The Chevrolet C8 Corvette Z06 is one of the most talked-about supercars of the past two years but is it quick enough or powerful enough to outsprint a mainstay of the junior supercar category, the Lamborghini Huracan?
Brooks from the DragTimes channel on YouTube recently pitted his Huracan Tecnica alongside a friend’s Corvette Z06 to find out. On paper, the two cars match up quite well and in ideal conditions, both can sprint down the quarter-mile in the mid-10-second range. Providing the Tecnica with its motivation is a 5.2-liter naturally-aspirated V10 with 631 hp and 417 lb-ft (565 Nm) of torque driving the rear wheels. By comparison, the 5.5-liter all-motor V8 of the Corvette Z06 generates 670 hp and 460 lb-ft (623 Nm).
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In the first race, the driver of the Z06 slightly jumped the start but even still, the Lamborghini was able to keep pace with the Corvette off the line and eventually pass it as the speeds started to build. The Italian stallion crossed the line in 10.5 seconds compared to the 11.1-second time of the Z06.
The second race is much tighter. Both the Chevy and the Lambo rocket off the line, proving that you don’t need forced induction or all-wheel drive to have a supercar capable of incredible acceleration. The Huracan narrowly took the victory, completing the quarter-mile in 10.53 seconds at 130.62 mph (210.2 km/h) compared to the 10.56 seconds at 128.10 mph (206.1 km/h) of the Corvette.
Things didn’t go quite so well for the Corvette in the third and final race as it lost traction off the line and ultimately ran a 10.995-second quarter mile compared to the 10.451 of the Huracan.