Corvette ZO6 on the 'Ring

[gregvl52]

it's a fully race prepped car.
It is NOT cheap

Not pouring cold water on the good time, but just gentle reminder that comparing apples and oranges doesn't help opinion.

I'll agree that the time would make it seem to be a fully prepped race car, but where are you getting this information from?

[henk4]

what is the magazine?

The magazine is Auto Bild, it also shows a picture of the car (blue) fitted with what look pretty much non standard rims and tyres. Sport Auto will publish a supertest of the C6 next month, which may give a better impressionof the potential of a non-prepped car

[furious_fiero]

Where is a good source to find times of the 'ring?

[CdocZ]

Wooooooaaaaaaaah. Even if that is not normal, that's still f***ing GOOD! Dear God, and it only costs $70,000.....I'll have to buy a used one when I'm older!

[my porsche]

ok heres the plan, we chip in, buy a house in munchen, buy a z06 and a 996 turbo s, and take turns racing eachother everyweekend? whos in?

[CdocZ]

Me. And here is filler-typing because "me." is too short for a post.

[henk4]

ok heres the plan, we chip in, buy a house in munchen, buy a z06 and a 996 turbo s, and take turns racing eachother everyweekend? whos in?

In europe a Z06 will probably cost 150,000 US$

[my porsche]

we import it under the moniker track vehicle, and we save 50%

[Niko_Fx]

Here we go, finally found the article...

http://www.autocar.co.uk/News_Article.asp?NA_ID=216013

The bad thing is that every single forum out there has kids believing that a regular C6 Z06 got a better time than a Pagani Zonda

I shall deliver the news!! *Hops on horse and rides towards the M boards*

[SIMPLETON]

ok, more proof of Jan Magnussen's testing of the Z06 at the Nurgurgring. Official time is 7'42.9. Heres a translation from Bilmagasinet:

Thursday morning, Southern Germany. General Motors have discreetly rented the legendary german Nürburgring track for an hour between 7 and 8 in the morning.
The temperature is more comfortable than at Le Mans, and the track is empty apart from a couple of early rising spy photographers.
It takes more than a blue Vette to exite them - they recognize it, it´s the Z06 version, the brutal Vette with 500 BHP. What they do not know, is that it´s Jan Magnussen behind the wheel.
The objective is to beat Walther Rörhl´s laptime in a Porsce GT3 RS - it´s 7:43,0 min for the 20,8 km heavily varied track with 73 corners.
The record was set in 2004 in a standard version of the Porsche.


Jan made 7:42,9 thereby beating the Porsche GT3 RS by 0,1 sec.



"The photo is taken at Flugplatz. I´m going 240-250 km/h at full throttle in 4th gear and the car is actually jumping twice: After the first jump it lands so hard that it takes off again, as you can see in the second picture. As it lands the second time I have to take a sharp right immediately after.
The car is a standard car with street setup - had it been my racer it would hardly have left the tarmac. At NBR the street car reaches 295 km/h on the long straight in 5th gear (6th gear is an overgear for saving gasoline). At NBR there are no run-off areas like other tracks,. You simply have to stay on the track. When you are halfway around the 20 km, you think it´s a good thing there are only half as many places left you risk running off the track" Jan says.


"The street Corvette has virtually no grip compared to my race car which has a large rear spoiler. But it does have almost as many BHPs as my Le Mans racer and is almost as fast. The rev limiter sets in at 7000 rpms, and it does have more than 500 BHPs.
It's fast.At the record attempt I drove 2 x 2 laps with a cooldown lap inbetween for both mine and the car´s sake.
I couldn´t have driven one single lap more. I wouldn´t have liked to drive a single meter (3 feet) more with myself at the wheel at that speed", Jan finishes.

[IWantAnAudiRS6]

That looks very, VERY shifty- check out the shot on the right at the bottom. It would be nicer (and more impressive) if GM just made the standard road car go round in a very quick time.