Today is also not a good day for science: the fastest car in the world, the 257 mph (413.6 km/h) 9ff GT9-R, was totalled during a high speed UK testing session.
This comes after the Pagani C9 test mule was severely damaged in a crash in Germany, while it was out testing on the Autobahn. The car left the site on the back of a platform vehicle, unfortunately, in much more than one piece.
Getting back to today’s story, we have to admit that there is one positive side: the driver did not suffer injuries from the crash, at least not severe ones. If you are wondering how it happened, here it is: the GT9-R was traveling at high speed on the Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground race track, when the driver hit the brakes, lost control (the cause remain unknown) and BAAANG - the 0/20 unit of the GT9-R (this is the only one built so far) was killed.
But let’s think at the car the way it would have wanted us to: the hypercar started out in life as a Porsche 911. After 9ff played with it, it used a 4.0 liter turbocharged mid-mounted six cylinder powerplant that delivered 1120 hp and 1050 Nm of torque. This meant that car could reach 186 mph in 17.16 seconds and achieve a SSC Ultimate Aero TT-blowing top speed of 257 mph. The vehicle tipped the scale at 1326 kg and could be ordered with a six-speed manual or a six-speed sequential gearbox. The car was on sale for $1 million.
It looks like this is the Holy Week for one-off hypercars too...
This comes after the Pagani C9 test mule was severely damaged in a crash in Germany, while it was out testing on the Autobahn. The car left the site on the back of a platform vehicle, unfortunately, in much more than one piece.
Getting back to today’s story, we have to admit that there is one positive side: the driver did not suffer injuries from the crash, at least not severe ones. If you are wondering how it happened, here it is: the GT9-R was traveling at high speed on the Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground race track, when the driver hit the brakes, lost control (the cause remain unknown) and BAAANG - the 0/20 unit of the GT9-R (this is the only one built so far) was killed.
But let’s think at the car the way it would have wanted us to: the hypercar started out in life as a Porsche 911. After 9ff played with it, it used a 4.0 liter turbocharged mid-mounted six cylinder powerplant that delivered 1120 hp and 1050 Nm of torque. This meant that car could reach 186 mph in 17.16 seconds and achieve a SSC Ultimate Aero TT-blowing top speed of 257 mph. The vehicle tipped the scale at 1326 kg and could be ordered with a six-speed manual or a six-speed sequential gearbox. The car was on sale for $1 million.
It looks like this is the Holy Week for one-off hypercars too...
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