Racing the NEW 2020 Corvette C8 on Track!

hey guys it's schmee hello and welcome back to the channel where you join me today at spring mountain just outside of las vegas to drive around the

track

with the new

corvette

the mid engined c8 generation this car behind me It is fast blue. the high wing at the rear the z51 package today we are going to take a look at some very interesting things some of the concepts that were actually used in the

corvette

to make its first mid-engined model and then it will be time to drive it get angry in the circuit to get a proper idea of ​​what this car is like just to show you this car very quickly.

Today we will take a good look at them. I have already driven the car on the road, but today we will drive them. On the race

track

this one as you can see has the z51 package with this bigger wing on the back and it looks amazing, particularly the color, the fast blue color of the performance exhaust on this car, you'll hear a lot of sounds of the 6.2-liter naturally aspirated V8 that you find inside, but as good as that, the entry price is sixty thousand dollars, of course, fully equipped, you're talking about ninety thousand dollars, but it's a car that I It's very interesting, so I can't wait to drive it. a little bit more angry to get a sense of this, but let's go straight inside to see some of the prototypes because this is a really cool exhibit, come and take a look here, where we have several of the different stages of engineering, the work of development that I had to dedicate myself to making the final car, which has something I hadn't realized before when I first drove the car, but this is where it started about six years ago, around 2014, a fully disguised prototype vehicle , of course. like a Holden ute the fascia the headlights the rear lights but inside something very different hiding the fact that there is a 6.2 v8 mid engine back here now the car has the lt2 but in this case they actually mated it to the dual clutch porsche pdk to get an idea to get it up and running while they were developing their own parts, so you wouldn't have realized what they were.

These are a bit more of a giveaway. 11 cars they built about two years later to start testing additional things, suspension geometry, tire sizes. and that kind of stuff before moving into this era, which was then when they built over 100 cars, actually 100 camouflaged cars to start testing the interior accessories, exact specific options and even more development, putting up the miles and making sure that all They will work. correctly before they went and built these originally at headquarters before the plant was up and running, but what's up with the car is a bright red z51 package that I didn't realize was to open the front storage, look at this, there is There is a button down here that you can press and when you open it, the latch opens where inside we have some luggage.

I didn't realize there was a button there and I don't know why more front or back. The powered cars don't have a button on the front, open the storage space, that's something completely unique anyway, we spent enough time playing here, taking a look at the cars, today is going to be mostly about driving them, so let's look into one to take away. We hit the trail here at Spring Mountain to see what it's all about. Now it's track time. The line of cars here in the pit lane. All different groups. We will be in a lead following type configuration and the C8s behind. c7 zr1 is going to be a lot of fun to watch drive we have several different color specs all with z51 packages ready to hit the track so i need to grab a helmet put on a harness and determine what my car is going to be or is it time to driving sounds good here we go, then on board the car with a helmet and a safety device, let's put it in track mode, that means of course it stiffens the suspension, we have the highest performance exhaust system, I can confirm that sounds amazing, We'll go into drive, we'll put it in manual, I have the PDR running so we'll be able to see some of that data, but otherwise everything feels good, this is of course where this car is supposed to be. element a car that was eventually changed in terms of its engine configuration for this, for track driving, the performance limitation, although we remain as #1 which, although it is a c7, has substantially more power and even more aerodynamics than this. 500 horsepower 495 total brakes 470 pounds for the torque that's 637 newton meters right I think we're ready to get some flashes and we can get out there, then we'll start to smooth this out a little bit and then move towards the redline immediately on the six, not necessarily the highest red line in the world, but we're going to ride this track, learn a little bit as we go, we've had a few test laps, but still always.

I need to get a little familiar and of course we are using michelin ps4 tires, not small cup two, not sticky full track rubber, but still tires that can be used in almost all conditions, you get this performance from this firm of money. The brakes I have been inspecting and learning about the Brembo brakes on this car. The brakes they had to make. This is an interesting part of the track coming up here, as well as a quick and smooth touch as we dive into the chicane. Some of these curves you can also adjust, as well as small adjustments to the pedals on the accelerator panel, for example, significantly changing direction by accelerating with firm brakes.

This is a fairly technical course of a few quarter planes. I've walked it before. I can use some of the torque that is carried through the corners in the deep end here it is not necessarily necessary to lower the second there we have the rear foot straight down 60 70 80 90 100 I'm going to get 110 maybe a little I saw more 117 on the brakes, but in the corner at the end just to be doubly safe. I am absolutely amazed by the performance here and what it offers at this price. This is a really dynamic drive, it's actually kind. It's amazing that they created this, I mean you don't get this full performance for 60k but for 8090k and you're in it and you can drive like this, this is mega, it's absolutely mega, this car has a lot of performance, but honestly, give it a little.

Slightly stickier rubber, put a little two cups on it and it will allow you to go around a track like this even faster. There is a lot available and it is also very well balanced and quite easy to exploit and push hard which makes it really fun. 121 i saw on the dashboard that it's very fast, not as fast as the 101, but wow, we're moving around here, I think that could, why not, probably show up on camera, but we're absolutely driving, this is for to be honest. exactly what I guess everyone expected this car to be, that's why I take it a little slower for a second, the ability to tune it and balance it and maneuver it around a circuit like this.

Wow, firm on the brakes, yeah you have a lot of stopping power when you're fully on the anchors, next little stint I'm going to hit the traction button, just take it easy down the backstretch for a second, we'll take the traction off with just press it to put it in a lower state and Well, obviously, be a little careful, a little dusty, but feel a little bit without intervening as much. To be honest, it has to be said that there isn't much involved to begin with. Here we are. I have enough grip, I don't slip anyway, this is so epic, we are on the edge of what this can do.

