Germany’s Nurburgring attracts all sorts of different cars to the 12.9-mile Norschelife loop of its racetrack, and not just performance cars. Manufacturers use the challenging facility to test all sorts of different vehicles. Chevrolet has even been spotted testing the next-generation Chevrolet Cruze at ‘The Green Hell’. The track isn’t just available to manufacturers though, on certain days anyone can take their car out on the ‘Ring, which brings us to the video below.
Two auto journalists from the United Kingdom were out putting BMW’s all-new M4 Coupe through its paces at the Nurburgring when they noticed they were being stalked by one of Chevy’s best track weapons, the C6 Corvette Z06.
The M4 is powered by a 3.0-liter, twin turbocharged inline six-cylinder engine pumping out 425 horsepower and 406 lb-ft of torque, which is mated to either a six-speed manual or seven-speed dual clutch automatic transmission. The Z06 on the other hand has Chevy’s 7.0-liter LS7 engine with an output of 505 horsepower and 474 lb-ft of torque, which is paired with a six-speed manual shifter. The ‘Vette is the light of the two, so don’t have to whip out your calculator to know it has the better power-to-weight ratio, but can it keep up with the more modern M4 on the track?
In short, yes. While racing is not allowed on the Nurburgring during open days and passing is restricted to the left-hand side of the track, the Corvette has no problem trailing the M4. The driver of the BMW eventually lets the faster Corvette by around the 9-minute mark, but not before the two have had plenty of fun playing cat and mouse. Check out the video below.
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The Z06 driver is barely on the throttle. Sounds like he’s rarely topping 4k RPM.
LOL, In the end, that little M4 came back with a vengeance!
No, he did what we in the field call: a ricer fly-by.
The M3 driver was terrible. He repeatedly turned in too early, and was losing speed through the curves with driver induced understeer. At one point he was over zealous and went off the track with hamfisted oversteer.
I’m sure the F82 is quite competent in the right hands. But the C6 ZO6 was clearly the Cat to the M4’s mouse in this vid.
@ jzEllis
Yes I know, I was being sarcastic in my last comment and laughing at that little stunt the M4 driver pulled in the end, after he couldn’t pull away from the C6 on the curves.
That little M4 had ZERO chance with that driver and vs a Z06 no less.
Gotcha. As you know, sometimes it’s hard to tell on the ‘interwebs’.
looked like nobody was really trying very hard, slow race
WTH is this? These cars aren’t even in the same league performance-wise. A better match-up would be a 2006+ Corvette Z51 vs the M4…that would be a much, much closer comparison.