Hennessey: Venom F5 Revolution can beat the AMG One’s Nürburgring record

In late 2022, Mercedes announced that it had beaten the production car lap record at the Nürburgring, with Maro Engel setting a blisteringly quick time of 6m 35.183s in the F1-engined 1,049bhp AMG One.

And yet, Hennessey reckons the Venom F5 Revolution – the track-focussed iteration of the 1,817bhp Texan hypercar – can go even quicker. 'Murica!

“We're in this mode of straight-line testing and leading up to Vmax currently. The acceleration testing is geared towards that and the 0-400-0kph record is also on the list, but maybe going into next year we’ll switch gears,” says John Hennessey as TG asks about future lap records in the Revolution. Remember, it recently took the Circuit of the Americas (COTA) lap record by half a second from the Czinger 21C.

“We'd like to get the Laguna Seca lap record and the Virginia International Raceway record. They’re both on the list, and the Nürburgring too,” says John. “We may try to do some testing in Germany next year. Our chief engineer Brian Jones (once of Multimatic) led engineering on the AMG One and that’s the current record holder there.

“I won’t give you the number that Brian thinks the F5 can run, but it’s a bit faster than the current record. But again, just from a timing standpoint and being on a different continent, that would move further down on the list after we get past Vmax.”

So it might not happen for a while yet, but reckon Hennessey can snatch that ‘Ring record?