As I shared in one of the response I post, I will be taking on the Tails of the Dragon during Father’s Day Weekend. WOW… what a day it was, two other corvette club member joined me during the run. This is their first time on the Dragon so the initial run was as advertise 30 mph.
At times I would see them behind me, then I feel confident they are still on the road so I pushed it a little. Can you say GREAT CAR... Oh yeah, it took the twisty like a hot knife to butter. This was my first on the Dragon with this car, not my first on the Dragon. We completed the Dragon run and proceeded to the Skyway, again their first time hence that was slow going also. It was not until we headed to Fontana Rd. to visit Fontana Dam. Those of you familiar with that road and the Dagon, some of it have as much twisted turns than the Dragon. I took it easy for a while for my company to get use to this road; well it was slow going also. So I decided to test my C7 abilities, now some of these turns had a sign (10 mph) and those feelers on the curbs to let you know that it is a sharp turn. They usually came in three to four curbs in the row.
As my wife said, “You didn’t have to show that much muscle”. I took those turns starting at 45 mph and slowly increased speed to 55 mph and showing .75G’s on the Heads up display. I did more of this after I slowed down to make sure my companies are still behind me. Then I would do it again, more and more I got the feel for what this car can do. More and more I pushed, at one point I came up to a group of motorcycle to the point I was pushing them to go faster.
On our way back, we had to go through the point where 129 and route 28 meet by the Deals Gap store, there we headed back to our Lodge “Blue Water Mountain Bed and Breakfast”. After we cross the Dam close to Topoco Lodge, it was time again to push it. There’s straighter road on this part of 129 and then some turns. I pushed it again, this time reaching 105 mph and then gearing down to take the turn at 60 mph. This C7 stayed flat throughout, not an inch of body roll.
The day was nothing but great driving putting this C7’s capabilities to the test, the last car I had done this on was my Boxster S Porsche. This C7 handles and take corner as good as the Boxster if not better. As I shared earlier WOW, Chevrolet you did something good with this car… one of the comments was: “I don’t know what you were doing, but I couldn’t keep up around the turns”.

 

Great way to enjoy the Vette thanks for sharing.

 

OP: Base, Z51 or Z06?

 

I don't get there as often as I want. But, at least the LIST is out of my BUCKET.

 

Z52 and lowered to max on stock adjustment bolts. With the XO Verona wheels with stock "Z" packages tires.

 

I'd love to run the Dragon in my C7 someday....congrats.

 

Just a word of caution about the Dragon.....hardly a weekend goes by without a serious accident on that stretch. This past weekend one motorcycle rider was killed and another was injured when the two bikes collided. Paper says "racing" is suspected. Even if you are careful, the guy coming the other way can be over the line and the day turns real bad.

 

Sounds like you had a great time! I was just down there in my 370Z for the first time last month. Hoping to take my future C7 there next year.

 

Enjoyed the ride, thanks for sharing!

 

I can't wait.....I'm taking a road trip the second week of August and part of the trip is not only the Dragon, but also the Skyway....first the Skyway, then the Dragon, then on to the Fontana Dam.....then all the way down 28 all the way to Almond. And on to go up the Blue Ridge Parkway for about 250 miles.....Its going to be a BLAST!

 

Made a detour on my way home from museum delivery and while I did not push it too much because the car was still VERY new to me I agree, this car really holds the corners. Looking forward to going back!