Hennessey Delivers Fastest Christmas Tree Run Ever with 2026 Corvette ZR1

• 1,064 bhp 2026 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 sets new festive benchmark with fastest ever road-legal Christmas tree run
• Hennessey’s 5½-foot Christmas tree with 200+ lights brings holiday-season record home to Texas with triple-digit speed
• Seventh ‘Hennessey Christmas Tree Run’ demonstrates the fun side of Hennessey’s relentless pursuit for performance

Sealy, Texas (December 22, 2025) – Hennessey, the Texas-based hypercar manufacturer and high-performance vehicle creator, has set a new festive record taking a 5½-foot (1.7 meter) Christmas tree to 196 mph on the roof of the new 2026 1,064 bhp Chevrolet C8 Corvette ZR1. Set on the runway at Chase Field, Beeville, Texas the Hennessey achievement is believed to be the fastest ever speed achieved by road-legal car carrying a Christmas tree.

The record speed was set with the ZR1-mounted tree adorned with more than 200 festive lights and holiday ribbon. This is the seventh Hennessey Christmas Tree Run and the third piloted by professional driver Spencer Geswein. This season’s speed record surpassed the company’s own 192 mph record set in 2022 with a Hennessey Venom 1000 Ford Mustang.

Alex Roys, company President: “Hennessey’s Christmas Tree Run has evolved from a crazy little holiday stunt into one of the most fun traditions. Every year we strap a tree to something a little wilder and a little faster. It’s the kind of event that reminds you why this whole thing started… because cars should be loud, fun, and just a little bit unhinged. Running the 2026 Corvette ZR1 was a perfect finale to another amazing year for the Hennessey team.”

This year’s Christmas Tree Run starred the new 2026 Corvette ZR1, which is widely regarded as one of the most compelling performance vehicles on the market today. Chevrolet’s flagship model is powered by a twin-turbocharged 5.5-liter flat-plane crank V8 engine that produces 1,064 hp and 828 lb-ft of torque.

Specialist driver Spencer Geswein, no stranger to high-speed antics (having previously piloted Hennessey’s Venom 1000 Mustang GT500 to 192 mph in 2022 and the 1,817 bhp Venom F5 to over 270 MPH in 2022 testing), once again delivered a flawless run, topping out just shy of 200 mph. Incidentally, the Hennessey team also tested the fully optioned C8 ZR1 ZTK track pack car without the tree and managed 206 mph before running out of room on the runway.

The ‘Christmas Tree Run’ has often been a hallmark of Hennessey’s year-end celebrations, with each pairing of car and tree raising the bar for speed and spectacle. Starting in 2017 with a Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Widebody, Hennessey set the tree-topped speed at 174 mph, each run has pushed to improve on past records with this season’s 194 mph ZR1 time dethroning the 192 mph Venom 1000 Mustang from 2022.

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