Cammisa's Ultimate Drag Race Replay

[HobieMarty]

https://youtu.be/aXdwnA7RyZ0

This is so cool.
Side Note: in another thread I posted about only liking the older Corvettes. I hereby modify my statement and would like to add the one in this video as one of my new favorite Corvettes.

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[pwd72s]

That was fun...thanks. Don't worry about seeing one of these 'Vettes if you have a GT3...very long wait from ordering and getting one...unless you know somebody.

[sc_rufctr]

Great video and that Corvette! WOW

[Racerbvd]

WoW!!!!

[JackDidley]

Wow, redundant I know. Makes me wish I was not poor.

[pavulon]

Why would someone with a GT3 worry about seeing a Z06? Do people with Mustangs worry about seeing a Camaro? Do Catholics worry about seeing Lutherans? Sharks/Jets? Innies/outies?

[billybek]

[GH85Carrera]

As an American, I love to see Corvette actually at the top of the game. Way less money than the other cars in that class, and faster to boot. Only the Tesla Plaid is faster for a dealer delivered street car for a 1/4 mile run.

Of course we all want to see it at the Nürburgring Nordschleife times to see just how fast the car is as a package. Acceleration is a big important step, but brakes and handling as a package is paramount. Right now the AMG Mercedes Black One is the fastest, and even outperformed the GT3RS in the street car class.

Chevrolet seems to avoid the Nürburgring Nordschleife as the times for the Corvette is from 2017 and it was a magazine doing the testing.

All in all, I agree, wow for the Corvette. Cool American car.

[masraum]

Corvettes have been impressive (bang for your buck) for a while now, and they keep getting more impressive (regardless of price).

[Sooner or later]

I'll take all four.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Sooner or later

I'll take all four.

Make my audi the coupe that they were talking about. And I'll skip the Duck. I've never ridden a motorcycle. I'm sure that I'd love it. I'm not going to start now. I don't trust myself, and I think I've missed the boat on learning to ride. But more than anything else, I don't trust everyone else.

[javadog]

If only Corvette could hire some designers from Ferrari or Lamborghini and quit building cars that look like they were styled by a fifth grader. Oh, and let’s make it a rule that the GM CEO has no vote on which styling proposal to pursue.

Great performance but I could never own one because it’s so effing ugly.

[astrochex]

Originally Posted by javadog

If only Corvette could hire some designers from Ferrari or Lamborghini and quit building cars that look like they were styled by a fifth grader. Oh, and let’s make it a rule that the GM CEO has no vote on which styling proposal to pursue.

Great performance but I could never own one because it’s so effing ugly.

This is where I'm at too. Especially the aft end of the car, it is bulky and boring. Why does Chevy stop designing when it comes to the rear?

[javadog]

I think the ass end is way too busy, the tail lights are hideous.

There’s always something wrong with each Corvette generation. Bad styling, bad interior, bad suspension, always something.

I think I am now past the point of ever buying one.

[herr_oberst]

Originally Posted by astrochex

This is where I'm at too. Especially the aft end of the car, it is bulky and boring. Why does Chevy stop designing when it comes to the rear?

They don't stop designing, they have to design around the corporate edict that the Corvette has to be able to carry golf clubs.

By the way, the engine in that car is incredible. The engineers that worked on that thing are true car guys and they're smart af.

[Jeff Higgins]

I wish they would have finished the lap. I bet it would have been the GT3, followed by the ZO6, then the Audi, with the Ducati a very distant last. Even with its championship winning rider.

[slow&rusty]

Kudos to GM, making a world class supercar.
There is some brilliant engineering happening in Detroit these days, thankfully, as the '70s through to the '90s were some dark times.

[javadog]

Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins

I wish they would have finished the lap. I bet it would have been the GT3, followed by the ZO6, then the Audi, with the Ducati a very distant last. Even with its championship winning rider.

Nope. I don’t know which car would’ve finished first but the motorcycle would’ve smoked all of them.

I took a look at times set at Laguna Seca, a tight twisty track that should favor the cars over the bike. This year’s fast time for a 1000 superstock class bike, which is where that bike would be, was one minute 26.1 seconds. And that’s with a less capable rider than Josh Herrin. That’s faster than any street car you’ve ever heard of at that track. All of the real high-end stuff (McLaren P1, Porsche 918, etc. ) is at least two seconds slower, cars like what was in that drag race are 4 to 6 seconds slower. Most of the times I looked at were set by Randy Pobst, one of the drivers in the drag race.

Josh Herrin’s fastest lap at that track is a one minute 22.9, set in 2018 on a super bike. At that track, superbikes tend to run 2 to 3 seconds faster than the superstock bikes, for a given rider.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins

I wish they would have finished the lap. I bet it would have been the GT3, followed by the ZO6, then the Audi, with the Ducati a very distant last. Even with its championship winning rider.

The bike is the very top class go fast machine for motorcycles. Kinda like a F1 car for cars. And a F1 car would finish so far ahead in one lap the driver could get out and have a drink before the motorcycle finished.

[rfuerst911sc]

Kudos to GM and the performance they get out of the Corvette . In regards to styling GM has bean counters just like Porsche .