Hot Laps: 2009 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 @ Virginia International Raceway - Car and Driver

Lightning Lap 2009: We take the Corvette ZR1 for a hot lap around VIR.

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[CaptainSlow8]

@coolerdude44

I would love a gallardo or a 430. But I will be lucky if I can afford a ZR1 let alone these $200,000 supercars.

And I'm sorry that Europe has to put huge taxes and duties on the price of the ZR1 just so the European cars have a chance of competing. Because if you look at the American prices, it's hard to beat the performance per dollar of the ZR1

[mtross70]

zr1: thrashing europes finest for 100k. great job by GM! corvettes are lap hounds

[triplexxxsatyr]

American LeMans Series has added VIR to its schedule.

Whoo hoo!

[GTIEdition35]

"Yes, I'd like mine in Torch Red, please?"

[GTIEdition35]

"Yes, I'd like mine in Torch Red, please?"

[HelimanZ06]

@fadethetrade Just goes to show that LOOKS can be deceiving. In fact the $152,000 GT3 RS was 2.5 seconds slower than the Z06 and costs $55,000 MORE! Can't wait to see how well the Vette does at VIR on the new Pilot Sport Cup tires. They have resulted in a dramatic improvement of the Nurburgring lap times. (The GT3 RS has come stock with Pilot Sport Cup tires for years and years.)

[fadethetrade]

The porsche gt3 looked much more stable and just as fast,in their other video.Porsche is the winner for practical supercars.

[HelimanZ06]

@joshua626 One Mo thing ...

The 2011 Shelby GT500 was tested with the new Goodyear G2 tires developed specifically for that car. They are pretty sticky and are comparable to the Michelin PS2 tires. The time you quoted for the Z06 was with the old Goodyear tires which pretty much suck.

The 2012 Z06 are available with the new Michelin Pilot Sport Cup tires. To give you an idea how they perform search for 2012 ZR1 and Z06 on the Nurburgring. Both cars were driven by Jim Mero.

[HelimanZ06]

@joshua626 A proper comparison would to let Jim Mero spend the day at VIR driving a Corvette set up by Pratt and Miller and publish his best time. Both cars should be run on the same day.

You simply can't compare professional drivers with amatures or stock showroom vehicles to those set up by racing teams, especially if they are run at different times of year under different track conditions.