Hennessey Venom F5 rockets to 250mph in full-bore F5 mode
After looking the Hennessey Venom F5 spit out flames at the dyno, the American tuner and automaker launched a brand new video that offers us a flavor of the F5’s propensity for velocity. As you could know, the Venom F5 is Hennessey’s 30th-anniversary present to itself and to 24 rich people fortunate sufficient to reap a construct slot.
In addition, Hennessey created the Venom F5 from the floor up to interrupt velocity records. And primarily based totally on Hennessey’s modern video, it appears the automobile is on its manner to chase down (and probably overtake) velocity demons just like the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport 300+ and the arguable SSC Tuatara.
Hennessey claims the video above isn’t an professional pinnacle-velocity run. Instead, the Venom F5 rocketed upwards to 250 mph for excessive-velocity balance testing, and it did it with F5 mode engaged. It did appearance quite solid at 250 mph, and we’re surprised how fast (or how brief it took) to attain 250 mph. If you’re now no longer aware, urgent F5 mode unlocks the Venom F5’s complete excessive-velocity potential.
That’s simply the end of the iceberg, though, due to the fact the Hennessey Venom F5 can move a great deal quicker than that. How fast? Hennessey claims a projected pinnacle velocity of 311 mph or 500 kph, and the video above is simply certainly considered one among many assessments for the crew to assess the hypercar’s dynamics and balance at ultra-excessive speeds.
The Venom F5 is a hypercar of epic proportions. Hennessey claims a scale back weight of below 3,000 pounds (1,360 kgs) because of a bespoke carbon-fiber bathtub and frame panels. It additionally takes place to have an all-new and fully-bespoke 6.6-liter twin-turbocharged V8 motor that Hennessey christened as “Fury,” a becoming call to an engine that pumps out 1,817 horsepower and 1,193 pound-ft of torque.
And because it weighs very little, the Venom F5 has a power-to-weight ratio of 1,298 horsepower in keeping with ton (1.forty three hp in keeping with kilo), permitting it to hurry from 0 to 60 mph in below 3 seconds and 0 to 124 mph in much less than 5 seconds. Fury attaches to a seven-velocity CIMA single-snatch automatic guide gearbox with nearer ratios for decrease gears and taller ones for the better gears.
Oh, and did we overlook to say Hennessey were given the F5 call from the best class of wind speeds withinside the Fujita twister depth scale? We reckon extra excessive-velocity films are coming soon, and the very last episode would possibly have some thing to do with the Venom F5 breaking the 311 mph pinnacle velocity barrier. This automobile method business, and so does its $2.1-million charge tag.
