Per the video description
Car: Corvette Z06; Driver: sport auto's Test Driver Christian Gebhardt; Track: Nordschleife; Laptime: 7.13,90 min (rounded up: 7.14 min); Tyre: Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 ZP; Supertest Corvette Z06: More in sport auto 8/2017.

That cat was shittin & gettin!
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That is cool...

as for nobody cares about the ring time? I don't think 99% of us do care but what we did care about was everybody running their mouth over and over again about how couldn't make it around the stupid track like the car was going to overheat in 7 minutes I mean come on? Just glad this is put to rest

Within 0.9s of the million dollar 900hp "hyper car" 918.

WoW.

Not quite, it did 6:57. Lol, sport auto got 7:13.:thumbs:

Awesome The Bowtie Rocks

any reason on the final back straight he never floored it????Top end there was way down to the ZL1.

That is not true. The ZL1 was doing 169 mph when it went under the bridge, the Z06 was doing 277 kph, which is about 172 mph.

Correct. Also, the Stage 3 Aero on the Z kept the Top Speed only at 275kph. Not that he wasn't flooring it.

I just watched the Z06 lap on one monitor and the ZL1 on another. Pretty interesting how close the two are. The ZL1 actually pulls ahead in sector 2 of the track but the Z06 flys through the last part of sector 2 and gains a good bit of ground into sector 3.

That's awesome number, wonder why gm never released the official numbers since it's very capable car?

Great video! Almost makes you feel like a passenger. Thanks for posting!

That's what I don't get. Great to see it kill the ring. It makes no sense why GM wouldn't release times when they have for all their other cars. If GM could get 3 more seconds out of it they should be shouting the achievement from the rooftops (like the ZL1 1LE, which unofficially did do 7:13). Still curious if the A8 could do it and how it would do.

It would make more sense if GM didn't release times for any of their cars, but they have released times for the C5Z (Dave Hill driving, but I don't think it was an official GM test) C6, C6Z, ZR1, C5 ZL1, C5 Z28, C6 ZL1, C6 ZL1 1LE....

I suspect the GM official time/video will come out over the next few days. From recent history, the official times get released close to the Sport Auto tests.

Crossing my fingers, we can see an ever better official time from GM. Come on General..get on it!

Great time! Glad to see finally see a ring time. Thank you Sport Auto!

I thought I saw it bump 285kph or 177mph.

:thumbs:

Maybe GM hasn't had a clean run with it yet...rain, traffic, crash, etc.

Sport auto time vs sport auto time

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