In car ride along. WOW !!!
12-01-2017, 07:46 PM
#21
12-01-2017, 08:02 PM
#22
12-01-2017, 08:15 PM
#24
It will tell once a production version gets into a test driver's hands but from a passenger ride along? We aren't seeing much.
As far as lap times go, all we know right now is that a ZR1 ZTK is 2.5 seconds quicker than the Z06 Z07 at whatever configuration GM runs at VIR. If that's the Full Course, that time gap is ridiculous. If it's the Grand Course Car and Driver uses, it's still insane.
As far as lap times go, all we know right now is that a ZR1 ZTK is 2.5 seconds quicker than the Z06 Z07 at whatever configuration GM runs at VIR. If that's the Full Course, that time gap is ridiculous. If it's the Grand Course Car and Driver uses, it's still insane.
Last edited by Kappa; 12-01-2017 at 08:16 PM.
12-01-2017, 08:18 PM
#25
12-01-2017, 08:21 PM
#26
We must not be watching the same video.
I see him get loose at 0:58. From the 2nd lap on the car is hooked up. Please give me a timestamp so I can see what you're seeing.
At 2:28, 2:35 and 2:45, he goes WOT in 3rd with no sideslip or audible ignition cut from PTM.
To quote Autoblog:
Even more goes to the carbon ceramic brakes, which are simply ferocious. They're similar to the Z06's Brembos, but with extra heat-treatment and a high-temperature pad compound. But for every stab of the brakes, Tung hammers on the gas just as quickly. We blast for a second or so up a very short straight at the top of the Balcony before hauling down again and heading downhill. The ability to call up positive and negative Gs like this with just a dance on the pedals is mightily impressive. If you think an extra 105 hp and 65 lb-ft would turn the C7 Z06 into an unredeemable mess, think again. The ZR1 can put down the power, and it corners just like an angrier Z06.
Last edited by Kappa; 12-01-2017 at 08:31 PM.
12-01-2017, 10:39 PM
#28
Scraping the splitter.
12-01-2017, 11:50 PM
#29
12-02-2017, 12:18 AM
#30
Scraping the splitter.
If you're not going to track the heck out of the car? Eh...maybe not. But I'm not one to tell people how to spend their money or use their car.
S.
12-02-2017, 03:16 AM
#31
Le Mans Master
We must not be watching the same video.
I see him get loose at 0:58. From the 2nd lap on the car is hooked up. Please give me a timestamp so I can see what you're seeing.
At 2:28, 2:35 and 2:45, he goes WOT in 3rd with no sideslip or audible ignition cut from PTM.
To quote Autoblog:
The car has a ton of power- it can use more rubber. Unless you can go WOT through the whole turn, you're traction limited and wider tires can help
2-3 seconds on a track like that is a lot. And we're not talking 2-3 seconds off a miata's lap time. Seconds get more exponentially expensive, especially when they come with a warranty.
Last edited by village idiot; 12-02-2017 at 03:25 AM.
12-02-2017, 07:25 AM
#32
Hoping I'm being a bit conservative with that guess.
12-02-2017, 09:50 AM
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12-02-2017, 10:05 AM
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He's also not on the gas hard/early in many turns. Even the time stamps you give, he's not WOT until he's basically out of the turn completely. For example, the 2:28 youre citing: He isn't WOT until the steering angle is down to a mere 16 degrees (and about to be straight)
The car has a ton of power- it can use more rubber. Unless you can go WOT through the whole turn, you're traction limited and wider tires can help
2-3 seconds on a track like that is a lot. And we're not talking 2-3 seconds off a miata's lap time. Seconds get more exponentially expensive, especially when they come with a warranty.
The car has a ton of power- it can use more rubber. Unless you can go WOT through the whole turn, you're traction limited and wider tires can help
2-3 seconds on a track like that is a lot. And we're not talking 2-3 seconds off a miata's lap time. Seconds get more exponentially expensive, especially when they come with a warranty.
12-02-2017, 05:56 PM
#37
Race Director
C'mon Sean...you KNOW the car sucks
I love the comment about the transmission downshifting (during the warm up lap) in the middle of a corner. Oh well. C7 Forum has been this way for 4+ years now, I guess it's too much to hope for change.
Lord, deliver us from the CF "experts".
Last edited by jimmyb; 12-02-2017 at 06:53 PM.
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12-02-2017, 05:59 PM
#38
Race Director
12-02-2017, 06:04 PM
#39
Race Director
It will tell once a production version gets into a test driver's hands but from a passenger ride along? We aren't seeing much.
As far as lap times go, all we know right now is that a ZR1 ZTK is 2.5 seconds quicker than the Z06 Z07 at whatever configuration GM runs at VIR. If that's the Full Course, that time gap is ridiculous. If it's the Grand Course Car and Driver uses, it's still insane.
As far as lap times go, all we know right now is that a ZR1 ZTK is 2.5 seconds quicker than the Z06 Z07 at whatever configuration GM runs at VIR. If that's the Full Course, that time gap is ridiculous. If it's the Grand Course Car and Driver uses, it's still insane.
I would also guess that GM avoids the Grand Course configuration out of deference to C&D. Jim Mero was at the 2015 LL and did run the Grand Course in a C7 Z06 and did a 2:41:32!!!! Note that Mero is in a manual car.
The time that C&D lists for the C7 Z06 is THEIR time, not Mero's. FWI, C&D's time for the C7Z06 is 2:44:6 (the same manual car that Mero used)
Here it is:
Last edited by jimmyb; 12-02-2017 at 06:27 PM.
12-02-2017, 06:55 PM
#40
Race Director