C6 and the GingerMan Raceway
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Drifting
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C6 and the GingerMan Raceway
Recall sometime ago we had video strips of a couple of C-6s in camo chasing each other around GingerMan Raceway in Michigan. An article about the designer of that track says he likes flow. "When I do a track I try to make the approach to the corner with trepidation, then when you get to the apex there is a sense of satisfaction because you've hit it right, and then there is the pure adrenaline as you accelerate out and look forward to doing it again." He does this to insure that motorcycles and cars can race on the same track. The bikes require the flow.
As a vehicle reflects where it was developed, it appears that the nature of the design of GingerMan plays a big role in the handling nature of the C-6 as big perhaps as a certain track in Germany that starts with N. Wonder who was behind the wheels of those two Vettes?
As a vehicle reflects where it was developed, it appears that the nature of the design of GingerMan plays a big role in the handling nature of the C-6 as big perhaps as a certain track in Germany that starts with N. Wonder who was behind the wheels of those two Vettes?
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Drifting
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From: Chapel Hill NC
Re: C6 and the GingerMan Raceway (Z-Rated)
Interesting the impact that testing at one track can have, isn't it? The final development at the N track in Germany is stated by GM to have benefited the development of both the Vette and the Cad V version even though both cars were and are tested at numerous tracks. If GingerMan is the track up the road where a quick check run can be made and as Hill talks about compairative lap times at that track against Vipers, that track may have a large impact on the characteristics of the final product. Further much of the testing at other locations is specialized to weather, endurance, subsystems etc. The final development of the complete system as a road vehicle is not done everywhere but rather some very carefully selected somewheres.