There are some cool corners on this track at times. I have driven here once before during my US tour with my car when I stopped. just a couple of fast laps, but this is quite different. Getting familiar with it would be a good way to learn how to handle these sections. Holy Moly, we're driving so fast. I love this experience. The 124 I saw on the straight. fourth gear back way back wow grip tight straighten the wheels on the brakes cool down that time oh wow okay how did they do this how does this just hurtle? I love the feeling of driving.

I'm really impressed by what this package offers, I think so. There were a lot of expectations on it and it lives up to that, as I said in my road driving, but on the track it excels, I mean, I hope to catch my breath, as you can see, I've been driving it so hard that I'm almost a little worn out, oh , can you imagine what future variants of this will be? with the c7r and they did a small lap of seven minutes and 29.9, which for a car at this price is mega, that's hitting supercar territory that's on par with a number of much, much more expensive muscle cars, yeah, an impressive effort, a very impressive effort and an amazing track to enjoy driving too today back to the pit lane I'm really a bit tired from this wow ok so okay what a trip please excuse the helmet but let's take a look Quick look at some of the things.

You get with the z51 package one of which is the cooling that you can hear when the car is cooling down. Improved cooling in the package visually and of course for the aerodynamics you get the extended splitter and you get the spoiler which you have on the Back there is a new suspension system along with the stabilizer bars and a number of other different components, plus you have brakes larger ones which, interestingly, are larger in the rear than the front, to help with the balance of the weight 60 of the road to the rear, so 60 40 or 40 60 depending on what you want to call it, which is quite unusual , actually having bigger brakes back there, the performance exhaust means 495 brake horsepower and with the performance data recorder inside just to show you real quick, it says opening the door here in the in the glove box, you've got the SD slot right here, which is where you can put it, it saves your recording and then you can save it and watch it later, which I'm going to try to do in this video so we can see a little bit. snapshot of what that looks like in general, although in terms of dynamic performance per dollar, you really can't do much better than that, next stop here is to do some launch control, have a little fun on an autocross track, this car has magnetic suspension which gives some different controls and settings and various things including traction control in competitive mode and we're going to do some throws the other cars are on the track right now going around laps look at that look very very nice in the circuit in one second.

I guess we're going to hear a launch of this car around here with the v8 bouncing around the revs at about 3600 rpm before taking off like this and then we have the autocross track so I'll be up there in just a second. We're going to have a launch controller right there so we have traction in competition mode. We will be automatic for this. I'm still going to have the exhaust making very, very loud. I'm going to close the window, all good, windows up, foot down, firmly, 100 on the brake, on the gas, 3600 rpm, let it settle and go, that's decently fast and now.

We have this little autocross course to play with some driving, this is where you don't want to hit the cones and just for fun, also a little braking test, yeah that's awesome, wow, with a helmet on we're doing it. a few hot laps and I'm going to join up with Chris, one of the engineers on the Corvette project, so let's take a step here, are you doing it, Chris? Nice to meet you guys, okay, so get ready, it's time for a quick spin to experience this from the passenger seat is being pushed, we're going to go in a second here, okay, let's go a little smoky away, yeah, yeah, we'll do a live launch control, get out of here, perfect, perfect, look at the line. here the line of cars in front of us right away we're on that yeah I'm enjoying the g4 1.16 screen there that's a nice sharp turn yeah we're on 1.26 now that's pretty impressive pretty cool awesome thank you for that absolutely good stuff, so we're still using the sport pilot for us here, yes, this is the summer tire, the sport pilot 4, it's an incredibly progressive tire, yes, combined with an incredible maximum capacity, as you just saw, yes , it's a really fun tire.

I mean, it makes the car's job a little bit easier, it sounds really good too, yeah, and that was we're running track and ptm mode, one of the ptm modes there, so the traction system is trying to optimize wheel slip to give you forward acceleration. at maximum capacity perfect, well that was amazing, thank you very much, I really appreciate it and, uh, congratulations, this is a pretty epic car, thank you, sweet, okay ally, I'm going to hear some of the cars exploding, look. Later you look at that car as it rolls down the pit lane in front of us and it sounds like a supercar too and that's a pretty interesting discussion.

I think about the new Corvette C8, the discussion about the supercar. I don't think it could be because of the price and theexclusivity, they're going to make 30,000 of these in the first year alone, but in terms of looks and dynamics, of course, it drives like a supercar, the engine is behind you and it's actually an aspirated V8 and plus we hear this coming flying for the lovely shifting noise that makes that pop and crunch when shifting up. I think one thing I didn't mention too much about the driving experience is that there is a bit of understeer, of course it has skinny front tyres, it's a car that will be driven around here and as such it needs to be safe, it's important, you feel which is not happy with the tail like previous generations with the engine in front.

Although they sound so sweet as they go overall.what I said before what you get for your money performance for the dollar that's where this thing just excels in a different category versus anything else and I guess we're going to have another launch control in short and those pops and cracks on the upshift come back really cool, I guess the others will come back but this has been an amazing day to be able to experience it now on the track after previously driving it on the road and now to be able to experience the C8 Corvette again. with anger, a little bit of autocross, a little bit of launch control, a little bit of hot lap, a little bit of track experience, especially here at Spring Mountain, yeah, yeah, it's a really, really, really good car for the money, of course, there are some shortcomings, you may have seen my other one. video driving it on the road talking more about that but the cars I just can't beat the performance for the money you know even if these are the 90,000 fully loaded cars it's still a lot of cars they did a good job on , equipment.

Corvette, congratulations to the team, to the engineers, to everyone who was involved in this because well, it's going to be incredibly popular and I can see exactly why, so thank you very much for watching guys, I hope you enjoyed today's video driving with the. c8 I enjoyed it a lot, that's for sure and we'll see you again very soon, a hug.