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Originally Posted by quagmire
He goes to note that there was a strong headwind on the big straight and everything was stock except for communication and safety equipment.
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the time is incredible since it's a car w/ a base price of 100K and given that it was done by an engineer and not a highly-skilled test driver, expect that time to drop when a top-level driver takes a crack at it. Also, it wasn't a "ringer" car with things added to it like special cup tires or race gas or suspension tweaks just to get a good ring time. It was a stock car on stock tires, and stock tune running on pump gas. You drive this car off the street onto the track, get at 7:2X ring time, pass the finish line and drive it home.
I read in a Corvette magazine that during an interview they got one of the designers to finally admit what car they were targeting with the ZR1 in terms of performance benchmarks, it's the Carrera GT.