Drag Racing 2023 Corvette Z06 Dusts A Porsche 911 GT3 By Extra Than 5 Automotive Lengths

The brand new Corvette Z06 appears to be an unimaginable efficiency cut price by all accounts regardless of its six-figure price ticket. Now, Jason Cammisa goes to see simply how properly it fares towards the automobile that’s been the usual bearer for many years, the Porsche 911 GT3. Spoiler alert: the Vette wins… by loads.

Cammisa truly strains the Chevrolet up towards not simply the Porsche but additionally a V10-powered Audi R8 Spyder. What do all of them have in frequent? Each is a naturally-aspirated, rear-wheel drive supercar with the engine behind the passenger compartment (mid-placed for the Corvette and R8, rear for the 911). It simply so occurs that each one main camps, six, eight, and ten cylinders, are represented as properly.

When the inexperienced mild goes, there’s little doubt from the outset about how the race goes to go. That is smart too as a result of the slowest of the bunch, the Audi, continues to be quick sufficient that it completed in simply 11.4 seconds at 125 mph (201 km/h).

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The Corvette although is on a unique degree. It does the quarter-mile dance in simply 10.5 seconds at 131 mph (210 km/h). The Porsche is a full four-tenths of a second again with a entice time of 10.9 seconds at 129 mph (207 km/h).

Regardless of being tons of of kilos heavier, the Corvette has 170 further hp (126 kW) on board which supplies it the perfect power-to-weight ratio of the bunch. As Cammisa factors out, there’s no different automobile of its variety (naturally aspirated, rear-wheel-drive, mid-engine) that may sustain with it as we speak.

In fact, in the event you’re not blind you seen the Ducati Panigale on our lead picture. It exhibits up on the drag race too and does to the Corvette what the Corvette did to the 911 GT3. Specifically, it takes the brand new king of naturally aspirated mid-engine rear-wheel drive supercars to gapplebees.

In fact, it solely does so partially as a result of it’s piloted by Josh Herron, MotoAmerica SuperSport Champion. Based on Cammisa, had a lesser pilot been atop the Panigale, the race would’ve been a lot a lot nearer. Suffice it to say, in the event you’re making an attempt to smoke $40,000 superbikes in your inventory supercar you’re more likely to have a nasty time.

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