But it also speaks of a confidence born from Hennessey’s deeply impressive team, which includes Ben Johnson who was previously Motorsports Technical Director for Pratt Miller – America's most successful sports car team and a nine-time 24 Hours of Le Mans class winner. Hennessey long-since earned its place as a hypercar maker with the brilliant, (very) loosely Lotus-based Venom GT which was revealed in 2010. This was followed by the bespoke, all-carbon Venom F5. Speaking to company founder, John Hennessey, ahead of Monterey Car Week, he explains that Blackbird recognises a mood change in the hypercar market: ‘There’s a bit of fatigue, I think. Could we have built a more powerful car than the F5 Evolution?