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Video: Corvette ZR1 laps Nurburgring in 7:26

Car News, Corvette, Supercar News, Videos — By on July 11, 2008 at 12:27 am — 5 Comments

Corvette ZR1 laps nurburgring in 7:26

Two weeks after the Corvette ZR1 with GM development engineer Jim Mero behind the wheel lapped the Nurburgring Nordschleife in 7:26,4, General Motors released the video of the record-lap. A lot of people doubted the real laptime of the Corvette ZR1 and although a video is still manipulative evidence, we think the Corvette ZR1′s laptime is certainly legit. What do you think?

  • iuasbdkj

    i think it’s a fake, no american car can drive like that, its blasphemy. american cars suck!

  • fizzer

    Shaved tires are generally not shaved below the DOT requirements for legal tread depth. Typical shaving is usually done to 4/32nds of an inch. Lower than that would actually be a detriment to performance as the remaining tread would overhead quickly.

    As for the fuel, it depends. Unleaded, high-octane fuel can certainly be street legal. I doubt leaded fuel would be used in a stock production engine.

  • CEMan

    I hear both cars were running shaved tires and racing fuel. Not really ‘Street Legal’ eh?

  • dave

    the trick, of course, is to do this and have a company that’s not on the verge of bankruptcy.

  • Terabass

    This thing doing 26.4 on nurburgring is raping german cars on their own home base so badly that USA might as well have invaded germany all over again.

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