Nurburgring lap time
05-18-2017, 04:35 PM
#221
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Yes I'm one of those owners who don't track the car or needs 650hp but I own a Z06 because foremost I'm a Corvette person and have owned Corvette's most of my life. Call it a hobby a passion whatever. I'm proud and feel good when I drive it, and don't care what everyone else thinks.
This whole thing around this Nuremberg time is a little baffling to me and if GM does have a time why hold back? Some of you say the time isn't important but why is it every major car manufacture that has a track capable car comes to this track? And as far as I know have all published times? I'm sure the end goal is not just about the fastest time. I would believe that these manufactures used this track as a measuring stick with the goal to prove that their design works, to build a car with the proper balance on a track that offers a lot of variables vs just going straight down a track real fast.
You might say it's the final test like years of college that everything you've worked for or in this case design for passes the test.
So to me Nuremberg is the ultimate test because it's the same test that all these other manufactures also take and let's face it can give certain manufactures bragging rights as well. It certainly doesn't hurt sales.
You may not care about the time but would you think twice about buying a Corvette if knowing your Corvette ran slower than a Honda around this track?
So maybe folks want to see this time only to know the Z06 actually did pass the test rather than just hear GM saying don't worry it did good. Be like spending $100,000 on your kids college education and them saying don't worry he did good.......
Most of us never played professional baseball or football like most of aren't professional race car drivers but that doesn't stop us from wanting our team to win or our cars being capable of such. We brag when our team wins and mad when they don't even though we had no part in the win or the lost.
We take pride when our home town team wins as we take pride when our Corvette does as well...
This whole thing around this Nuremberg time is a little baffling to me and if GM does have a time why hold back? Some of you say the time isn't important but why is it every major car manufacture that has a track capable car comes to this track? And as far as I know have all published times? I'm sure the end goal is not just about the fastest time. I would believe that these manufactures used this track as a measuring stick with the goal to prove that their design works, to build a car with the proper balance on a track that offers a lot of variables vs just going straight down a track real fast.
You might say it's the final test like years of college that everything you've worked for or in this case design for passes the test.
So to me Nuremberg is the ultimate test because it's the same test that all these other manufactures also take and let's face it can give certain manufactures bragging rights as well. It certainly doesn't hurt sales.
You may not care about the time but would you think twice about buying a Corvette if knowing your Corvette ran slower than a Honda around this track?
So maybe folks want to see this time only to know the Z06 actually did pass the test rather than just hear GM saying don't worry it did good. Be like spending $100,000 on your kids college education and them saying don't worry he did good.......
Most of us never played professional baseball or football like most of aren't professional race car drivers but that doesn't stop us from wanting our team to win or our cars being capable of such. We brag when our team wins and mad when they don't even though we had no part in the win or the lost.
We take pride when our home town team wins as we take pride when our Corvette does as well...
I would love to be wrong and tell everyone in this forum I was wrong but don't think I need to worry about doing that.
05-18-2017, 07:23 PM
#223
Le Mans Master
A benchmark is a benchmark even if 100% of people in this forum don't care or believe in it.
The fact is currently the Nurburgring IS the performance benchmark for sports cars. Team Corvette knows it - Z06 was marketed heavily with the track imagery and they even saying "we validate performance at the Ring". The fact that all models of the C7 have yet to post a time going into year 5 breaks heavily from the tradition set forth by C5 and C6 generations.
If that doesn't matter to someone that is fine. But based on how this forum lit up on all previous timed runs over the last decade plus - I think a lot more than 2-5% care about how these cars perform on the Ring.
The fact is currently the Nurburgring IS the performance benchmark for sports cars. Team Corvette knows it - Z06 was marketed heavily with the track imagery and they even saying "we validate performance at the Ring". The fact that all models of the C7 have yet to post a time going into year 5 breaks heavily from the tradition set forth by C5 and C6 generations.
If that doesn't matter to someone that is fine. But based on how this forum lit up on all previous timed runs over the last decade plus - I think a lot more than 2-5% care about how these cars perform on the Ring.
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05-19-2017, 09:54 AM
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