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Here's What Koenigsegg Learned From Its Record 278 MPH Nevada Speed Run

Here’s more from Koenigsegg speaking to Driving:

“We were just about finished building his car, and he said ‘I want to see how fast this goes.’ Well, we don’t have a track long enough to do that; I told him any test track is too short, you’d have to shut down a whole road. And he managed to do that.

“So when we heard he had achieved that, we thought we’d better help out, because it’s uncharted territory, and it’s dangerous. We’ve never even driven that fast, so we wanted to be part of it, analyze it, and make sure it was done as safely as possible and that we got as much data out of it as possible.”

Koenigsegg said the company has since been able to introduce a new aerodynamic setting that tunes the ride height, wing angle, shock absorbers and other active aerodynamic features of the car for driving at the limit based on the real-world information it now has. You know, just in case you ever find yourself nearing 280 mph again.

Koenigsegg also said the 1,160 horsepower 5.0-liter twin-turbo V8 Agera RS could go faster with a change to the rev-limiter after the factory driver behind the record-setting car reached it on one of the runs. The car hit a reported max speed of 284.3 mph.

(Jalopnik.com)