Here's the video everyone's been waiting for. Hot off of the presses. http://videos.streetfire.net/video/ZR1-Nurburgring-Official_170754.htm
That is totally awesome. Impressive as hell. Of course, I am sure all kinds of people will come up with all kinds of reasons why this isn't a valid run.
Now why would someone say that? Video documentation, running on Michelin PS2s, Engineer driver, mighty impressive. Impressive. Shame it's $100k though. Should shake things up and do some interesting things for next year's GTR, and the new cars to come in the next couple years.
Why is it a shame it is $100K? It is a limited production run with a laptime faster than a $500K Pagani Zonda. Obviously the Zonda is 100x more exotic than the corvette, but 100K is a steal for that kind of performance. The R8 costs more and probably wouldn't lap the ring within 25 seconds of that ZR1.
The GTR has done some incredible laps, but if you look at the latest C&D (US model vs test mule) the car was just able to edge out a Z06 on a track -- which is still damn impressive.
so the ZR-1 had a flying start just like GT-R did...
Check this out. Garage419 put both videos side-by-side. That's awesome.
http://videos.streetfire.net/video/ZR1-vs-GTR-at-the-Ring_170827.htm