Hennessey Venom GT clocks over 400km/h in private test run

Hennessey recently conducted a top speed run with the Venom GT and the car managed to hit 270.49mph (435.31km/h) on the space shuttle landing runway at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, U.S.A. However, the Hennessey Venom GT will not qualify for a Guinness record since it didn't do two runs, one in either direction.

An official Guinness record is established by doing an average of the top speeds achieved in two runs. Since the Venom GT did only one (as allowed by NASA), the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport is still the official top speed king for a production car.

Even if it did both runs and surpassed the Veyron Super Sport, the Venom GT still wouldn't have been the new record holder since in order to be eligible to receive the title, the car must be built in 30 units and Hennessey announced they will only make 29, with 11 of them already delivered.