Andy
02-25-2009, 10:37 PM
pobject width="506" height="311" class="left gawkerVideo embeddedVideo"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/89pGeGPcs0khl=enfs=1fmt=22"/paramparam name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/paramembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/89pGeGPcs0khl=enfs=1fmt=22" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="506" height="311" class="left gawkerVideo"/embed/objectGM's a href="http://jalopnik.com/tag/cadillac-cts_v/?id=5045020"John Heinricy/a retired, but hasn't disappeared just yet. He's now a consulting engineer for Hennessey and you can see him here taking the new a href="http://jalopnik.com/5127348/hennessey+tuned-corvette-zr700-makes-incredible-705-hp-717-lb+ft-of-torque"705-horsepower HRE ZR700/a for a couple of seriously hot laps./p pa class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged JOHN HEINRICY" title="Click here to read more posts tagged JOHN HEINRICY" href="http://jalopnik.com/tag/john-heinricy/"John Heinricy/a stepped down this past October from his position as Director of GM Performance Division, likely knowing that his group would be disbanded in the wake of the a href="http://jalopnik.com/tag/carpocalypse-now/"Carpocalypse/a. But all is not lost. Another performance guru with the same initials has brought him on as a consulting engineer to test the a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged CORVETTE ZR1" title="Click here to read more posts tagged CORVETTE ZR1" href="http://jalopnik.com/tag/corvette-zr1/"Corvette ZR1/a-based HPE ZR700. Should be fun considering this is the same guy who set the a href="http://jalopnik.com/390796/2009-cadillac-cts+v-lapping-the-nurburgring-in-record-time"fastest production sedan/a lap time in a a href="http://jalopnik.com/tag/%2Ajalopnik-reviews/?id=5043650"2009 Cadillac CTS-V/a on the famed Nurburgring Nordschleife./p pJohn Hennessey has gotten a bad wrap in recent times due to a supposed scandal involving a couple of his customers Dodge Vipers. The internet lit ablaze with this news, but here's proof that he's still considered to be one of the best in the business./p pMaybe it's time for another visit out to the a href="http://jalopnik.com/tag/dodge-viper/?id=398212"Lonestar Motor Park/a./p p[via a href="http://www.hennesseymotorsports.com/"Hennessey/a]/ppa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/zFNJn-NgU0FBFbOjtnLzeAaOWoI/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/zFNJn-NgU0FBFbOjtnLzeAaOWoI/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/jalopnik/full?a=aOFsyKqp"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/jalopnik/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/jalopnik/full?a=KvCAJgSp"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/jalopnik/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/jalopnik/full?a=Bh8tZWr0"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/jalopnik/full?i=Bh8tZWr0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/jalopnik/full?a=6XuWERMY"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/jalopnik/full?i=6XuWERMY" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/jalopnik/full/~4/8EGzQJ8wgQU" height="1" width="1"/
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