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Stock Corvette Z06 has 10 second 1/4 Mile!
Talk about impressive! Our friends over at AutoBlog alerted us to the post on CorvetteForum showing that Jamie Furman, driving a stock C6 Corvette Z06 with run flat tires got under 11 seconds, 10.98 to be exact at 129 mph at the Maryland International Raceway. The time was validated by an official at the track, setting the record for the fastest production vehicle!After watching video after video of other random vehicles with much less power overtaking the Z06 on YouTube, it makes me proud to see Jamie going out and making this happen at MIR.
While the record isn't recognized necessarily by any governing body, the simple fact that he has the proof to show and that people all over the internet are talking about his achievement is good enough for us!
After reading on in the story, we find out that Furman actually owned Vipers back in the day. Seeing that its usually the Viper-lovers that create the most noise about how they think their car beats the Vette, this should quiet them... at least for a while.
Feel free to head over to AutoBlog for the larger scanned images of both of Jamie Furman's races, one with the run flat tires and one with special drag tires.
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Anyone believing this, I have a bridge to sell you.
It would take about 600 horspower to do this with a car weighing over 3,200 lbs with the driver.
Stock runflat tires stink as sidewalls are too stiff.
At 40 degree weather the good air for good engine performance only but with cold tires and track tires are even overpowered more.
Torque management during launch plus the wheelhop function PCM has would kill launch and every shift made.
Someone is not being honest or the track used ( by the way tracks for insurance would not allow a stock car to run those speeds without all the safety gear, including roll bar) either is using this for marketing purpose or their timing gear is not calibrated.
Sounds more like a owner who wants to claim it big, but anyone knowing the C5/C6 design knows due to rearend weight, a lot is lost due to poor downforce for traction.
Each shift alone costs about 1 second, thus 3 shifts alone is like 3 seconds lost and a loss of about 60-100 ft/bs of torque during upshifts and having engine recover from the loss of timing which is already low for WOT on the Z06.
What this does is then make all other Z06 owners to think something is wrong with their Z06 and have been know to sell car thinking it is a lemon for tuning low 12 ET around 118 MPH.
If a car could be a daily 10 second car, you can bet GM would have marketed with that spec.
Obviously the member from Team ZR1 that knows nothing about racing but what he reads should come out to the track with me and witness it first hand. The car runs 11.2 to 11.3 in any weather anytime with 1.8 60' time. People don't want to believe what they can't do themselves! I would be more than willing for ANYONE, ANYTIME! look over my car to prove its stock and I backed that pass up with many 11.00 runs and several other passes in the 10's with drag radials. Go to an online HP calculator and you will see any 500 hp 3250lb car can easily run 10's with the right driver. Do your homework or have some facts before you denounce something you obviously know nothing about.
Do you have a video of it?
Unfortunately we don't. If anyone out there does have a video or link to it, we'd love to share it with our readers!
i for myself have seen atleast 3 different stock z06's(one an 06 for sure run 11'4's and no slower than a 11'7 at capital raceway in crofton,md. if you can drive and practice you can do good numbers...i dont know how someone can say you lose 1 second on a shift because my mustang run 12'1 all day and i can get a 12'9 even when i miss a gear as long as i don't let go of it.