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2019 Corvette ZR1 A Tick Behind Ford GT At Willow Springs:

The 2019 C7 Corvette ZR1 was built to smash track times, and thus far, it’s been pretty successful with times at two layouts of Virginia International Raceway—one spanked the Ford GT in the process.

Motor Trend recently handed its 2019 Corvette ZR1 off to Randy Pobst, resident racing driver extraordinaire, to see what the car could manage at Willow Springs. It didn’t manage a new lap record, but it still impressed.

At 1:23.70, Chevrolet’s supercar slayers was just 0:01 seconds behind the Ford GT at the track, which set a 1:23.69. The top record belongs to the Porsche 911 GT2 RS with a 1:21.08, followed by the McLaren 720S (1:21.75), 2018 Lamborghini Huracán Performante (1:22.53), and Porsche 918 Spyder (1:23.54).

Think about that for one moment: the Corvette ZR1 sits in the ballpark with the 918 Spyder, a purpose-built hypercar.

Pobst found the ZR1’s track behavior more pleasant than the Z06 and said the ZTK package’s high wing provided greater stability at high speeds. But, he said typical Corvette twitchiness was on display when accelerating in lower gears.

Former GM Authority staff writer.

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  1. It’s called torque… High torque coming out of the corners.

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  2. Despite all of their effort, the 2019 C7 Corvette ZR1 is still 0.01 seconds slower than the Ford GT around Willow Springs and this says everything you need to know why General Motors gave the green light to make the Corvette into a mid-engine car in hopes of outperforming the GT; but then again.. one has to wonder whether Chevrolet actually did everything possible as they could have made further changes to the C7 Corvette ZR1’s suspension to mirror that of the C7.R.

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  3. The ZR1 is not a tick behind when it comes to price!

    So how should we compare sports cars? By performance numbers or cost of the car?

    If both cars are close to price then they should have similar performance.

    My choice is cost

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  4. The ACR is actually 2nd. 1.21.24

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