[SpeedIsLife]

Originally Posted by FenwickHockey65

Production car record at VIR.

EDIT: Didn't realize this just happened the other day: http://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars...vir-viper-acr/

lol GT.

And the GT wasn't even going for a record attempt, but instead was on a diagnostic run.

From Billy Johnson himself on the whole GT vs ZR1 laps

For the record, I was not the first person to post a pic of the time. Once it was leaked, I posted a pic on IG. Months after it happened.

R&T has the story correct and interviewed me. I'm actually quite disappointed in how lazy automotive journalism is these days. How "journalists" simply copied and pasted that R&T interview, took things out of context and made up information out of ignorance or to try to embellish or differentiate their article from the original interview, since they put zero work into it themselves.

There was an issue with a MT test, I flew out last minute, days after to validate the problem on the black/orange car with a known good car (red one), but that car suffered an isolated fuel pickup issue that required it to run full on track. This was actually known by C&D before they drove that car. The red car was just recently fixed after MT & C&D did their track tests with it. It's very time consuming to fix but it was the only car to suffer that problem.

I turned the 38 during an A-B evaluation to diagnose the black car's problem. The Motec was used for diagnostic purposes between the two cars and theirs no in-car video because I wasn't there to set a record, but to "work". We don't tend to throw GoPro videos in cars for development and diagnostic tests. In retrospect, I wish I had a video even for my own personal records, but that's not why I was sent to VIR, plus the day was far from ideal, so there wasn't even hope for turning an impressive time that should need video records of.

Of course i'd love to have a crack at a time with a car that at least had titanium exhaust, if not the lightweight competition series, that could turn a lap on a low fuel load and have the support with new tires on a good day. Unfortunately those aren't Ford's goals.

If GM isn't being facetious, I look forward for their faster, "official" lap time in a production car with stock seats. I'd love for them to throw my buddy Tommy Milner in the car to see what I can do.

Are the end if the day, it's great to see all of these cars being made, especially since they're faster than a lot of dedicated racing cars, and you need a pro driver to get within a couple seconds of it's limit.