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Old 10-16-2011, 10:58 PM
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Default I know it's blasphemous...but I loved driving this Z06 race car today

Dave Leonard, of SpeedSouth, greciously let me drive his full race Z06 for a few laps at Barber today. What an incredibly well-prepared, well-built, well-sorted racecar. It was so balanced, so predictable...it drove just like my M3 on steroids...or a Cup car on steroids.

I was really, really impressed...

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I love the z06, a seriously impressive car in road or race spec.
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Originally Posted by Veloce Raptor
Dave Leonard, of SpeedSouth, greciously let me drive his full race Z06 for a few laps at Barber today. What an incredibly well-prepared, well-built, well-sorted racecar. It was so balanced, so predictable...it drove just like my M3 on steroids...or a Cup car on steroids.

I was really, really impressed...
Cups don't have that kind of torque.
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Love the Z06, first Corvette I really would like to own.
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Love those Z06's...great race cars and great track cars.
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Originally Posted by Larry Herman
Cups don't have that kind of torque.
LOL no **** sherlock. But the way the car points, trail brakes, etc is very similar.
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Get any lap times in that thing
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I ordered a ZL1 Camaro (ZR1 motor) BUT i am already thinking that I should have gotten the ZO6.
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You already drive that BMW you might as well continue down the path to purgatory and get the vette.
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Originally Posted by Minoclan
I ordered a ZL1 Camaro (ZR1 motor) BUT i am already thinking that I should have gotten the ZO6.
No.

You should've gotten the ZR1.
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Originally Posted by agdamis
Love the Z06, first Corvette I really would like to own.
+1,000! Glad you had fun, Dave!
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Dave,

Good seeing you at O'fest. I drove the SpeedSouth car on Sunday afternoon and had an absolute blast. Even with all the power, it was so easy to drive because it was so predictable and smooth! I need to hit the lottery so that I can have David build me one!
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Originally Posted by jenk12m
Get any lap times in that thing
No idea. He had the data running but there is no dash laptime display, and there was some hellaciously slow DE instructor traffic on every lap that I had to wait for a pointby from to pass... Dave Leonard has done a 1:30 in the past in the car with 100% open track, for an idea of its potential.
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Originally Posted by 924RACR
No.

You should've gotten the ZR1.
~$62,000 difference in price.


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