One of our fellow Corvette Forum members destroyed his C7 Z51’s differential while using launch control.

The Texas Invitational is one of the most extreme airfield top-speed exhibitions on the planet, featuring some of the highest horsepower street machines ever built.

A full decade into Car and Driver’s Lightning Lap, and one thing remains the same: Corvette provides prodigious speeds for comparatively little outlay.

8.69 seconds at 153 miles per hour. These are unfathomable numbers for most of us mere mortals who have never built anything like this take-no-prisoners C6 Corvette Z06.