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Interesting excerpt below from R&T.... so don't be too quick to just relegate the Z06 as having a hot head so to speak. :D

"I'm busy leading Team Viper. It's the fastest car here, the most demanding to drive and yet the most rewarding when it's pushed close to its limits. The learning curve is steep, true, but you'd feel really good about yourself when you reached the top. Chilton agrees: "Looks like a race car and feels like one. It's also the only car that felt like it could keep on lapping hour after hour."

Nothing mellow about this yellow: Z06 brings big power, big grip, big aero to track duty. That last is a pointed aside about the GT350R and Z06, which are showing some scary temperatures on their displays. That said, the Ford and Chevy are far more accessible to novices. "I can't believe how the Corvette harnesses so much horsepower with such ease," says Webster. "That's the real achievement here." Likewise with the Ford. If you owned the GT350R and the Viper, you'd be faster in the Mustang for a long time. Maybe forever, if the idea of using the steering wheel as a brake at triple-digit speeds doesn't appeal."
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Great job Ford! Great time to be an American car enthusiast!
 

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Saaaaaawwwweeeeeeeetttttt holy Jesus yes!!!! Praise God! That is one heckuva car!


Does anyone have the official final copy read on the Z06? Did it make it through? Would be nice to see why they parked it to the side in the photo.

That front cover looks like a yellow Lifhtning McQueen smile!!! Booyah!!!
 

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Amazing car interesting to read the last sentence which said the GT350 won by an overwhelming margin. Goes to show that you don't have to spend 200,000 to get something special on the road and track
 

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Maybe the slow 0-60 is a testament to the lack of low-end grunt. I don't care... On the track heading through the esses it won't matter when you're in 3rd gear revving 4K rpm and have another 4250 rpm to go.
 

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I'm trying to get a comparison number between this and the outgoing Z28. Does anyone know what time the Z ran on this same course?
 

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