While the rest of us were preparing for Christmas, these past few days Chevrolet was apparently busy putting a new-gen Corvette through its paces at the Nurburgring.
According to MuscleCarsAndTrucks, the mid-engine sports car posted a lap time of 7:28.30, yet since they didn’t say how they got this information, we’ll take it with the proverbial pinch of salt.
Still, in spite of being a couple of tenths of a second quicker than the Porsche Carrera GT, as per FastestLaps, and only half a second slower than the Porsche 911 GT3 RS and McLaren MP4-12C, it’s not the quickest Corvette at the German track.
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That title belongs to the Z06 C7, which posted an amazing 7:13.90 in the hands of SportAuto’s Christian Gebhardt. At 7:19.63, the ZR1 was also quicker, and so was the Z06 equipped with the Z07 Package, which ran across the finish line in 7:22.68. The Camaro ZL1 1LE did it in 7:16.04 and the Camaro Z/28 in 7:37.47.
Should they want to officially claim the Nurburgring lap record for production cars (all of the times posted above are unofficial), then Chevrolet needs to come out with an even more faster version of the C8 ‘Vette. The target is 6:44.95, a time set by the Lamborghini Aventador SVJ last summer, which managed to beat the Porsche 911 GT2 RS by more than 2 seconds.
The sub-7-minute time would be a truly amazing achievement for the rumored C8 ZR1, as only a few vehicles managed to do it, including the Lamborghini Huracan Performante, Porsche 918 Spyder and Radical SR8. The range-topping edition of the C8 is said to feature a twin-turbocharged V8, possibly with electrification, that should put out an amazing 900 HP – or 145 HP more then the C7 ZR1, so if that’s indeed the case, we guess it does have a shot at posting the outright Nordschleife record.
