Conclusion: this is peak front engine/rear drive Corvette. Less lateral grip and a slower figure 8 than the Z06 or Grand Sport. Faster laps, though. And faster acceleration. The Grand Sport is still the Corvette you want if you like driving, and pushing a car in street situations.
But yeah, they got 10.8 sec @ 133.1 mph on 91. GM says 10.6-second/134-mph is possible on 93 octane. Seems reasonable.
Doing this will produce a wisp of wheelspin that will be monitored/managed all the way through first gear. The best launch-control results made 0–60 times of 3.2 to 3.3 seconds and steady quarter miles of 11.2 to 11.4 seconds at 130 mph—and anybody could do that, repeatedly. The launch control is that good.
Make no mistake, it can get out of hand quickly, but there’s a friendly cooperation inherent to this car that’s lacking in, say, a 707-hp, 650-lb-ft Hellcat that simply cannot put its power to the ground. The ZR1 is remarkable in this way.
Sure is in some good company. Those are all mid-engine (or rear engine) vehicles by the way.Did the ZR1 set another record at the “Big” track? Sadly no, but it did outpace the last Z06 he drove there by a significant 1.3 seconds. In order, the top five spots currently belong to a 2018 Porsche 911 GT2 RS (1:21.08), 2018 McLaren 720S (1:21.75), 2018 Lamborghini Huracán Performante (1:22.53), 2015 Porsche 918 Spyder (1:23.54), and 2017 Ford GT (1:23.69). In sixth place by a mere 0.01 second, the 2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 with the ZTK package made a 1:23.70 lap. With Chevrolet on hand to support the effort and three sets of tires sacrificed in the process, it was the best that car could do that day. The “low-wing” car was just 1.15 seconds behind, its 1:24.85 earning 11th place overall.
Kind of like the C6 ZR1 in that regard.On the road, the non-ZTK-equipped ZR1 rides as smoothly as every other C7 Corvette I’ve ever driven. The ZTK is harsher, like the RS versions of the Porsche 911 GT2/GT3 are.