There's a new recordholder for the fastest production car.
The SSC Tuatara set the new land speed record of 316.11-mph while race car driver Oliver Webb was at the wheel.
The record was set on a seven-mile stretch of State Route 160 between Las Vegas and Pahrump, Nevada. It's the same stretch of highway where the old record of 277.9-mph was set in 2017.
Per Guinness Book Records rules, the speed is a two-way average with both runs within one hour of each other. it also has to be set on a public road using street tires, street fuel, and satellite tracking.
Two runs in the opposite directions set the record. They were performed within the span of an hour, with the car running E85 fuel and Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tires. One run recorded a top speed of 301.07 mph and the other reached 331.15 mph. The two speeds were averaged to 316.11. Two record-sanctioned witnesses were on site for verification of the runs and procedures, and the runs were tracked by an average of 15 satellites.
The record-holding car is owned by Philadelphia native Larry Caplin.
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