ZR1X & ZR1 Corvettes set the top two laptimes for American production cars at Nurburgring

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reinforce Corvette as a dominant force in American performance

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That’s pretty low bar. “We can beat a Mustang around a track!”

If you’re into that sort of thing. I’d rather track an old 3 series with go fast goodies that I can wrench on.

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GTD

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I am not a car guy at all. That thing looks like a TPOS to me.

I think car buying on stats alone killed the driving experience…which is the only thing I ever cared about. I drive a manual midsized truck now. I zoom around though.

Porsche has major advantages over Chevy at the Nurburgring. One, it's Porsche's home track so they can perfect the car's setup. Second, the porsche driver is a professional and a Ring specialist. Chevy had amateur drivers and a limited time window to learn the track and set the cars up.

At VIR, the ZR1 set a production car record at 2:32 compared to 2:37 in the GT3RS. This time the setup strongly favored the Chevy with their own driver, likely more time to set the car up, etc as the Porsche time was during the C&D lightning lap.

I suspect the Chevy is significantly faster on an even playing field but the Porsche punches way above it's weight.

I assume they were standard "street " cars, with stock-everything, except maybe tires.

That's an impressive time, and nothing sounds like a flat-plane V-8, but you're really outrunning your safety equipment.

Doing that speed routinely, I'd have a cage.

The Corvette has a pretty significant price advantage over the Porsche, especially now.

To show what the car is capable of for someone who's less than a professional driver...

Amazing achievement. Congrats to the Corvette team.

They should have paid Max Verstappen to be one, or the only, driver.

Stupid excited to be picking up my Z06 next week.

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Stupid excited to be picking up my Z06 next week.

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Saw and heard my first Z06 in the wild last week. Good looking and good sounding car. Have fun!