Enough with the perfectly preened lawns and spotless supercars - time for some real speed
You wouldn’t be alone in finding all the pomp and pageantry of Monterey Car Week - or certainly the bits that are best known - a little stifling. So here’s something to rouse you from your stupor, proof that exciting stuff does happen on four wheels in California during August. Koenigsegg has set a new lap record for homologated production cars at Laguna Seca with a Jesko Attack. And, as might be expected, it’s flippin fast.
So the definition of homologated road car is really being stretched to breaking point, yes, though the numbers don’t lie. Nothing else even comes close to that pair that can also be used on the public highway: a fullyStill, consider the Jesko’s spec and it’s not entirely surprising. Attack is the track focused version of the 1600hp V8 hypercar , with up to a tonne of downforce and hollow carbon wheels.
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