LS7 in that Corvette....

[Mr. Luos]

Oh
My
God.




Rough translation....

Thought this would be interesting to you all.
Scanned from a recent issue of "Bilmagasinet" - danish car mag.
Interview with Jan Magnussen about (among other things) his record lap at NBR.
Here´s a translation:

[Top pic, Magnussen and Vette:]
Thursday morning, Southern Germany. General Motors have discreetly rented the legendary german Nürburgring track for an hour between 7 and 8 in the morning.
The temperature is more comfortable than at Le Mans, and the track is empty apart from a couple of early rising spy photographers.
It takes more than a blue Vette to exite them - they recognize it, it´s the Z06 version, the brutal Vette with 500 BHP. What they do not know, is that it´s Jan Magnussen behind the wheel.
The objective is to beat Walther Rörhl´s laptime in a Porsce GT3 RS - it´s 7:43,0 min for the 20,8 km heavily varied track with 73 corners.
The record was set in 2004 in a standard version of the Porsche.

[Splash in middle]
Jan made 7:42,9 thereby beating the Porsche GT3 RS by 0,1 sec.


[Two lower photos]
"The photo is taken at Flugplatz. I´m going 240-250 km/h at full throttle in 4th gear and the car is actually jumping twice: After the first jump it lands so hard that it takes off again, as you can see in the second picture. As it lands the second time I have to take a sharp right immediately after.
The car is a standard car with street setup - had it been my racer it would hardly have left the tarmac. At NBR the street car reaches 295 km/h on the long straight in 5th gear (6th gear is an overgear for saving gasoline). At NBR there are no run-off areas like other tracks,. You simply have to stay on the track. When you are halfway around the 20 km, you think it´s a good thing there are only half as many places left you risk running off the track" Jan says.

[About the track and the car]
"The stree Corbette has virtually no grip compared to my race car which has a large rear spoiler. But it does have almost as many BHPs as my Le Mans racer and is almost as fast. The rev limiter sets in at 7000 rpms, and it does have more than 500 BHPs.
It´s fast.At the record attempt I drove 2 x 2 laps with a cooldown lap inbetween for both mine and the car´s sake.
I couldn´t have driven one single lap more. I wouldn´t have liked to drive a single meter (3 feet) more with myself at the wheel at that speed", Jan finishes.

[Rally Sport]

DAMN THATS SEXY

[Viper_Storm]

that is a bad ass vette right there.

[Rally Sport]

Seems like the Vette is better than the porche.. I'd take a Vette over a Porche too, Porches.. I think look ugly as hell.

[BlackGT2000]

That is an awesome car no matter how you look at it.

[Xenostalgia]

see even damn germans say you need to turn into ricers with huge wings damnit

[Link85x]

Chalk another one up for GM, that Z06 is f****** awesome. Imagine if a camaro had a "slighty" detuned version of that motor... orgasim...

[89IROC&RS]

sexy sexy, oh and the rear wing thing was in relation to the race car that develops damn near enough downforce at speed to stick to the roof of a tunnel if it wanted to. personally i have no problem with how porsches look, to me its how they sound. the flat six just sounds bad, and not in the good way.

[Rally Sport]

Is that the track that is on Gran Turismo 4? If it is, GOOD god. That track is crazy, all the turns, high speeds you can reach then a damn HAIRPIN turn that you must make, is really freaking hard to do. all this while having elevation changes makes it even more difficult, damn I want to race on that track again.

[89IROC&RS]

yup, that track sets the standard for performance cars. thats also the track that they used to tune the suspension on both the caddilac CTS-V and the Cobalt SS.

[stepho]

Just so you know 195 km/h is like 183 mph.


(edited... because of a monday figure.)
(edited again... *note to self*when you double check yourself make sure you use the same number)

[89IROC&RS]

1.6 km = 1 mile

[Muscletang]

That ZO6 is awesome and those pictures of it getting air are damn awesome.

I have no problem with Porshes but they are overpriced. I guess you get what you pay for because it is a German car but you can get better for less in the performance area.

As for the looks I think the Porshe 911 looked its best in the early '90's.

[Rally Sport]

I still dont like em, I think they look weird.. thats all, I've always liked the body of the Corvette too.

[Rally Sport]

Originally Posted by 89IROC&RS

yup, that track sets the standard for performance cars. thats also the track that they used to tune the suspension on both the caddilac CTS-V and the Cobalt SS.

Pretty interesting, I thought Chevy had its own track that it did that on? I remember reading something.. maybe it was only for the regular C6..