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Old Oct 28, 2008 | 09:12 PM
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Makes a lot more sense. Still didn't quite edge out the ACR, but it's more realistic for the power to weight and nature of that car:

Back at the Nürburgring, the hot Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1 has just ripped four seconds off its claimed 7:26 lap. The new time, with Jan Magnussen at the wheel, is a claimed 7:22.4 for the full 12.93-mile loop. While the number is pretty bloody fast, it is still .3 seconds off the time earned by the Dodge Viper ACR (ouch, those three tenths really have to hurt!). We take these lap times with a grain of salt, as we've yet to see everyone on the 73-turn course under the same conditions, and with officially certified timing equipment. Again, so you don't have to Google the competition's best-claimed Ring times yourself, here they are: Porsche GT2 - 7:32, Nissan GT-R - 7:29, Corvette ZR1 - 7:22.4 and the Dodge Viper ACR - 7:22.1.
http://www.autoblog.com/2008/10/28/c...off-ring-time/
Old Oct 28, 2008 | 09:17 PM
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Sick. You'll trip out. I went to the chevy dealer today, because theres a zr-1 in stock WOW. And i came online to post about it, and saw this thread and tripped out.
Old Oct 28, 2008 | 09:25 PM
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damn....4 seconds is a **** load of time, i forsee anthoer 2 seconds coming off as the driver learns the course
Old Oct 28, 2008 | 09:27 PM
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I can't wait to see one of these show up at the track
Old Oct 28, 2008 | 09:31 PM
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Originally Posted by USMCrebel
damn....4 seconds is a **** load of time, i forsee anthoer 2 seconds coming off as the driver learns the course

i'm pretty sure Jan Magnussen knows what he's doing (he's a factory Corvette racer)
Old Oct 28, 2008 | 09:45 PM
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Two American cars sitting on top of the Nurburgring?

Lmao.


The irony..
Old Oct 28, 2008 | 09:52 PM
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Originally Posted by MrRogers
Two American cars sitting on top of the Nurburgring?

Lmao.


The irony..

My thoughts exactly. Some of those guys with the exotics must be drowning themselves in a thimble of Port, talking about how therir car has more racing heritage or something like that.
Old Oct 28, 2008 | 10:13 PM
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How many years have the Viper and Vette been in production?
The Mustang is comin up on it's wut...
45th year?
Damn that's a long time...

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Old Oct 28, 2008 | 10:28 PM
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the Vette's been around since '53, the Viper since '92 iirc
Old Oct 28, 2008 | 10:33 PM
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Wow...
The Vette's older than the Stang...
Didn't know that...
I thought the Stang was the longest runnin out of all of em...
:-/
Oh well...
lol

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