Praga Bohema Crushes Pagani Huayra Roadster BC’s Spa Record

The Praga Bohema hypercar has unofficially obliterated the Spa-Francorchamps lap record for road-legal production cars, blasting around the Belgian circuit in a claimed 2 minutes 21.420 seconds on standard road tires. That’s more than 1.5 seconds quicker than the Pagani Huayra Roadster BC’s 2019 benchmark of 2:23.081, set during an official track session. Praga’s development driver Aleš Jirásek wasn’t even chasing a record—he was running the Bohema with customers on a Curbstone track day, in traffic, with no special preparation beyond the car’s factory road-legal rubber. No independent timing sheet or formal verification from Praga, Spa-Francorchamps, or Curbstone has been released to lock in the exact date, event, and time as an official record. Still, the numbers tell a story. The Bohema’s 3.8-liter twin-turbo V6 churns out 690 horsepower and 535 pound-feet of torque, while Praga quotes a curb weight under 2,200 pounds—light for a hypercar. That power-to-weight ratio is critical at a track like Spa, where Eau Rouge and long flat-out sections demand both grunt and grip. Praga claims the Bohema generates 1,984 pounds of downforce at 155 mph, helping it stick to the tarmac through the circuit’s fastest corners without needing slick tires. Top speed is capped at 186 mph, a modest figure for a hypercar but one that underscores the Bohema’s focus on cornering speed over straight-line runs. The Czech brand is building just 89 units of the Bohema, with prices starting at €1.28 million before tax—roughly $1.4 million at current exchange rates—and customer cars are already in use on public roads and rally events, not languishing as one-off test mules. If the Spa time is confirmed, it will belong to a production car that owners can actually drive, not a bespoke track weapon. The lap underscores a shift in how boutique brands now validate performance: not on spec sheets, but on real circuits, with cars that are fully road-legal and type-approved.