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hi all!
Just a quick note, and congratulations to our very own Ron Fellows. He Set a production car lap record at his home track, Canadian tire Motorsports park (mosport to most lol) of 1:22.12!
amazing run and amazing Z06, with zo7 package!
A very impressive time. The eye catching one for me is the listing of the Ferrari 312 PB time of Niki Lauda. I do like F1 history, and this was accomplished September 26, 1974 in chassis number 312B3/015. This was the second car built that season and won at Jarama and Zandfort before crashing out of the Canadian GP. Though Lauda did not finish he did have the fastest lap of the race. Emerson Fittipaldi did set a lap of 1:13:188 in qualifying in a Mclaren Ford for pole position. There were 30 cars in the field and the slowest qualifier was 1:17:305, indicating how fas those old F1 cars were. The 74 race was the only race that new F1 driver Helmuth Koi**** completed, it was his first start and he was killed at Watkins Glen on 6 October in the next race. Chassis 015 is in Austria now after longtime American ownership and was at Goodwood FOS in 2017 and 2018 A beautiful car, but a VERY small one. Bravery is required.
The performance available in a Z06/Z07 can at times approach what was possible in the F1 cars of the 1960's, which was a staggeringly brave place to be. A 1970's F1 car is even more crazy, and that the Z07 is about 5 to 10 seconds behind a 70's F1 car with a driver like Ron Fellows. Pretty amazing stuff, but at these speeds...everyone must be very careful. A great lap for the Z07.
Last edited by international blue; 07-08-2023 at 06:40 AM.
A very impressive time. The eye catching one for me is the listing of the Ferrari 312 PB time of Niki Lauda. I do like F1 history, and this was accomplished September 26, 1974 in chassis number 312B3/015. This was the second car built that season and won at Jarama and Zandfort before crashing out of the Canadian GP. Though Lauda did not finish he did have the fastest lap of the race. Emerson Fittipaldi did set a lap of 1:13:188 in qualifying in a Mclaren Ford for pole position. There were 30 cars in the field and the slowest qualifier was 1:17:305, indicating how fas those old F1 cars were. The 74 race was the only race that new F1 driver Helmuth Koi**** completed, it was his first start and he was killed at Watkins Glen on 6 October in the next race. Chassis 015 is in Austria now after longtime American ownership and was at Goodwood FOS in 2017 and 2018 A beautiful car, but a VERY small one. Bravery is required.
The performance available in a Z06/Z07 can at times approach what was possible in the F1 cars of the 1960's, which was a staggeringly brave place to be. A 1970's F1 car is even more crazy, and that the Z07 is about 5 to 10 seconds behind a 70's F1 car with a driver like Ron Fellows. Pretty amazing stuff, but at these speeds...everyone must be very careful. A great lap for the Z07.
Look how small that car is compared to today's F1 chassis'.
Is it me or does that car seem to shift a lot "crisper" than any other youtube video showcasing the z06?
Could it be that the youtubers who own or review the z06 are using manual mode in which makes the 3-4 shift very sluggish? As almost as it hesitates to go into gear?
This video is the first video i saw where the shifts were on point and very sharp.
It is wild how big todays cars are. That alone has ruined the Monaco GP
It may have ‘ruined’ the Monaco GP, but the new cars have certainly saved many a driver compared to the cars from 20 years ago. I loved them then, but would rather no one died or have their lower extremities ruined for life in a bad shunt, so am happy with the new cars.
A couple of observations concerning the car's performance while noting that Mr. Fellow's driving technique is obviously beyond reproach. First, he is in auto and the upshifts are occurring at approx. 8400 rpm with a drop to around 63-6400 rpm at the upshift. The Andretti straight has a significant uphill elevation change (approx. 160'). On the straight the acceleration in forth gear from 98 mph to 138 mph takes 8 seconds (all times and mph area are approx.). The shift from forth to fifth again drops the rpm to 6300, but acceleration from 138 to 156 mph takes another 8 seconds. My personal opinion, based on these observations, is that the rpm drop from 4th to 5th is not excessive; however, the slow acceleration in 5th gear appears to be a product of increasing aero drag as speed increases and the lack of "grunt" in a small cubic inch engine. If you look at the GM published torque curve, the torque decreases from 6300 to 8600 rpm. Uphill doesn't help.
Very cool to see. That’s about 4 seconds faster than his lap in the C7Z06. Factoring in tires, that’s roughly a solid 2 second improvement over the c7? Nicely done.
That's a very interesting track! A lot of fast sweepers with elevation change. Looks like fun!
It is amazing. I got to drive it back in the late 1990's in my Supra TT running larger DOT track tires, open exhaust and track brake pads. It is great fun to drive. Back then they did not have all the turn 2 run-off paved, it was just grass before you hit the tire wall hard. It was considered the most dangerous corner in North American road courses. Turn 4 and the turn at the end of the straight were also much fun.
Ron did the C8Z proud as he did as a Corvette factory race driver.
… new F1 driver Helmuth Koi**** completed, it was his first start and he was killed at Watkins Glen on 6 October in the next race. …”
Just got back from a track day / old car club reunion celebrating the 70th birthday of one of our members - a guy originally from upstate New York who was at that race and saw that crash. He said it looked like something broke.
BTW, one of the Corvette Forum members, 555ctsv (Kenneth) was also at our track day - at Eagles Canyon Raceway - in his red, 1600 mile C8 Z06. No words to describe how sweet that car sounds in its natural environment.
07-07-2023, 09:12 PM
Ron Fellows breaks lap record at CTMP!
