Route 160, the main road from Las Vegas to Death Valley, annually handles an average of 1.7 million tourists.
SR-160 between Tecopa and Sand Valley roads will close from 7 a.m. until 3 p.m. Nov. 4-5 while Swedish supercar maker Koenigsegg attempts to set the top speed for a production car. Traffic will be diverted for this event by NDOT. Roadside parking, cyclists and pedestrians will be prohibited.
Spring Mountain Motorsports Ranch will be hosting Koenigsegg to not only beat the current record of 268 mph from a production vehicle but to hold that record for the foreseeable future.
“The Swedish car company is a member of our club and this event will be costing them around $100,000 to shut down the highway and all the logistics, insurance and other things that went into this event,
We have received a temporary occupancy permit from the Nevada Department of Transportation to attempt a world speed record on a very straight section of highway, that is the main artery, connecting the rural community of Pahrump and Las Vegas together.”
There are two records that will be broken that day, the first being the 240 mph on an open public highway and the other being the 268 mph record for the overall top speed of a production car.
http://pvtimes.com/sports/swedish-car-company-coming-pahrump-break-speed-record#sthash.KNwIXZSJ.jGKhmriL.dpbs
When the semiretired internet entrepreneur bought the original Spring Mountain Motorsports Ranch in 2004, here in the desert town of Pahrump, Nev., it was a 2.2-mile racetrack with a couple of spectator tents and porta-potties.
By the end of 2017 or early 2018, he says, he’ll also have a 6-mile, off-road desert course for trucks and ATVs, a track for high-performance go-karts, and a zip line to the resort’s main clubhouse with a 160-foot drop.
Currently, the longest track is Germany’s Nürburgring, the legendary 13.1-mile circuit in Nürburg, near the Belgian border, which includes sections of public road and isn’t open for racing most of the year. When he’s finished, Morris will have at least 15 miles of private track just 45 minutes from the Las Vegas Strip.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-31/the-world-s-longest-racetrack-will-be-for-wealthy-racers
https://lasvegassun.com/news/2017/oct/26/new-land-speed-record-attempt-to-close-road-to-pah/
The 2017 Koenisegg Regera holds the distinction of being the fastest and most powerful production car ever manufactured.
According to Koenisegg, the Regera is “the King of the Road, as the fastest accelerating, most powerful production car ever.” It is very hard to argue with this claim, especially considering the twin-turbo 5.0-liter V-8 engine under the hood that is supported by three electric motors that create a combined power output of 1500 hp and 1475 lb-ft of torque!
https://speedvegas.com/en/world-of-speed/exotics/2017-koenigsegg-regera/388
3 weeks ago a Koenigsegg Agera RS managed to go from 0-249mph-0..... 5 seconds faster than the 0-249mph-0 time posted by the Bugatti Chiron only last month
https://www.topgear.com/car-news/pioneers/koenigsegg-agera-rs-smashes-bugattis-0-249mph-0-time
So they are going to close the only road between Las Vegas and Pahrump for 8 hours on a weekend so that some idiot can attempt to set a speed record. What idiot in NDOT approved this.
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