Fast Red ZR-1 ,just hear the sound even so far away... [video]

who own this Z ?? Damn Fast Zee, and sound like musik in my ears!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7tnGoiKNTDQ&NR=1

[LT-5 Music]

Thanks for posting its a great sounding LT-5 blasting off!

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Originally Posted by LT-5 Music

Thanks for posting its a great sounding LT-5 blasting off!

Skip

welcome buddy! and have nice nickname by the way!

i wish i try this racing.intersting.i am jealous i dont live in USA!

[LT-5 Music]

Originally Posted by HADI-ZR1

welcome buddy! and have nice nickname by the way!

i wish i try this racing.intersting.i am jealous i dont live in USA!

C'mon over

Thanks for the welcome.

It does look like fun...

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[Z Factor]

Hello Skio and welcome to the forum

[LT-5 Music]

Thanks Jim,

The lure of a the seasoned LT-5's mechanical melodies brought me here!

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[ZRWON]

Originally Posted by HADI-ZR1

who own this Z ?? Damn Fast Zee, and sound like musik in my ears!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7tnGoiKNTDQ&NR=1

I am sure it was not a ZR-1. I was there working as a "Race Control Official". The car with the camera taking this video is a 1988 Porsche 928 car # 107, owned by Matthew Edson Castro Valley, CA. with Richard Sanders as navigator.
The red '91 Corvette, # 87 that left the line before Edison's Porsche is owned by Dave Hardwick, Evansville WY. Both cars had a targeted speeds of 130 mph with a Tech limit of 168. There was only one ZR-1 running in that class group of 12 cars and it was Bob Cope's Blue '95 from West Covina CA. Bob and Bryan (navigator) Cope took 1st place doing 129.998. vs the targeted average of 130 mph or just .002 off the perfect 130 mile target...that's about as close as you can get to perfection!
Matthew ended in 3rd place with a 129.984 speed or .016 off perfect.
Here are a couple links to what they look like doing >200 mph from roadside where I was working.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrSKwu51mP4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfDrj...eature=related

At 200 mph they travel over 3.3 miles each /minute or 293 feet per second!

The Cope family have three ZR-1s and all three were there for both 2006 & the 2007 PONY130 and maybe a few other years too! NEAT VETTE PEOPLE as are most ALL ORR people I've ever met!!!

[LT-5 Music]

Wow...thought it sounded like an LT-5...oops.

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[ZRWON]

Originally Posted by LT-5 Music

Wow...thought it sounded like an LT-5...oops.

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That one is an easy call to miss...his Vette is a long ways from stock and it has the sound to prove it. I thought he would do better but maybe he had some problems. It's easy for cars to do speed bursts of 120-180 for short periods but all things change with ORR where the speeds are maintained for 100 miles and up... It takes a strong car and driver to do this! He ended up in 11th place out of 12 cars. I didn't have an opportunity to talk with him. Things got a little cahotic at the PONY130 (miles) last year with a very serious accident involving one of the fastest cars (and more experienced drivers) just before the turnaround at Austin NV. They survived the crash because of all the safety eq in the cars and the great emergency crews working these ORR events. I heard the team plans to return again next August!