Originally Posted by
Cobra4B
Awesome that you guy did that... I know Ranger has been looking to get behind the wheel of one for a long time.
Any heat soak issues hot lapping the car like that?
While the 1/4 mile times aren't lower than the C6Z bone stock, trapping 131 shows the true power difference. From a roll race the ZR1 will walk the C6Z with ease.
I am sure that if we had allowed for longer cool downs and less passes we could have seen greater mph but we were really just trying to learn the car. In general though heat soak did not seem to have that great of an effect. Rangers best time and mph (131.87) on DRs was his 3rd in a set and my best was also the 3rd or 4th of a set. Ranger was going very easy on the launches since it was not his car, his best 60' on stock tires was only a 1.90. We did not put the drag radials on the car until the very end of the day so he wanted make sure he got a few runs in before the time was up so he was extra easy. His 60' on DRs were not quite a good as my best on stock tires. If he had launched the car like he does his Z06 then we would have seen a 1.6 60' and some 10.6 or 7s.
One thing to think about when comparing to the Z06 best drag times, on my first day ever driving a bone stock ZR1 at a drag strip, with my limited drag racing experience, I beat every single (known) bone stock Z06 1/4 time except one, Jamie's. That one run was completed with a DA 2000 ft less than my run and a better driver.