Koenigsegg Resurrects Its Doomed Le Mans Project as a 1,600HP Road Car

Before Koenigsegg was setting production car speed records, Christian von Koenigsegg truly had his heart set on endurance racing. The company actually built its GT1 contender back in 2007. It was a featherweight machine that actually showed real pace in testing. Then the FIA rewrote the homologation rules, the program died overnight, and the sole example spent the next 15 years as nothing more than a sad footnote in the brand’s history.

But now, at Monterey Car Week, Koenigsegg has finally given that ghost a proper afterlife with the new CCGT1.

A quick history lesson for the uninitiated. The original CCGT weighed roughly 1,000 kg, packed a naturally aspirated 5.0-liter V8, and was lapping competitively in testing despite giving up power to the class leaders.

But before it could enter a single race, the FIA jacked GT1’s production requirements from 20 cars to 350 per year. For a boutique Swedish outfit, that was a death sentence. There was only one car ever built, and unfortunately, it never saw a grid.

The CCGT1 rights that wrong on top of the CC850’s bones. Its twin-turbo 5.0-liter V8 makes 1,280 horsepower on pump gas and a ridiculous 1,600 horsepower on E85, with all of the power being routed through the brand’s 9-speed Light Speed Transmission.

The new Koenigsegg Sequential Shifter pairs a big mechanical race lever with an honest-to-goodness clutch pedal for takeoff and ignition-cut clutchless shifts, just like a proper GT1 machine. And if you’re still looking to bang through the gear the old fashioned way, the CC850’s six-speed gated manual is on the options list.

Nearly every panel besides the doors and removable roof was reshaped for aero, netting 800 kg (1,764 pounds) of downforce at 155 mph via an active rear wing with 30 degrees of adjustment. The bodywork itself is woven from Ghost Fibre, a crystal-white carbon that traces back to 2009’s Trevita.

And for the first time ever, Koenigsegg is offering a factory track package. Roll cage, fire suppression, air jacks, race rubber – the works. And the best part? It’s all installable (and removable) by any certified dealer. So when it’s fully equipped, this becomes the fastest circuit car Koenigsegg has ever produced.

Koenigsegg is building just 70 examples of the CCGT1, and every single one was allocated before the public unveiling. Pricing hasn’t been disclosed, though if you have to ask, you were never on the list anyway.

2026 Koenigsegg CCGT1

Koenigsegg transforms the CC850 into the CCGT1, a road-legal, 1,600HP tribute to its stillborn 2007 GT1 racer, and all 70 examples sold before anyone else got a look.