seams like it had a few more mph in her.
It’s probably a strategy whereby they don’t want to blow out the old record but beat it just enough that VW has to go back out now and spend the time effort to beat them.
Driver Brian Smith only had about 2.6 miles to complete his run because it took nearly a kilometer (0.62 miles) to slow the car to 70 mph. “It was still pulling. If we could run on an eight-mile oval, we could go faster than that,”
Even if the hypercar had gone faster, Guinness would not have certified it as a record. To qualify, a car must complete two runs in opposite directions with the average speed serving as the record time. The Venom was only able to complete one because that is all NASA would allow, and even that took two years of negotiations according to founder John Hennessey. It still wouldn’t matter, though, because Guinness now stipulates that 30 examples are required to certify a car as a “production vehicle.” Hennessey is only building 29 Venoms and has sold 11.
the company says that its next goal is to begin setting lap records with it at tracks around the world
I have to assume the reason they are not going to build the 30 is some additional hoops they would have to jump through as a production vehicle?