"Blue Devil" News: Test Details Roll In

[UnoMOTO]

Maybe I should remove it then?

 

[mustangGT90210]

They butchered it

 

[Dave A]

They looks tacky and naff, it goes like stink, but it looks bad. The standard Z06 is much more tastefull in design.

 

[Jim Prower]

Wonder how they're building the engine?



Damn, is this one serious-looking piece of machinery.

 

[YSSMAN]

It looks like the ZR1 Engineers Met Their Goal...

Tadge J. Juechter, Corvette's chief engineer, announced this morning that Jim Mero, GM's development engineer, drove the ZR1 around the Nurburgring in 7:26.4. According to the GMNext blog, the run took place earlier this morning and that conditions were good on the track, with the exception of a strong headwind down the main straight. Mero mentioned that he felt there were a few places where he could have gone faster, although no details were provided about why and where.

Juechter makes it clear that the ZR1 that lapped the 'Ring was instock trim, with the exception of safety and communications equipment. As such, the ZR1 was wearing the same Michelin Pilot Sport 2s found on the production model, the chassis alignment and vehicle height were set to factory specs and the unmodified engine was running on pump gas.

The lap began with a rolling start – which falls in line with current industry practices – and the time was confirmed both through an electronic timing system and two hand-held stopwatches. The ZR1 team will be posting a video of their run when they return from Germany and we'll be keeping our eye out for it when it's online the week of July 7th.

As always, that is a *claimed* time... But nevertheless, it is rather fast. Looking forward to the video!

 

[Tornado]

ZOMG, TEH GTR IS ALMOST FASTERER! TEH V-SPEC WILL DO SUM PWNAGE.

And so on and so forth.

 

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

ZOMG, TEH GTR IS ALMOST FASTERER! TEH V-SPEC WILL DO SUM PWNAGE.

And so on and so forth.

How about:
The lap time doesn't count, the car had a roll-cage, etc. etc.

 

[nd 4 holden spd]

How about:
The lap time doesn't count, the car had a roll-cage, etc. etc.

How about anyone with that line of thinking goes and drives a 600+hp RWD car themselves around Nurburgring without safety. If anything, according to the article, it can go quicker.

 

[mustangGT90210]

How about anyone with that line of thinking goes and drives a 600+hp RWD car themselves around Nurburgring without safety. If anything, according to the article, it can go quicker.

How bout they try getting the car around the track. Period.

 

[Onikaze]

Roll cage?

Safety Equipment is a vague term dude, a fire extinguisher and a stick on plastic bobble-head Jesus could be called Safety Equipment (HELLFIRE AND DAMNATION!) easily enough.

 

[nd 4 holden spd]

And neither of those will stop the roof from caving in on your head when you roll it at 250km/hr. If anything, the bobble-head Jesus will help to kill you, as it may be considered blasfamous.

 

[Casio]

The GTR is almost faster.

So the V-Spec will be quicker.

 

[nd 4 holden spd]

The GTR is almost faster.

So the V-Spec will be quicker.

Well considering he had a head-wind on the main straight, and the driver said he himself could have gone faster too, there's no stopping the ZR1 from breaking under 2'25.

 

[Casio]

Well considering he had a head-wind on the main straight, and the driver said he himself could have gone faster too, there's no stopping the ZR1 from breaking under 2'25.

If it did the ring in 2:25 I'd be slightly impressed to say the least.

 

[nd 4 holden spd]

If it did the ring in 2:25 I'd be slightly impressed to say the least.

Well at 2'26 it's not far off. Let's hope GM are serious and wait for perfect conditions and take a real crack at it

 

[Casio]

I give up.

 

[CDailey]

 

[YSSMAN]

We're pretty much at the limits of what the Y-Body can handle, so my estimation is that we could see fractions of a second removed if they ran again... But for the sake of arguement, I don't see GM re-testing the ZR1 again. They met their goal, and they're well aware that the GT-R isn't much faster than the Z06... So they'll run the C6.5 chassis cars for another three years and try again with the C7.

No big deal, really...

 

[nd 4 holden spd]

So Chevy don't foresee that the the V-Spec is set to take that time down? They don't see that's what the ZR-1 will be compared to? If the driver thinks he can go faster, and this was an unofficial lap right? Well they do at least still have to do an official lap right?

 

[niky]

7:26 is 4 seconds faster than the latest GT-R time, but about 1 second adrift of the supposed V-Spec mule (lap time completely unconfirmed). It must go faster... but that's still an awesome time.... faster than the last Zonda time, isn't it? Though the Zonda's time wasn't in ideal conditions, either.

Wonder if we're going to see these bad boys start hitting 7:20 flat?

 

[nd 4 holden spd]

7:26 is 4 seconds faster than the latest GT-R time, but about 1 second adrift of the supposed V-Spec mule (lap time completely unconfirmed). It must go faster... but that's still an awesome time.... faster than the last Zonda time, isn't it? Though the Zonda's time wasn't in ideal conditions, either.

Wonder if we're going to see these bad boys start hitting 7:20 flat?

7'20 flat?! I wouldn't be surpised if Honda's new NSX surprises just like the last one did, but 7'20 flat would be blindingly quick.

 

[Jim Prower]

I'd ask what Lauda's '79 F1 time on the 'Ring was, but I then realized that's for the combined circuit.

 

[forza2.0]

ring times are now becoming meaningless. Great.

 

[Tornado]

Becoming? That implies meaning at one point in the past.

 

[Diego440]

Well considering he had a head-wind on the main straight, and the driver said he himself could have gone faster too, there's no stopping the ZR1 from breaking under 2'25.

If it did the ring in 2:25 I'd be slightly impressed to say the least.

Well at 2'26 it's not far off. Let's hope GM are serious and wait for perfect conditions and take a real crack at it

I give up.

I just found the string of posts I'll nominate for best post of the year at the next GTP awards.

 

[niky]

Becoming? That implies meaning at one point in the past.

+1

But no, it's not that serious. Basically, a good 'ring time means you've got a really quick or good handling car... or both. It's worth trying to build a car that's capable of a good ring time, but "record breaking" has always been moot and academic, since "production", "street legal" and "street car" are such vague descriptors that none of these times actually counts as an outright record in any books... just a record that people generally accept as the quickest for a car that you'd actually buy primarily to drive on the street.

 

[nd 4 holden spd]

I just found the string of posts I'll nominate for best post of the year at the next GTP awards.

I didn't get it, he gives up on me or pretends to be Chevy giving up?

 

[McLaren]

I didn't get it, he gives up on me or pretends to be Chevy giving up?

Take a second glance at the time, and then take a closer glance at the track that Casio posted. He was far from seriousness.

 

[Diego440]

I think Casio was serious...

If it did the ring in 2:25 I'd be slightly impressed to say the least.

 

[nissan tuner]

I just found the string of posts I'll nominate for best post of the year at the next GTP awards.

i second that motion