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Old 12-16-2018, 03:48 PM
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I was at cars and coffee this morning at the circuit of the Americas in Austin ant there were two black C7 ZR1's running on the track. Damn they sounded amazing. Did they belong to anyone here?

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On the topic of " You never know what will show up at COTA"
You might enjoy some of these.

Here are a few interesting cars you might like.

Im pretty sure this is the 720S Adam drove

This is the only one not in our private run group, dont know the owner, but he parked it out side my garage

Here is Bill's ZR1, already done some Mods

Sarah just got hers wrapped, and yes that is a unicorn on the hood, BTW it farts glitter

Here is a Lambo Super Trofeo, down from cali

Here is the P1, Adam drove, BTW he always gets to drive the cool stuff.

Here is my ZR1, used it to get me to the track and back but I did not track it, still only had 350 miles on it.

Here is Shawn's Lamborghini Performante, really awesome car!

This is one of two GT2RS's in our group.
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Yes, I believe they are Forum Members.

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Any lap times?
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Originally Posted by RichieRichZ06
Any lap times?
I didn’t...my harnesses didn’t arrive in time and I was stuck driving the McLaren 720s and P1 ;(

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Originally Posted by SilveradoSS500


I didn’t...my harnesses didn’t arrive in time and I was stuck driving the McLaren 720s and P1 ;(

Lol stuck driving those POS huh?
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Originally Posted by SilveradoSS500


I didn’t...my harnesses didn’t arrive in time and I was stuck driving the McLaren 720s and P1 ;(

It's a dirty job, but someone's gotta do it!
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I didn’t push it crazy hard but I have in the past. The 720s I flogged and went for lap times.


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SilveradoSS was gracious enough to let me take a few laps in his ZR1. Felt great with the short shifter doing no lift 4-5 shifts on the back straight. Car still moves around a fair bit, more than I'd like in a track car, and really not that much firmer than my non ZTK that I had out here this summer. Limiting factor is not having harnesses.

What a blast though....thoroughly enjoyed the experience!
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On the topic of " You never know what will show up at COTA"
You might enjoy some of these.

Here are a few interesting cars you might like.

Im pretty sure this is the 720S Adam drove

This is the only one not in our private run group, dont know the owner, but he parked it out side my garage

Here is Bill's ZR1, already done some Mods

Sarah just got hers wrapped, and yes that is a unicorn on the hood, BTW it farts glitter

Here is a Lambo Super Trofeo, down from cali

Here is the P1, Adam drove, BTW he always gets to drive the cool stuff.

Here is my ZR1, used it to get me to the track and back but I did not track it, still only had 350 miles on it.

Here is Shawn's Lamborghini Performante, really awesome car!

This is one of two GT2RS's in our group.

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Originally Posted by Operations
On the topic of " You never know what will show up at COTA"
You might enjoy some of these.

Here are a few interesting cars you might like.

Im pretty sure this is the 720S Adam drove

This is the only one not in our private run group, dont know the owner, but he parked it out side my garage

Here is Bill's ZR1, already done some Mods

Sarah just got hers wrapped, and yes that is a unicorn on the hood, BTW it farts glitter

Here is a Lambo Super Trofeo, down from cali

Here is the P1, Adam drove, BTW he always gets to drive the cool stuff.

Here is my ZR1, used it to get me to the track and back but I did not track it, still only had 350 miles on it.

Here is Shawn's Lamborghini Performante, really awesome car!
This is one of two GT2RS's in our group.
Man.. I am so pleb

What do these people do for a living to be able to buy this ****??
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Originally Posted by mammoth713
Man.. I am so pleb

What do these people do for a living to be able to buy this ****??
It varies, but most have worked hard and were smart business people.

But I have not really scratched the surface, most in our group have more then one high value car, if not several.
Two in our run group each have a Senna inbound,
Once we had Aston Martin deliver a dozen or so of their Vulcan track cars to their owners (Adam scored seat time then too, come to think of it)
on another time we had 1964-65 Ferrari race car valued at $10M, the owner races in vintage series, there with his full time mechanic to practice for the up coming Monaco GP
Regularly have race cars, 911 Cup, Ferrari challenge cars, Trans AM, from race teams there to practice, funny thing is some are slower then some of our cars.

Pretty cool
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DAMN! I thought I saw a Senna down there. Wish I could have got over to the garage area. Some really impressive cars in that group. I did see the two 570's in the parking lot for the show before they went back to the track. God I feel like a little poor guy in my C6 Z06.
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Originally Posted by Operations

It varies, but most have worked hard and were smart business people.

But I have not really scratched the surface, most in our group have more then one high value car, if not several.
Two in our run group each have a Senna inbound,
Once we had Aston Martin deliver a dozen or so of their Vulcan track cars to their owners (Adam scored seat time then too, come to think of it)
on another time we had 1964-65 Ferrari race car valued at $10M, the owner races in vintage series, there with his full time mechanic to practice for the up coming Monaco GP
Regularly have race cars, 911 Cup, Ferrari challenge cars, Trans AM, from race teams there to practice, funny thing is some are slower then some of our cars.

Pretty cool
Help me out... Seriously

Doctors.. real estate... small business owners.. stock traders.. money managers.. inherited wealth...?

Cuz if these guys can afford a gt2 rs.. that means they can probably afford 5 or more of them.
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Originally Posted by mammoth713

Doctors.. real estate... small business owners.. stock traders.. money managers.. inherited wealth...?
All of the above, and more!
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There’s about 4-5 GT2RS’s in our group... I call it the GayT2RS, hate that modded beetle.
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Originally Posted by DoctorV8
All of the above, and more!
This is so true,
I fell compelled to mention, even though there is a bit of wealth displayed by the very nature of the cars, everyone is extremely nice, helpful, and easygoing, you wont see ones putting on airs of entitlement. We all get along superbly, all are extremity advanced drivers, hence we don't have any drama on or off the track, very very refreshing group to be with.
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So nice to see that people are enjoying their cars at the track. Really is the only way to truly appreciate these bad boys. Living up in the northeast i am literally loosing my mind just looking at my car in the garage. Going to be a silly long winter.
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Would be super cool if you guys that are tracking the exotics to post some lap times on my site tracklaps.net

It's just a lap time database for drivers.


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