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I have never driven the Streets course. I did SCCA/IMSA racing for 35 years and like high speed challenging tracks so like WSIR a lot. From what I have read Streets would be a good course for those with limited track experience. Getting a good technical base and being able to consistently do proper turn-in, apex and track out is what you are looking for in skill building. You will also have more time to recover safely from mistakes than you have in higher speed corners where precision can make the difference between a well-done fast corner and a destroyed car. I like the Firebird East track even though it is short and slow because the series of corners and short straight on the pit side of the track rewards driving a precise line with good lap times.

I have never driven a Z07 optioned C6Z, C7Z or C8Z. Would I lap faster with it, probably. I golf and my buddies at the golf course enjoy seeing the car. No way I wanted to be lifting the bag over the wing or feeding it in from the side. I am very pleased with my C8Z. I use it for several performance events, drive around town and go on driveouts with our local Corvette club. It cruises nicely on the highway and the wife is very pleased with it. I'm not concerned if I could be faster with the Z07. I would be faster running Hoosiers also, but I wouldn't drive them 400 miles each way to Willow Springs. I'll let you judge if I am fast enough after watching the video above. I do expect I can pick up 1-2 seconds with a faster entry into T2, some mods to my line in T4 and T5 and definitely carry more speed into and through T8 with a wider approach to T9 and pick up speed at the exit to carry down the main straight.

I do have a C7Carbon Z07 style front splitter without the dive planes.

@@AzDave47 thanks for the reply. I think your times are very very quick. I would be lucky to come even close to them. My last track car at WSIR was a manual 2018 Carrera GTS, on Cup 2’s, but my fastest lap was only 1:37.

@@hotguk The2015 Porsche GT 3 in the run 4 videos did a 1:29.7 best that day and has been down in the 1:28s

That is impressive, my minimum speed thru the Narrows was 117 MPH pulling 0.94 Gs. When did you run? I looked back thru the results for the last 10 years and there was a Porsche 928 that ran several times in the Unlimited, but no 911's.

@@AzDave47 I ran a fully race prepared 911 twin turbo with fuel cells, full roll-cage, halon fire system, fire suit and a sister co-pilot screaming 'you're going to kill us' the entire run :-) This would have been 2000 or 2001, UNL Class. The next year I ran an Ultima GTR with a 1450bhp twin-turbo dry sump and we hit 247 mph shortly after the start, but the car went unstable, and I thought it was aerodynamics but it ended up being steering rate and geometry. I quit open racing after that year because a friend of mine crashed his identically prepared Porsche twin turbo when they blew a tire at 195 mph and had an off-road excursion, 12 end-over-end rolls, and there was nothing left of the car except a roll-cage and two critically injured passengers. His wife survived, but he had broken his neck in two places, and had internal injuries, and it took him two years to die, hard to watch. My kids were 3, 7 & 8 at the time. I continued to road-race both the Porsche and the Ultima... you can have a bad day at a race track and bend some expensive equipment, but you probably won't die. Open road races are dangerous, and you never hear about the tragedies' and deaths. That's the dirty secret of this particular sport.

My guess is the engine would probably not do 150 in 8th gear as it is so much an overdrive. Also, when running the course and you get a mile marker time, and want to change your speed noe, the higher gears would respond too slowly, introducing another factor into trying to zero out my time. Usually in the last 4 miles I am trying to true up 0.4 seconds. Just the time to make a change happens 1/4 mile (6 seconds) after you go by the mile marker.

Let's see you get out there and do it. You'd go out the left side door in the first turn.

Not going that slow 😂

@@OneEye.Don’t feed the troll.

Yall obviously never been that speed, and even more obviously never recorded yourself going that speed, let alone cornering, everything looks slower on the onboard camera FYI, stick to videogames bruh 😂🤣

​@@Garf2O been faster than that in slow cars 😂

I agree!

Ikr, i know a LOT of people talk about how good they can drive, but i legit could have done most of that speed just staying in 1 lane imao, this event looks fun i need to try it.