lol. An old lady can take these cars down the 1/4. Especially with an auto. The car is built for the curves. Take it out an enjoy it. If I wanted a 1/4 mile Car I wouldn’t buy a Corvette.

That’s sucks. Glad your not injured and can tell the story. Car can be replaced. I do about 4 weekend track events a year and would never do one without track insurance. I have been toying with the idea of getting a c5 that I could afford to walk away from if stuffed into a wall. Because i only do 4 events a year do to work and family commitments i think i will just suck it up and purchase event insurance from RLI.
BTW, the car looked sweet with those rims.

650lb ft of torque is insane for a sports car (imo). I wish these cars had 700hp with 550lb ft. Especially on factory tires. Something happened due to losing traction on your shift when you went back to full power. I don’t take my car to the 1/4 mile since insurance is much harder to get than track days. In my mind it’s a road course car not a drag racer and you are right something is up with these cars that sends them into the wall. I think it’s not lifting soon enough when there are traction issues but then the weight gets thrown forward lightening the rear end even more spinning it around. I don’t have any issues going full throttle into 2nd gear on the street when my tires are nice and hot, it just does a small burnout and then i pedal it til it hooks then back on the gas.

I know you say so —- but did you leave the active handling on or did you have all nannies off. If the car is tuned maybe the tuner messed with something there he shouldn’t have.

That was a ranger recommendation over in the c6z forum maybe 8 years ago.

His advice was leave active handling full on but traction control off in normal handling mode which I guess would be tour mode on the c7z. This would cut power and pull the driver out of a bad situation I would think even if the diff sent power to one wheel.

timmy , sorry that had to happen to you. Good thing you didn’t hit the other car. Track insurance is probably good to have more for the liability if you hit other cars and injure people. Your max liability in this case is just your car which is 60 k. If you bent the frame and you want to walk away you can sell it as salvage for 20k. So max out of pocket is 20 or 30k. This could have been a much worse financial disaster.

My big concern taking miss piggy to the drag strip is some 22 year old grease monkey in his souped up 1989 Subaru wants to take out an old fart over 40 in his fancy new z06 and he is all exuberant coming off the starting line and 90 degree T-bones me driving miss piggy.

i didn’t know that. Thought it was 2016. Let’s hope the frame is not bent.

I was driving miss piggy today and not pushing it at all. I thought the electronic steering and drive by wire gas / accelerator felt delayed. Even adjusting the steering modes in the settings menu to all possibilities and cycling through the different setting modes of track sport and tour it seemed like a delay and not at all connected with the road.

I guess if your Randy Pobst or an amateur with experience like bill Dearborn or the guy Poor-sha that had the z06 and now a zr1 , you can shave a few tenths of second off at the track.

if I was just going to be doing 1/4 or half mile stuff I would be better off with an old F or even E body wirh upgraded suspension , brakes and a 572 crate motor. I have a friend with 69 Camaro set up like that and driving around it certainly was not as plush but also didn’t feel as wiggy as a c7z. Use the c7z to putt-putt to dinner out on Saturday night.

i can see me getting in trouble with miss piggy because 70 percent of the time it feels like a pig and you stay in it wanting more. 30percent of the time I think man this thing runs damn good. So that 70 percent when it’s running like a pig because the computers are holding it back and I am saying to myself come on miss piggy go faster and I am staying in it then the computer changes it mind unbeknownst to me in that micro millisecond you are in trouble. Especially with the tires they put on these cars that help poorsha and bill d. Shave a tenth of a second of their track time all warmed up properly.

maybe the extra power overloaded the stability program. More then it could intelligently handle.it was keeping you straight for a while. Maybe it would be better without anything. And you could sense it before it is too late.

The car sounded Strong. When you grabbed second it sounded like you had extreme wheel spin. It seemed to be hooking in first. You were probably at 75 to 85 mph when you turned towards the wall. The damage seems light considering.

this z06 did the same thing as it was in second gear. Yours sounds a lot stronger.