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Jul 30, 2025 | 03:48 PM

RRvet

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Ring time...finally

Rick has it.....almost!

It'll be announced tomorrow!

Jul 30, 2025 | 08:00 PM

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hes just coattailing the Blogger for attention...............

Jul 31, 2025 | 10:24 AM

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Ring times are out - Chevrolet Corvette ZR1X and ZR1 now the fastest cars from an American manufacturer

# Time Vehicle Category
1 06:29.090 Mercedes AMG One Super Sports Car
2 06:43.300 Porsche 911 GT2 RS Manthey Performance Kit Sports Car
3 06:44.749 Porsche 911 GT2 RS MR Modified Vehicles
4 06:48.047 Mercedes AMG Black Series Sports Car
5 06:49.275 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1X Prototypes / Pre-Production Vehicles
6 06:49.328 Porsche 911 GT3 RS Sports Car
7 06:50.763 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 Prototypes / Pre-Production Vehicles
8 06:52.072 Ford Mustang GTD Sports Car

Link to Press Release

Jul 31, 2025 | 10:50 AM

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Real?

Jul 31, 2025 | 01:00 PM

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hes just coattailing the Blogger for attention...............

Enjoy this one....

Jul 31, 2025 | 01:06 PM

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However 5th and 7th place isn’t that good for all the hype these cars have been getting and 1200 HP

Jul 31, 2025 | 01:29 PM

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They were being driven by GM engineers. Perhaps they would do better numbers with pro drivers.

Jul 31, 2025 | 01:44 PM

PerryKing

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However 5th and 7th place isn’t that good for all the hype these cars have been getting and 1200 HP

AMG One 2.7 million dollars
GT2 RS 411,000.00 + 115k for the kit
AMG Black Series 400k - 775k

seems like the little Vettes did pretty good considering

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Jul 31, 2025 | 02:02 PM

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However 5th and 7th place isn’t that good for all the hype these cars have been getting and 1200 HP

But they are thousands of dollars cheaper production cars.

Jul 31, 2025 | 02:27 PM

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They were being driven by GM engineers. Perhaps they would do better numbers with pro drivers.

Yes, it would be interesting to see the times of someone like Dirk Mueller at the wheel...not saying the GM engineers are poor drivers, but in most cases manufacturers hire pro drivers to set Ring records,

Jul 31, 2025 | 03:04 PM

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199 on back strait... ha nice

Jul 31, 2025 | 03:18 PM

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Put Nick Tandy in 'em...

Jul 31, 2025 | 03:38 PM

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The GTD time was set with Dirk Müller who is a Pro driver. The times set by the all three Corvettes is impressive, well done.

Jul 31, 2025 | 03:50 PM

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Originally Posted by bpenn8966

Ring times are out - Chevrolet Corvette ZR1X and ZR1 now the fastest cars from an American manufacturer

# Time Vehicle Category
1 06:29.090 Mercedes AMG One Super Sports Car
2 06:43.300 Porsche 911 GT2 RS Manthey Performance Kit Sports Car
3 06:44.749 Porsche 911 GT2 RS MR Modified Vehicles
4 06:48.047 Mercedes AMG Black Series Sports Car
5 06:49.275 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1X Prototypes / Pre-Production Vehicles
6 06:49.328 Porsche 911 GT3 RS Sports Car
7 06:50.763 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 Prototypes / Pre-Production Vehicles
8 06:52.072 Ford Mustang GTD Sports Car

Link to Press Release

I noticed some people on other media are jumping on the fact that the ZR1 and ZR1X are listed as “Prototype / Pre-Production” and are saying that invalidates their time. Here is how GM explains it:

”The Corvettes at the Nürburgring were all U.S. production-spec vehicles, with the only modifications being the safety equipment recommended by the track. This includes a roll hoop, full containment race seat, fire extinguisher, and a six-point safety harness. All three set lap times for the Prototype/Pre-Production category, since the ZR1 and ZR1X are not sold in Europe and the Z06 was a North American variant.”

Source: https://news.gm.com/home.detail.html...-ZR1X-ZR1.html

Jul 31, 2025 | 05:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Rapid One

However 5th and 7th place isn’t that good for all the hype these cars have been getting and 1200 HP

Proves HP isn’t the end all be all on track. Certainly nothing to hang one’s head over though. Probably one of the only cars in production that could smoke the competition from a dig, a roll, and on track. That’s a well balanced achievement.

Jul 31, 2025 | 05:04 PM

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GM be like: See what had happened was….

Jul 31, 2025 | 07:06 PM

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I love my C8, but this is super anti climactic.

With Corvettes, it's always "but the price" excuse. Go freakin' put Val Bottas or Sergio Perez in the damn cars and see what they can do with it!

Jul 31, 2025 | 07:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Mr. Jonathan

Cheaper to make more power than to design lighter.

So I don't know if your statement holds water given the $$$$ v ET in this one.

The consumables because of the extra weight v the acceleration/handling you have a good argument there. But up-front costs nothing touching a ZR1 an X or heck even the C8Z for that matter. And on any American track? Its not even close.

Jul 31, 2025 | 07:52 PM

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Originally Posted by i007spectre

They were being driven by GM engineers. Perhaps they would do better numbers with pro drivers.

That was my first thought… if you care about the C8 vs the world times you don’t use your own engineers to set Ring times. I’m sure they are very good drivers but US based engineers aren’t close enough or have the time to become world class Ring drivers. GM cares about being the fastest American car and I think they knew exactly where they would end up. If the ZR1 didn’t beat the GTD there would be different drivers…

They are amazing numbers set by drivers whose day job is to design cars.