C8 Z06 reveal - Nürburgring times
10-26-2021, 12:46 PM
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C8 Z06 reveal - Nürburgring times
GM has the times, they show the car on the track, they spoke of the 2.6 sec 0-60, engine specs, power figures, artistry that went into the build etc but no
Come on man.
Nürburgring times?
Come on man.
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10-26-2021, 12:49 PM
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more of a teaser than a real reveal IMO, regardless, I'm salivating .......
10-26-2021, 12:54 PM
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Agreed, I have a pair of Zs & will snag one sometime in the future but was hoping for a bit more info I guess
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10-26-2021, 01:00 PM
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It has been noted here plenty that they probably didn't get a ring time. They were tuning with bunch of other cars on track, and on some of the private days, a few crashes from other manufacturers ended the day early.
Weight (3434 dry in Z07 with Carbon Wheels) and TQ (460 at 6300 RPM) are in the press release.
EDIT:Fixed weight and sorry for dupe see it was posted as I was typing.
Weight (3434 dry in Z07 with Carbon Wheels) and TQ (460 at 6300 RPM) are in the press release.
EDIT:Fixed weight and sorry for dupe see it was posted as I was typing.
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10-26-2021, 01:03 PM
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10-26-2021, 01:03 PM
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Burning Brakes
As was discussed before..they experienced some terrible luck on the Ring with weather and crashes, having said that I am surprised they didn’t mention a “we are seeing a time of aprox…xxx” but I bet the car will be back there next season for a hero lap.
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10-26-2021, 01:06 PM
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Burning Brakes
For whatever it's worth, there were a few posts a while back that claimed they were unable to do an "official" timed lap on their last two days of testing at the ring, due to two separate bad accidents on day 1, (not involving the Corvettes themselves) and then day 2 being rained out.
I have no clue how accurate that info is, but it sucks if true.
EDIT: Just saw Aozora's post above, sorry for the dupe.
I have no clue how accurate that info is, but it sucks if true.
EDIT: Just saw Aozora's post above, sorry for the dupe.
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10-26-2021, 01:15 PM
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Meh, we need to collectively not care about Ring times.
Porsche and the German brands get a major bias there. They get all the track time in the world in the best conditions to pull off hero times.
We need VIR and Laguna Seca laps driven by Randy Pobst!!!!!
Porsche and the German brands get a major bias there. They get all the track time in the world in the best conditions to pull off hero times.
We need VIR and Laguna Seca laps driven by Randy Pobst!!!!!
10-26-2021, 01:18 PM
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They likely wouldn't use a pre-production car for 'Ring times anyway, and as far as we know that's all they've had there so far, so expecting Ring times at this reveal was setting yourself up for disappointment, IMO.
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10-26-2021, 01:22 PM
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Pricing is always later. Sometimes much later. So late in fact that production might start and pricing blank window stickers go on the first cars produced. Its happened in the past many times.
10-26-2021, 01:24 PM
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10-26-2021, 02:17 PM
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10-26-2021, 03:36 PM
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10-26-2021, 03:37 PM
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They tried but weather and traffic prevented the hero lap.. Maybe in the next week or two, otherwise March / April, but I’d prefer to see USA track laptimes.