Hypercar Hits 331 MPH On Nevada Highway

[Bouncer]

"Fastest Flying Mile on a Public Road" at 313.12 mph

"Fastest Flying Kilometer on a Public Road" at 321.35 mph

"Highest Speed Achieved on a Public Road" at 331.15 mph

Webb, who piloted the hypercar, said, "there was definitely more in there. And with better conditions, I know we could have gone faster."

He said, "as I approached 331 mph, the Tuatara climbed almost 20 mph within the last five seconds."

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[Marshall1019]

That's awesome. I think I may have been on this road before, very cool.

[Scrumhalf]

Crazy. I can't even imagine what that feels like. I did 120 down the freeway once and it scares the hell out of me. Things were happening so fast, I couldn't have reacted in time if anything would have gone wrong.

[rado]

Wow... I've hit 181mph and that's fucking an amazing feeling... I can only imagine what that feels like

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[Bouncer]

I think the top speed at this years Indianapolis 500 was 235 mph. So for a road car to do 331 is insane.

[rado]

I think the top speed at this years Indianapolis 500 was 235 mph. So for a road car to do 331 is insane.

I thought for sure Indy cars did a lot more than that.... At the world superbike this year a few of them were doing 225-235 mph and that's on a motorcycle

[rado]

So for a car to be doing that yes that's definitely extraordinary considering the weight but it won't be surprising that you will have motorcycles doing 300 mph

[Bouncer]

"Fastest Flying Mile on a Public Road" at 313.12 mph

"Fastest Flying Kilometer on a Public Road" at 321.35 mph

"Highest Speed Achieved on a Public Road" at 331.15 mph

Webb, who piloted the hypercar, said, "there was definitely more in there. And with better conditions, I know we could have gone faster."

He said, "as I approached 331 mph, the Tuatara climbed almost 20 mph within the last five seconds."

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they got caught bullshitting... lol

America's Shelby Supercars has more or less abandoned its world's fastest car claim after eagle-eyed YouTubers pointed out a number of embarrassing, possibly costly discrepancies in its video of the SSC Tuatara making a claimed 316-mph two-way run.

Two weeks ago, the SSC team was over the moon, having utterly destroyed all existing speed records for production hypercars on a stretch of highway outside Las Vegas. The claimed speeds, read off a high-precision Dewetron GPS measurement device, were no incremental step.

The previous record, set on the same piece of road by the Koenigsegg Agera in 2017, was 277.87 mph (447.19 km/h). Bugatti's claimed 300-mph-breaking Chiron run was never going to count; it was only done in one direction, for starters, when all these kinds of records demand two-way measurement to cancel out the effects of wind assistance. So when the Tuatara hit claimed speeds as high as 331.15 mph (532.93 km/h), it was the equivalent of almost a 20 percent leap and an absolutely shocking figure.

The company then released the following video in support of its claims, and that's where things started out on the well-worn path to FUBAR.

For starters – and you can see it easily for yourself at around the 0:25-mark above – the GPS speed data appears to show the car doing more than 20 mph (32 km/h) before it even starts moving. But when YouTubers Shmee150 and Misha Charoudin, among many others, started digging further, things got a whole lot weirder.

Since the Tuatara run was done on the same bit of road as the Agera record, it's possible to put those videos side by side and clearly see, thanks to landmarks passed, that the Agera is going faster. Analysis of the SSC engine and gearbox ratios appeared to suggest it was literally incapable of doing the claimed top speed in sixth gear, by a long shot. Measuring the distance between known landmarks and measuring the Tuatara's time between them produced an average speed lower than the GPS data was reading at any point over that distance.

And things continued to pile up; in another 360-degree video, a helicopter can clearly be seen out the right side passenger window keeping pace with the car up to around 1:17, when the car is approaching 200 mph (322 km/h). This helicopter, an Airbus H125, has a fast cruise speed of 162 mph (260 km/h) – and a "never exceed speed" of 178 mph (287 km/h) that no sane pilot would get too close to, even without a big stabilized camera hanging off the front of the aircraft. There's no way that chopper could keep up with a car doing 200 mph.

https://newatlas.com/automotive/ssc-...d-controversy/

[rado]

Lmao

[Mr I]

Wow

[Mr I]

Apparently it’s Shelby son trying to impress, he has no experience. The koinseg or however it’s spelt is the fastest and my friends boss, he works close protection for him, has two