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Originally Posted by Bhobbs
I think a C7 wide body with an n/a engine around 530 hp would have been a lethal track car you can run all day. The GS Z07 is within 2 seconds of the Z06 around MRC, despite the hp disparity, if the times I could find are right. With the extra power, it probably would have been much closer. That may be why GM didn't add any. During the H2H between the Z06 and ACR, they said multiple times the Z06 is very hard to drive at the limit. Maybe 650 hp is too much for the C7 platform.
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One of the articles mentioned it was within a second of the C6 ZR1, as well.
Maintaining speed around a track is far more important for lap times than the power required to accelerate around it...and this package (and the 1LE, for that matter) would seem to prove this.