Back in March a man named Richard Holt made a 250.1-mph run at a one-mile event in the Goliad Industrial Air Park in Texas. He was piloting a 1,000-plus-hp twin-turbocharged Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera tuned by Underground Racing and John Reed Racing. A video of his feat can be viewed below.
Hoffman Motorsports and Heffner Performance could not let Mr. Holt have all the fun so they brought out their twin-turbo Ford GT to the Exotics Car Rally in Miami, Florida, this past weekend. The bright yellow supercar set a standing-mile record of 266.93 mph. The Veyron-eclipsing speed was due to the car's rumored output of 1,900 hp achieved by stuffing the engine with 41 pounds of boost. Unfortunately, some people say that the GT’s record-setting number, which is much higher than the car’s last top run of 249.9 mph in Texas, may be skewed due to faulty timing equipment.
[via Dragtimes and Jalopnik and WorldCarFans]
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ashraf
Tuesday, April 27, 2010 12:03 PM
It seems to me that the run appeared to be legit. There were many cars onsite that had in car GPS that could verify the information. Their earlier run was pretty good considering there was mention that they were unable to get into 5th gear. If that was the case and they were able to rectify the gear issue... seems plausible that they would easily beat their earlier run.Either way - that car seemed to be flying. I guess we will have to wait for the Texas mile. Although I am not sure why someone would doubt the run? Records are made to be broken and people are always gunning for you when you set one...
Rob Cook
Monday, May 03, 2010 1:36 AM
Nie Video, But i won't believe that its 1000 HP, its too much,
Mack
Friday, May 21, 2010 11:56 AM
lol........it would be good to have race with Plane
xenon
Monday, June 07, 2010 1:19 AM
Line them up head to head. The GT will win again. The boost in that car is unreal.