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Stock Z06 wins Nola m/sports Ultimate Street Car Challenge
I witnessed this bone stock Z06 (not 07) A8 lay down second fastest time on Road course, fastest time on power stop segment, and third fastest in auto cross. Chad Langley from Longview Texas ran his first ever event like this and ended up with first overall among an amazing field of serious prepped cars. Only mod was 19" Kuhmos all around. Congrats
The Design and Engineering thing is subjective as hell. They should drop that from their judging. How do two different 2015 Z06s get two different design and engineering scores? Do they get that score before or after they actually run the event?
The Design and Engineering thing is subjective as hell. They should drop that from their judging. How do two different 2015 Z06s get two different design and engineering scores? Do they get that score before or after they actually run the event?
Bill
^ Agree 100%
Congrats to the Z06...there were quite a few of them!
2020 Corvette of the Year Finalist (track prepared)
C3 of Year Winner (track prepared) 2019
Originally Posted by Bill Dearborn
The Design and Engineering thing is subjective as hell. They should drop that from their judging. How do two different 2015 Z06s get two different design and engineering scores? Do they get that score before or after they actually run the event?
Bill
I agree wholeheartedly! I won all the performance categories in Charlotte in my Z06 but lost so many points in D&E that I ended up 4th overall. The D&E score you see is not the actual score given to the competitor but rather a ranking. So if all the cars were really close in the D&E score, the car with the best score gets 100 points and the car maybe only a few tenths lower could finish 20 points lower. It is a difficult category for relatively stock cars like a C7Z that already have a large bit of work done from GM (aero, brakes, carbon fiber, seats, etc.)
I damn-near went to NOLA to run last weekend as there was a high likelihood of getting a vegas invite with both Kepler and Hobaugh already having theirs.. I checked the weather about 50 times Friday debating it but ultimately decided against the risk of playing in the water.
Congrats to Chad on narrowly beating the GTR! Hope he takes it to Vegas for the invitational!
The Design and Engineering thing is subjective as hell. They should drop that from their judging. How do two different 2015 Z06s get two different design and engineering scores? Do they get that score before or after they actually run the event?
Bill
Maybe because the lower-ranked Z06 was a stage 1 or stage 2 vs. the winner, who was rocking a stage 3 setup? Just a guess...
2020 Corvette of the Year Finalist (track prepared)
C3 of Year Winner (track prepared) 2019
Originally Posted by Speednet
Maybe because the lower-ranked Z06 was a stage 1 or stage 2 vs. the winner, who was rocking a stage 3 setup? Just a guess...
Here you can see how a small difference in score can make such a huge difference in ranking.
Chad had a raw score of 68.9997
David had a raw score of 63.333
A difference of 5.6667 raw points but 14 points in actual ranking of 66 to 80. The difference in winning the class and coming in 3rd or 4th....
It is all very subjective which is why I think it is so controversial
I witnessed this bone stock Z06 (not 07) A8 lay down second fastest time on Road course, fastest time on power stop segment, and third fastest in auto cross. Chad Langley from Longview Texas ran his first ever event like this and ended up with first overall among an amazing field of serious prepped cars. Only mod was 19" Kuhmos all around. Congrats
This is impossible. Everyone knows that Z06 overheat the moment they go near a racetrack. Double true for a A8.
Congrats to Chad on the win and invite to OUSCI. I've raced against his brother and those Langley boys can wheel a car, especially on the auto cross track.
Originally Posted by pkincy
I thought the Kumho 720 ACRs were not a legal tire?
Rich? comments?
Originally Posted by pkincy
Except it is on the exclusion list as that is a made up TW rating. Or at least it was for the SCCA and Optima.
They are legal for use in Optima and a few other events... Ask me how I know.
Originally Posted by Dabigsnake
He drove around the overheating issue by laying down his best times within the first 3-4 laps. It's a timed even, not a race.
We all have to "get it done" in 2-3 laps at these events. Even in the expert group, you start encountering lapped traffic after only a couple laps and driving these cars 100% on 200 tw tires will over heat them quickly. I try to always get in the front, set a good lap time right off the bat in first session and then stay gridded in the front position.
Last edited by RichieRichZ06; 09-26-2016 at 11:37 AM.
09-20-2016, 01:42 AM
Stock Z06 wins Nola m/sports Ultimate Street Car Challenge
