Watch This Twin-Turbo Lamborghini Huracan Set the Half-Mile World Record at 259 MPH

From Road & Track

This post was originally published on August 29th, 2017, when the Lamborghini you see here went 256.99 mph, setting the record for fastest standing half-mile. The car has since broken that record with a speed of 259.67 mph. The post, which you can read below, has been updated to reflect this.

This car, a twin-turbo Lamborghini Huracan built by Underground Racing, smashed the half-mile world record earlier in August of last year at an airstrip in Indiana with a speed of 256.99 mph. That speed beat the next fastest recorded run-also set by an Underground Racing Huracan-by over 6 mph. It was then taken to another half-mile event held by Shift Sector last weekend where it beat its own record, laying down a speed of 259.67 mph.

This Huracan, driven by Gidi Chamdi, is reportedly equipped with a top-spec Underground Racing X Package, which includes a fully built twin-turbo engine capable of over 2200 horsepower on race gas, mated to a sequential transmission.

Here's the 259-mph run:

Watch the full YouTube video here.

Watch the full YouTube video here.

And the original 256-mph run:

Watch the full YouTube video here.

If this car can do 259 mph in just half a mile, there's no telling what'll do in a standing mile run. Early last year, a Ford GT went nearly 300 mph in a standing mile, just to give some perspective. Hopefully Underground Racing will take one of its cars out for a run sometime soon so we can compare.

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