Just for fun, here is a reminder of American Dominance.
While the Corvette C8 ZR1 is already the fastest time posted for an American production car on the Nurburgring, it’s to be noted that Team Corvette are a bit of a bunch of trolls - always have been - and set those times with their production team vs using pro drivers, to really rub it in Ford’s face when it effortlessly eclipsed their $350k Mustang GTD.
Now? The car has been given to a hot shoe - I’m assuming Randy Pobst - and has posted the single fastest production car time ever recorded at Virginia International Raceway. 3.6 and 3.0 seconds faster than the Porsche 911 GT2 and GT3, respectively, and 0.6 seconds faster than McLaren’s ultimate effort, the Senna, record dominator since 2019. Iirc, the Senna unseated the C7 ZR1’s track record, so, pottery.
For non-gearheads, races are won in tenths of seconds. For oldfags like me, 3.6 seconds is the difference between a Volvo wagon and a 5.0 5 speed Mustang, and that vs the unobtainium of the day.
This is less severe, bit still, in a race the podium finishers at VIR would cluster within a second. Taking the driver equation out, a field packed with ZR1s would see Porsches coming in midpack at best.
While we’re some bit off from Nurburgring Superiority, note that everything that beats a $200k American car costs 5x+ as much, is a nightmare to maintain, is a shit daily driver, and sells in such low numbers that you’re likely to never, ever see one IRL. The senna could easily, before collector tax figures in, run a cool mil over a comparable ZR1.
Tldr; while Japan gets autistic about panel gaps and hp/l, and Europe saber rattles about being the best to ever do it, America can produce a car that beats the McLaren Senna - and leaves enough change for a house, a boat, all the guns, all the liquor, and an Escalade V just for shits & giggles, and can cruise to Sonic on a Saturday night effortlessly to boot.
Nobody does it better than America - everyone knows it. Tremendous.
Hmmmmm! Dominance!
