your the king of assumptions, considering i didnt agree, but you are posting that i did.If ford hasnt posted a time, it doesnt count. Dont you know how this works?
The real time to look forward to are VIR and laguna seca. Gt500 will not be within 2 seconds of the viper on either track, membership bet
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Maybe when you get time off this place you can actually drive the gt500 at the track you seem so keen on defending. But I bet you're nothing but a waxer. LOL
But you dont even own a viper.
True, I wonder why that time isnt posted?
Either way the gt500 isnt going to clock a 2:42 at VIR, got a membership bet with v00d00 who is using a stopwatch from 1 perspective video.
Exactly, and theres people here that think this car is as quick as a ford gt on a road course. They're using the repaved grattan video as evidence that this car will compete.Ford should post the official time and share their miracle technology with the entire world because whatever they did to that 4200 lbs rwd car with 315’s running faster times than a 3300 lbs Viper ACR with 355’s, especially on a small track like that, deserves a Nobel prize and a key achievement in the history of automobile technology.
I like the zr1 and want one. But I will root for the ACR before a ZR1, even if I owned a ZR1. This is the vette to get till the c8 z06.Ahhh your precious ZR1:
"Spy photographers spotted Chevy testing itsmost-powerful factory Corvette ever, the ZR1, on the Nürburgring Nordschleife on numerous occasions last year. Yet, we never received an official lap time.
The answer is likely because, well, it's rather disappointing. According to a Facebook post from retired Corvette test driver, Jim Mero, the Chevy Corvette ZR1 hustled its way around the Green Hell in a quick but not record-challenging 7:04. That's slower than what the Corvette team hoped for, which was a sub-7-minute run."
Time will tell, but I think the 2019 ZR1 will run rings around the c8 Zo6.
An enigma.. I've never seen and real ACR on the street.
Kind of a waste. That car is all about the road course.
https://www.hotrod.com/articles/202...tNOMzGLLpGJF014wuWN2ABdiCZgGTfRT85FypFsjxcxxQThe GT500’s cooling system is complex, utilizing six heat exchangers — engine coolant, supercharger intercooler, engine oil cooler, transmission oil cooler, auxiliary high-temp radiator and A/C condenser — and a 600-watt electric fan to keep the car cool enough to keep lapping until the car or its driver runs out of fuel.
After spending so much time beating on this car, Ford Performance engineers have a soft spot for it. They nicknamed it after a famous race car driver, but for our purposes they called it Jeff’s Car, in deference to engineer Jeff Grauer’s dedication to keeping it in tip-top shape. He did so in part by following the same scheduled maintenance procedures recommended in the owner’s manual.
“And in order to deliver the level of track sustainability so that you can go out, drive it hot for a session, come back in put gas in it, right back around and go out. That’s the level of capability we wanted to deliver with this car,” Keith said. “And that’s what it does. The reason I get out of the car is because I need something to eat or something to drink or whatever. You know, I don’t get out of the car because at the track we run five-points (harnesses) and it takes a few minutes to get all that stuff on. So, we’ll have somebody come to the gas pump, fill it up and go right back out.”
Because fastest laps is a joke, just like lightning lap. Bit worse. Because they post a "GT350R" laptime from the ring, when a GT350R never went to the Ring with Ford. #fakenews just like HPFreaks who made the whole thing up.
I've seen an ACR at a track day and it was insane fast. I have a hard time believing that the GT500 could be in that ballpark with roughly 800-900 pounds of additional weight and without the ridiculous amount of aero and tire that the ACR has, but I guess we'll see eventually. It would be an amazing feat of engineering if so.
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Those photos are nearly 10 years old.... I looked at Grattan raceway’s Facebook and found this picture from April of 2010.. Look familiar?
