The Circuit of the Americas was taken on by an American performance hero.
John Hennessey is known for having an insatiable penchant for the ultimate American performance, whether that means tuning, acquiring, or building from the ground up, some of the greatest American performance cars ever seen. In the automotive world, the Hennessey name has become synonymous with speed, power, and engineering prowess, and despite not being tuned, John Hennessey’s stock C8 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 now has a feather in its own cap.
Recently, Hennessey announced a partnership with racing legend David Donohue, with the two setting their sights together on achieving incredible records behind the wheel of Hennessey’s Venom F5 hypercar, but the new Corvette Z06 also took part in achieving racing success this past December, when Donohue took it to the Circuit of the Americas.
The car is equipped with Chevrolet’s Z07 performance package, which adds to the already-formidable Z06 track ready carbon fiber aero and carbon fiber wheels. While conditions were less than ideal and prevented the lap time from being even faster, Donohue managed to clock an incredible 2 minutes and 19.18 seconds, recorded through the on-board lap time recorder in the Corvette Z06.
This puts the car in the Austin, Texas circuit’s record books as the fastest Corvette Z06 at the track, and Hennessey filmed the entire lap for fans to experience both the performance prowess of the C8 Z06, and the driving skill of the legendary David Donohue, whose partnership with Hennessey has already proved fruitful. Watch the incredible lap below.
