Any Guesses On How Quick The Camaro ZL1 1LE Will Be Round The 'Ring?
On the same day that we brought you news that the new Ford Mustang might be more powerful than the Chevrolet Camaro, here’s the harder, fiercer Camaro to, er, beat the Mustang.
This is the Camaro ZL1 1LE, which sounds like a made up British postcode. But it’s actually the track-focused version of the already potent ZL1 (so Chevrolet’s answer to the Mustang GT350R), and it’s been spotted testing at the Nurburgring recently.
Chevrolet has dropped this teaser video on its Facebook page, with the very vague description “Challenge Accepted. More coming soon.” We don’t like that it’s displayed vertically, nor that in the entire duration of the video there are only two shots of the car, but it’s making us excited nonetheless.
So how fast will the ZL1 1LE blitz round the infamous German racetrack? Faster than seven minutes 29 seconds, that’s for sure. That’s the impressive benchmark set by the ‘standard’ ZL1, and with multiple aerodynamic additions and various other upgrades provided by the 1LE package, we’re expecting something quite special.
Post your best guess below…
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I’m not too sure what people’s logic behind disagreeing with Nurburgring lap times is. Sure, it’s bonkers to create a car solely to optimise pace around one track, but at the end of the day, performance cars about exactly that: performance. If manufacturers consider the Nurburgring to be the prime place to test that, to test how quick a car probably designed with speed around suck a place in mind, I can’t really agree with why people knock it. You may want a car that improves the driving experience, and yes a tenth on a dozen miles of speed limit-less tarmac won’t make any difference in the real world, but that’s what performance cars are about. Shaving off those excess kilos to shave off those tenths. The Nurburgring is the benchmark for performance, and I struggle to grasp why people don’t understand that. Of course, some cars like the Chiron choose to elect outright speed over lap times, but then their goal in terms of performance is top end speed, so the Nurburgring is not the benchmark they’re using.
Who even cares any more
I’m guessing 7 minutes and 14 seconds
Post realistic lap times. Its 3 seconds faster per lap around Milford than the ZL1. So its likely faster than a C6-Z07 but I doubt it will be quicker than the 2012 ZR1. I am guessing 7:20-7:21 would make sense.
Between 7.09 and 7.19
Does anyone care?
It’ll be a fast car, but it’ll overheat. Happend to the z06 and the new zl1 on track. Better waiting for the new z/28 or modifying the 2014/15 z/28 while they’re still low used.
They raised the heat exchangers on the newer LT4s to greatly improve the cooling.
Under 7m 10 maybe
7 minutes 16 seconds
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