GM coughs up 7m43s time for C6 Z06...
 

I'll post something before the monkey brigade comes rolling though.

Dave Hill, Chief ENgineer (basically Mr Modern Corvette) for the Corvette program announced last night that the official time GM is making public for the C6 Z06 is 7m43s for a flying lap pf the Nurburgring.

In a bizarre turn about he also announced the C6 time, as being 7m59s - yet it was he whom is accredited with announcing that the C6 time was 7m56s... so there you have the C6 time, amazingly slowing down by 3s after a year.

Interestingly this "3s" movement is the same amount by which the reported time is slower, than the first leaked 7m40s

So - which is it? The car is slower, GM can't operated a stop watch, Dave Hill is getting senile and can't remember shit from a couple weeks ago :P ;)

lol.. I have pretty good faith these times are correct only because from a context of whats been done to the cars they are the right ballpark. (ignoring whether the other car was a blue devil, which I doubt they are that far along with it personally).

With all respect but I rather listen Sportauto than carmanufacturs. BMW claim that the M5 can do it in 8 min but I could care less. That not the time Sportuato got.

Sport auto is a) not professional drivers.. b) haven't run the zo6.

Between the two I think youll have to settle for this for the time being.

hey now atleast there is an official time for the Z06 even if it is 3 secs slower than the actual time reported a few weeks ago it's still a damn good time and I'm sure they could shave a few secs off that time.

whats the problem? Its still damn fast...you boys are gonna go nuts over 3 sec?

No - I am going nuts over the fact that yet again, info from a GM source oddly slips anorther way.

For the longest time Dave Hill swore blind (well not quite - but he proudly announced it at a number of events) the C6 was a 7m56s lapper. Now he says it's a 7m59s lapper?

It is quite possible he mispoke - and if so ar we sure about anything else him and his crew have reported ;) :P

Anyway since when do you Americans care so much about how fast your car can go around some eurotrash circuit :lol: :wink:

Should be lapping at Daytona in that thing, not Nordschleife. :mrgreen:

Unfortunatly some marketing MBA (take note gray - just cause you know marketing doesn't mean you gonna know what's best for the product and enthusiasts :P) decided that the car needs to be dulled down and poofta-ed up to sell to the Porker and Beemer crowd over there. :P

The NS laps are to make the car better, the in dash ghetto pimp DVD and "brushed alloy" panels are to attract the eurocrats ;)

Sportauto use a professional driver. He been driving Rallye and racing cars for more than 20 years. He hold officiell the record for fastest sërieproduced car at the ring, Carrera GT. Sportauto and Horst von Saurma is wellknown around the world.

http://www.germancarfans.com/news.cf...porsche/1.html

No pro??? Your just fooling yourself.

... i´m 110% with u here - HvS is definitely among the top drivers and especially at NS...
furthermore he´s - or better said Sport Auto´s Supertest - the one and only accepted lap time source on NS and i´m definitely on the side of those saying "let´s wait for a SA time and then talk..."

it´s all about comparableness - what do we know about a "own" Porsche, BMW, MB, GM...... with "xy" as a driver ...!?

it´s surely nice talking about it but in the end at least german industry pool relies on SA and HvS and so do i... :wink:

^^ Just as long as you and don't ask HvS to "sand bag" and put in a slow 7m57s lap :P hehehe

Maybe they wanted to slow down the z06 so that when they release the "blue devil" time it'll stand out even more...?

Don't know why the c6 would suddenly get slower though...perhaps it's because a 6 is like a 9...but inverted :spaz:

Or maybe it's something to do with the tyres...7m40s with some sporty rubber, and 7m43s with the runflats?

Any scans and great review about Corvette C6 by Sportauto???

So RC, i just went a lurked a little on the z06vette forums...and some guy named andy seems to think that the "blue devil" laps in 7m40s, and the z06 7m43s. Apparently he's some kind of "insider"...and apparently he has been saying for a little while now that the z06 official time will be 7m43s...?