[Orange Crush 1LE]

I'm sorry but Tadge was sugar coating it, no way they met their design requirements. The C7 ZO6 cannot handle continuos driving around a typical road course at 86 F by a pro driver. The C7 ZO6 has not been able to run at Laguna Seca nor Buttonwillow with normal Joes behind the wheel in mid-60s ambient temp for more than a few laps without overheating. When I tracked at Buttonwillow a week ago, my friend's ZO6 overheated and went into limp mode after three or four laps. This was in the cool morning session in the 60s. His gauges are hard to read but he thinks oil was over 300 and water over 260 F. After going into limp mode and then having to back off in the next session, he short shifted at 5,000 RPM for the rest of the day. Meanwhile, I saw a max of 221 F water and 244 F oil in the Viper. We were the two fastest cars of the weekend so we were driving them hard, but neither of us are as fast as a pro. Same thing at Laguna Seca a couple months ago. In high 60s ambient, a C7 ZO6 went into limp mode mid-session with 267 F water and 309 F oil. It puked all of its coolant out in the paddock. Totally unacceptable. Very disappointed in GM for releasing the ZO6 like this.