We went to the 'Ring last fall, and it rained almost the entire time. Never got one complete lap in. We could do a segment time, but we don't do that, we only publish times that are run continuously. The best proxy for a ring time is the VIR Grand Course, which we ran in 2:41.3, 4.3 faster than a ZR1.

It's impressive on paper, the proof will be in the first tests. I suspect they'll do a good job.

We'll put you on the wait list.

Thank you for your input, we'll take a look at it.

Steering wheel mounted paddles are some of the most expensive switches on the car, it wasn't done for cost cutting at all. The bean counters had a hissy fit over it. It's expensive, but when you experience the rev matching, you'll discover that having a convenient way to turn it on and off is priceless.

It doesn't, actually.

If we did would you buy one?

We try to race in the type of racing that is most replicating what our most extreme customers would do. That's why we do endurance racing, trying to improve the breed and learn meaningful things that you can't learn in other types of racing.

True, but they're also heavy, expensive, and require batteries that take up all your luggage room.

No.

Good question!

We have a few customer requests for a more pure, track focused model, and we are always studying potential future new products.

We started with NA, found we couldn't meet our requirements, so we changed to forced induction. We looked at a turbo as well, but for total vehicle performance, it wasn't as good as the supercharged version.

We want to have impedence mismatch at all chassis attachment points, very stiff on the body side, very stiff control arms, highly tuned compliant bushings enable precise wheel motion geometry.

We're pedaling as fast as we can. The Z06 is on the road right now and satisfying a great many customers.

Thanks for pointing that out

I don't think that many people have. I know relatively few customers who have experienced power loss. We have shown the car to hundreds of highly skilled drivers on warm days on track, and there has been relatively little drop off in performance.

I think if you get behind the wheel you'll find that there is nothing soft about it.

We're only on year two. You can expect us to be on the seventh generation architecture for a while.

We left everything on the playing field with the Z06, we didn't leave performance headroom for a ZR1.