Watch The Koenigsegg Jesko Smash A Laguna Seca Lap Record

Look, we don’t need to tell you that the Koenigsegg Jesko Attack is a fast car. For one, it’s got 1600bhp if you put eco-friendly biofuel in it, and it can produce 680kg of downforce. Also, when have you ever heard of Koenigsegg building a car that’s not push-your-eyeballs-directly-into-your-brain fast?

Still, it’s never a bad thing to remind ourselves of just what’s possible with modern hypercars – cars that, let’s not forget, can be bought and driven by anyone with a large amount of money that’s passed a frighteningly rudimentary test that involved clicking on a computer screen and pootling around a town in a Ford Fiesta diesel.

Here’s one such illustration. The Jesko Attack – the track-focused version of Koenigsegg’s latest hypercar – has just claimed the production car lap record at the legendary Laguna Seca circuit in California. Piloted by Koenigsegg test driver Markus Lundh, it fired its way around the topsy-turvy, 2.24-miles track in 1min 24.86secs.

That’s over half a second quicker than the previous record holder, the Czinger 21C – which recently claimed a significant production car record of its own. In terms of lap times, it also slots it in behind a current Porsche Carrera Cup car and ahead of an actual open wheel, wings-’n’-slicks USF2000 racer – although they were under race conditions, rather than on a nice, empty track.

What are you really meant to do with numbers like that, though? Without context, they’re meaningless. Luckily, Koenigsegg has released an onboard of the lap, meaning you can ride shotgun with Lundh as he wrestles the Jesko around the track, peering out of its visor-like windscreen.

It’s a properly physical lap, with the sheer strength of the Jesko’s brakes apparent every time Lundh jumps on the left pedal. Plus, because it’s Laguna Seca, we get to enjoy the heart-in-mouth moment as he launches into the abyss off the top of the Corkscrew.

Do lap records for production cars bear any real-life relevance whatsoever besides bragging rights? No. Do we care when they lead to such mightily impressive onboard footage? What do you think?