The 2019 Corvette ZR1 has been filmed lapping the demanding Nurburgring Nordschleife in Germany.
It seems General Motors itself was testing the ZR1 at the Nurburgring, as the car was fitted with a Michigan manufacturer’s license plate. The Nurburgring was also recently closed down for industry pool testing, which is when the world’s automakers bring out their latest products to test on the fast and undulating 12.9-mile circuit.
Corvette chief engineer Tadge Juechter has already said his team would like to lap the Nordschleife in under seven minutes with its 755 hp ZR1. Chevy hopes to have completed the sub-seven minute lap shortly after the car goes on sale this spring, so it’s likely that Chevy was gathering data with this test car in preparation for the actual lap.
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When you take delivery of a 2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1, you’ll want to be sure it makes all of the power that Chevy claims is on tap. For the record, that would be 755 horsepower and 715 pound-feet of torque. YouTuber StreetSpeed717 recently snagged what he claims is the fourth ZR1 off the Bowling Green assembly line and the first with a manual transmission. His first stop with his power-crazed coupe? A local race shop with its very own dyno.
Race Proven Motorsports of New Castle, Delaware, has performed work on a number of vehicles belonging to StreetSpeed717 (aka Mike). The crew has a camo-wrapped Z06 making ZR1-like numbers, but now Mike has the actual ZR1 as well. In this video, the Race Proven Motorsports guys hook it up to the dyno to see just how closely its actual numbers compare to the advertised figures.
The 11-plus minute video isn’t all dyno results. Skip
