Attach and watch on -board videos from the five record laps
February 11, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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- The Corvette ZR1 begins production later this year with five new tour records to its credit.
- They were placed in Watkins Glen, Road America, Road Atlanta and Virginia International Raceway.
- Four different pilots were used to define the records, with Dashcam images published for all.
The Chevrolet C8 Corvette ZR1 is not even available to dealerships yet, but it already rewrites records. This 1,064 horsepower American supercar has now broken five history, proving that its performance is not only about media – is the real matter. And if you were not already convinced, the Dashcam sequences of these record laps will leave no doubt.
General Motors did not collapse when he fixed these times on the turn, but we will go to the order he mentioned starting with Watkins Glen. More specifically, the ZR1 set the record on the long course there with a time of 1: 52.7 and Bill Wise at the wheel. He is the main performance engineer on the ZR1 and clearly knows the car well.
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Then, Road America, where Brian Wallace piloted the ZR1 at a time of a bubblerflant 2: 08.6. It is more than five complete seconds faster than the previous record, held by a Porsche 911 GT3 RS. If people from Germany were not already concerned about the ZR-1, this will probably do the trick.
In Road Atlanta, the ZR1 kicked another Porsche, the 911 GT2 RS of the upper failure with a round of 1: 22.8 seconds. It was exactly two seconds faster than the Porsche did not do it in 2019. Chris Barber, the project engineer of the project was driving who will be at the game shortly.
Finally, the Chevrolet team established two other records at the Virginia International Raceway on the full course and the big course. On the first, he had a time of turn of 1: 47.7. According to Faststlaps.com, which measures almost 10 seconds faster than the second fastest time, located in a Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 of 1: 56.30.
Then, the ZR1 continued to break the record of the Tour of McLaren Senna on the big course with a time of 2: 32.3. The two Vir recordings came to the hands of Aaron Link, which means that these five recordings were fixed by four different drivers. If this does not demonstrate how versatile the ZR1 is, few others cannot.
In particular, the ZR1 in question is a pre-production model equipped with the ZTK package which includes several aerodynamic carbon fiber parts such as a rear wing, a gurney lip and diving plans. It also operates the Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2R ZP tires. The production of the flagship sports car Chevy is starting later this year and the dealers will begin to take orders later this month.
