Damn… that’s fast

Well the new season of the television show Top Gear has started over in the UK, and jaws are already dropping in awe. For people who haven’t seen the show, Top Gear is one of the few reasons to care about t.v. anymore. It’s a good show, maybe even the best one out there. Through its twelve previous seasons one segment has always been a staple of the show, the power lap times. This is no different in the thirteenth and current season. Many supercars have risen to the top and subsequently been defeated by lighter, more powerful cars, but I have a feeling the new champion will be at the top for some time to come. This car has beaten out the 1:17.1 time held by the Apollo Gumpert S (the ugliest supercar in the world according to the hosts) by an astounding seven seconds with a time of 1:10.7! The car in question is none other than the Ferrari FXX.

The Ferrari FXX is basically a slightly more civilized version of a formula one car, boasting a 6.3 liter V12 developing 800bhp. Only 30 of these have been manufactured and the only way to own one was to have Ferrari come to YOU. While the car may cost $1.9 million, at least Ferrari offers racing lessons to the owners right? Owners will need them too as the car is a track car, i.e. not street legal. This brings up a predicament because up to this point Top Gear only allowed times of production and street legal cars to stay on the list of power lap times. Will the FXX be allowed to stay on top? I don’t know the answer but one thing is certain, it’s an awe-inspiring car.