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04-10-2021, 10:08 PM
from Corvette Blogger - https://www.corvetteblogger.com/2021/04/10/quick-shifts-c8-reviews-1960-corvette-at-le-mans-porsche-takes-a-page-from-the-c4-corvette-and-more/
Here is a story that will hit home for C4 ZR-1 fans! Porsche took a page out of the King of the Hill playbook and put their new, naturally-aspirated baby through an endurance torture test! Before starting 992 GT3 (https://www.corvetteblogger.com/2021/02/16/video-scouting-report-2022-porsche-911-gt3/) deliveries this summer, Porsche took one to their parent company?s Nardo test track and ran it for 5,000 straight kilometers (that?s 3,106.856 miles, for non-commies!), only stopping to refuel. During that time, the car averaged 186 MPH! That is an outstanding accomplishment, but it also highlights just how impressive those DOHC C4s (https://www.corvetteactioncenter.com/specs/c4/zr1/record.html) were! Over the same span, they were able to average 175.7 MPH with more than a 100 HP deficit, wearing inferior rubber, AND then they continued another 1,900 miles, averaging 173.79 MPH! We really wish Chevrolet still did things like this! Maybe as a way to prove the durability of their first foray into flat-plane-crank (https://www.corvetteblogger.com/?s=c8+z06) territory?
Here is a story that will hit home for C4 ZR-1 fans! Porsche took a page out of the King of the Hill playbook and put their new, naturally-aspirated baby through an endurance torture test! Before starting 992 GT3 (https://www.corvetteblogger.com/2021/02/16/video-scouting-report-2022-porsche-911-gt3/) deliveries this summer, Porsche took one to their parent company?s Nardo test track and ran it for 5,000 straight kilometers (that?s 3,106.856 miles, for non-commies!), only stopping to refuel. During that time, the car averaged 186 MPH! That is an outstanding accomplishment, but it also highlights just how impressive those DOHC C4s (https://www.corvetteactioncenter.com/specs/c4/zr1/record.html) were! Over the same span, they were able to average 175.7 MPH with more than a 100 HP deficit, wearing inferior rubber, AND then they continued another 1,900 miles, averaging 173.79 MPH! We really wish Chevrolet still did things like this! Maybe as a way to prove the durability of their first foray into flat-plane-crank (https://www.corvetteblogger.com/?s=c8+z06) territory?