Behind every Corvette winding up in a river, there’s a great story. Sounds a bit bizarre, huh? Then again, maybe not after hearing John Kramer’s account about why he drove a candy-apple-red Corvette he bought for his daughter into the Delaware River.

The chance to ride shotgun with Danica Patrick in any car would put me on cloud nine for damn-near a year, but in a Corvette around an obstacle course? That’s an experience to die for.

Specifically, the 2015 Corvette Z06 with the Z07 package holds the distinction of having the most aerodynamic downforce ever measured on a production car.

An eyewitness claims the ‘Vette spun out of control and took another vehicle with it through a cable-wire median, shredding the vehicle to the point where the cable almost came through the driver’s seat.

Does a C5 Corvette Z06 stand a chance against a Chevy Blazer in a tug of war? Click past the jump to find out.

The new Corvette could actually be barred from South Korea because the car’s 455-horsepower LT1 V8 is just too damn throaty for the country’s engine noise regulations.

Underneath, the car featured a cooling fan powered by, of all things, a snowmobile engine that would actually pull the car to the ground with about 1,000 pounds of downforce, which is how it got the name “Sucker Vette.”