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Originally Posted by Wondering
Thanks for the links.....a 7:35 puts that car in some very thin air performance wise. That's three seconds faster than the Lexus LFA did,and five seconds faster than the Ford GT. Not to mention eight seconds faster than the Z06.
But as you stated,how much of that car will actually make it to the showroom?? Who knows....
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There was a local guy (American) that attended the test days that owns a Boss 302 Laguna Seca. He claims to Ring the car in 7:45, he was not impressed with the GT500's performance. Also, all the cars you mentioned were older models, 2005 Z06, 2004 Ford GT and the LFA was only 560hp. I believe the two cars were going to be the SVT Performance Pack GT500 (black w/ blue strips) and a High end model such as an SVT FR500 (red). The red car had drilled rotors and someone said they were larger front and rear rotors. Both cars had a one piece bar but that was for drivers protection during testing. Team Corvette also modify the ZR1 to protect the driver in case of a crash.
Like I said on the other sites, the conditions were almost perfect. We had rain on Monday, Tuesday and a little bit on Wednesday. It was very cool with a little wind but nothing to hurt the cars performance. The traffic up there was almost non-existent so you can't ask for anything better than what they tested in other than a closed track (doesn't happen very often).
I had heard that Karl Geiger was up there but I didn't see him. I don't know if Americans know who he is but he is the top German tuner of American cars here in Germany and he is obsessed with the GT500. Every year since 2007, he has bought an imported a GT500 to tune and mod it. Pretty cool guy....