stretch of flat, straight highway” and Florida’s Johnny Bohmer Proving Grounds where the Venom F5 hit 271.6 mph last year isn’t long enough to really get the most out of the hypercar. The roads in Nevada where the Koenigsegg Agera RS averaged 277.87 mph (446.97 km/h) and hit 284.55 mph (457.94 km/h) in late 2017 don’t seem wide and flat enough because ” bad gusts of wind will make it difficult for the driver.”
The unrestricted Bugatti Chiron Super Sport went the faster of the two, reaching 304.77 mph (490.48 km/h) in 2019 at the Volkswagen Group test track at Ehra-Lessien in Lower Saxony. However, the Molsheim brand only goes one way, and John Hennessey tells us PTS he intended for Venom F5 to go both ways.
Meanwhile, Hennessey this week unveiled the Venom F5 Revolution which serves as a track-focused coupe derivative with more downforce. The new version follows last year’s unveiling of the Venom F5 Roadster, which, much like the standard coupe, has been advertised with a top speed of over 300 mph (483 km/h).
