📍 ‘Some racing cars retire. Others never even make it to the starting grid.’
In 2007, Koenigsegg built the CCGT to take on Le Mans. Then the regulations changed and the dream disappeared before the car contested a single race.
Nearly 20 years later, Christian von Koenigsegg has settled the matter.
♔ The result?
The road-legal CCGT1 — 1,600bhp and unfinished business finally finished.
♔ Full Story
▪️There is something wonderfully stubborn about refusing to accept that a story is over.
▪️Back in 2007, Koenigsegg created the CCGT for GT1 racing. It weighed roughly 1,000kg, used a naturally aspirated V8 and showed genuine promise in testing.
▪️Then came the paperwork.
▪️The problem: GT1 homologation requirements changed, making the programme commercially impossible for a tiny Swedish manufacturer. One CCGT was built. It never raced.
▪️The comeback: The new CCGT1 takes the CC850 as its foundation and turns that abandoned racing idea into a road-legal hypercar.
▪️The numbers: Its 5.0-litre twin-turbo V8 produces 1,280bhp on conventional fuel and a faintly preposterous 1,600bhp on E85.
▪️The theatre: Koenigsegg’s nine-speed Light Speed Transmission gains a racing-style sequential shift system and clutch pedal.
A six-speed gated manual is available for those who believe 1,600bhp requires more personal involvement, not less.
Aerodynamics generate up to 800kg of downforce at 155mph.
An optional removable track package adds a roll cage, air jacks, and fire-suppression equipment.
▪️Just 70 CCGT1s will be made.
▪️Naturally, all were allocated before the public unveiling.
♔ Bottom line: Le Mans never got its Koenigsegg in 2007.
📍 ‘Nearly two decades later, the road has inherited something considerably more outrageous.’
