RAFTRACER

For those of you who knew that I flew to California last December to drive a '07 Z06 Corvette for GM, during taping of the show called Mean Machines, I found out that it will be airing for the first time tonight on Discovery Channel Canada @ 9:30. The show is a comparo test @ Willow Springs in California between a Corvette Z06 and a Ferrari. It was a great time for myself even though the production company was manipulating results to help the Ferrari ......they werent even on the same calender. Anywho it airs tonight for those in Canada to see.

I am not sure yet of Discovery Channel USA's air date, or if it even will. I will have a copy of it tomorrow morning and if they dont air it in the states maybe I can find someone to host it so everyone can see it. I am anxious to see if there were any other manipulations to the content at the studio.............. If you did not get the score, and just watched the video of the cars, you would know which car was kickin' hiny without the numbers.....

VetteDrmr

I can't find any reference to Mean Machines on either the Discovery or TLC channels.

RAFTRACER

Discovery Channel Canada is different than Discovery Channel USA unfortunately..............

69autoXr

Ok, who here is from Windsor and will tape it for me tonight? And then meet me at the bridge to exchange...

joemoia

Discovery Cn. schedule for the show:

http://www.exn.ca/onTv/episode.asp?e...=67309992&TZ=0

So Danny, have you submitted an application for next season's "Setup"?

RAFTeRACER

Maybe you could bring the tape and a six pack of Molson up for a private screening Dave, Dale, Meikin, and I could show you everything you did wrong!

Janet Curran

Danny,
I'm anxious to see this. You had it over him in every aspect of the "competition".

Janet

RAFTRACER

Kevin,
I am sure that we'll get together sometime soon.....I'll bring the DVD, you guys supply the beer............ I've got to go to Atlanta this weekend for my sisters wedding.

Miaugi

Thanks for the heads up...I just set the PVR to record it!

RAFTRACER

Tell me if I end up looking like a jackass so I can just burn the DVD when I get it tomorrow...........Sucks that I cant view it when you guys do, I've been waiting for 6 months Hell , its been so long I'll have to go and reference my origianl post just to remember exactly how it really happened.

Hopefully they show all of the tire smoke and mayhem that was created. It was a great time for sure.

RAFTRACER

Janet,
Thanks but having it "all over" that particular Ferrari/team was not that hard.......wish the gentleman with the 430 would have showed...chicken It certainly would have been alot closer, but we still know which car would have prevailed.

I'll try to get you a copy soon. I really appreciate the fact that you came out to help I may call you soon, my wife is needing a vacation....I suprise Spring Mountain school may be just what she needs...

Bink

Tux for RAFTRACER?

Passed your house couple nites ago on the way home. I told Samantha you were building a new garage. As I pointed it out she said "WOW, THAT'S A GARAGE!" She likes the esthetics. It looks GREAT.

Fast_Toys

I watched it tonight. It was ok. The corvette won 3-2 I believe. They had a few events like:

Acceleration
Braking
Peak G's on skidpad
Short road course
Longer Road Course

The Z06 won acceleration, short road course and long road course. The two road course wins were by a significant margin. The Ferrari team was quite humbled. At the beginning they were talking some serious trash about the Corvette being too heavy etc.

RAFTRACER

Yeah....The Ferrari won the braking contest...the last stop it made was from 30-40 feet before the thresh-hold braking point, and consequently that is how many feet better its last stop was. This was manipulated by the owner/driver of the Ferrari. The skid pad was manipulated by the production company.......The short course (autocross) was also manipulated by the production company, but by no where near enough. I think they eliminated about half of the margin . To my knowledge the acceleration test, and the long road course were the only tests that were un-molested by anyone and obviously were the most lop-sided results. But then the results went to the production studio....Can't wait too see if anything else was manipulated.
Additionally I "manipulated" something on the Z06 for the skid pad (thanks for the tools Janet ) , because of all of the manipulations by/for the Ferrari. During the skid pad practice the Z06 registered 1.2g lateral on the driftbox......Which is way higher than they are actually capable of. The production company had us practice to make sure they knew how to use the driftbox correctly, and somehow the Ferrari managed that same 1.2g's. The stop watches that my buddy George and Janet were using had the Ferrari slower around the pad. Funny how it all works out....television. I am a racer and like to win everything, GM was just happy to have the car on TV.....again.

Anxiously awaiting the Fed-Ex driver this morning.........

RogueVette

They could have added 500 more pounds and it would have been the same result. They got Popp'ed square in their big mouths.