sycraft

Well the C7 Z06 just laid down the gauntlet. Second fastest car ever to go around VIR in Car & Driver's Lightning Lap. The first place car? The ~$850,000 Porsche 918

Babaron

That 1.4 sec difference comes at a pretty hefty price.

sycraft

Also, a GM engineer laid down a 2:41.32, making it the fastest time a street legal production car has EVER gone around VIR.

C7_Z06

Long discussion/thread already on this topic... https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...tning-lap.html

bluestreak63

So they ran a Hyundai, but couldn't run a C5Z around the track? I imagine it would have faired well.

JDMUSCLE

Would the difference between the viper TA and the Z06 be smaller if the viper was equipped with the same tires as the Vette? Just asking.. Lol

C5Longhorn

I wish they would have brought a Viper again this year. That is a great time for the Z06 and it would have been nice to see what the Viper ACR or TA 2.0 would lay down.

Rick

kenw

Great time. Wonder if it overheated???

RC000E

Porsche was driven by a media guy, Z06 driven by Mero who is paid to drive Corvettes backed by data and a team....big difference.

DFW_C7

Incorrect - all C&D lightening lap times are driven by the C&D team and those are the only times we are comparing .... go back to your hole

CliffB-99

Nope. Jim Mero was just there to answer questions. He laid down 2.41 when GM rented the track for private testing several months ago. C&D ran the 2.44. I know this because I took a few seconds to read the article posted above.

Vernon

Now that is a fantastic lap time by CD, and even better for Mero.

Wow!

Very impressive performance achievement!!!

JackTripper

Awesome!

KustomsbyKev

Nice!!

harlold

lol, the C&D drivers aren't all that great, watch some of the videos. They barely know how to make it around the track in some of the vehicles.

The only real issue with VIR is that they have so many configurations it seems it is hard to compare lap times from one run to another. But it is nice that VIR is becoming an east coast "go to" spot.

Ivan Viera

Well in the case of the Z 2:44 in a 100 degree temperature is very impressive and even Mero said that would be about 2 seconds faster in the 45 degree lap that he did. So that is pretty near pro level time.

BOBSZ06

The more the better!
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