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Old 10-14-2013, 08:08 PM   #49
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Drives: 2012 ZL1 #141
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Originally Posted by Camaro_Corvette View Post
Bad weather run...:/

My hats off to the driver as well. Holy crap I certainly would have slowed down at some points.
No kidding! The thing is, this certainly was not the only lap they ran, but still the fastest. If you read the Chevy press release on the Z28-

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Originally Posted by media.chevrolet.com
While the new Camaro Z/28 is not intended to compete in a specific race series, it is solely focused on track capability. In initial testing, the Camaro Z/28 is three seconds faster per lap than the Camaro ZL1. That extra speed comes from three areas:
they actually surpassed this claim by .8 seconds. I actually thought they were referring to VIR, but I don't know.

The car will be truly awesome for track rats. I still think it also speaks to how much a marvel the ZL1 is, to run such a close time with all the amenities it has (I am clearly biased lol).

The interesting time would be from second, third etc. consecutive laps where heat soak would be an issue for the ZL1.
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