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How Powerful Is The New C8 ZR1? | Corvette Racing CORVETTE TODAY #229
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May 8, 2025
Hi! We're excited to have you here for an insightful discussion on how powerful is the new C8 ZR1 and Corvette racing, featured on Corvette Today. In this episode of Corvette Today, Steve Garrett and Keith Cornett from Corvette Blogger dive deep into how powerful is the new C8 ZR1, exploring its incredible power and performance. The episode kicks off with a detailed analysis of: - Latest ZR1 sightings analysis - Corvette Racing results at Road America 2024 - Is the new ZR1 the most powerful Corvette? ******************* We also discuss intriguing updates on the Corvette lineup, including the delayed release of the electric Corvette Stingray and the upcoming Corvette SUV. Keith shares insights from industry forecasts and speculation about these future models, revealing that both are expected to be produced at GM's Lansing Grand River plant in Michigan. Despite the delays, Corvette enthusiasts can look forward to exciting new additions to the lineup, including a potential dual production route of ICE and EV models. The episode also covers lighter Corvette news, including a visit to Jay Leno's Garage featuring the 2025 Corvette ZR1, and a humorous yet nerve-wracking incident involving a Corvette on a malfunctioning lift at Corvettes of Carlisle. We wrap up with insights on Corvette sales in Europe through Heeden Mobility Group and a tip from Justin at Horsepower Obsessed about maintaining your Corvette’s cabin air filter. ********************************* Discover more of our video content on Corvette news and headlines, including how powerful is the new C8 ZR1. You'll find additional insights on this topic, along with relevant social media links
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cornette from Corvette blogger.com is here every other week we keep you current and up toate on what's happening
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with America sports car this is kind of our show Edition Keith and I were just at Corvettes at Carlile and the
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anniversary celebration along with the Caravan at the National Corvette Museum how you feeling buddy are you doing all
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right yeah I'm feeling pretty good considering the high temps all the travel I was on an airplane this morning
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getting back here so we could record this this afternoon but you know what it's always great to be just surrounded
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and enveloped by Corvette and Corvette people and it's really a celebration of the hobby when we're away and doing this
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stuff despite all the stuff that goes along with it it's a labor love I wouldn't miss these shows for anything I
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wouldn't trade it for the world my morning started at 5:00 a.m. I drove eight hours from Bowling Green back to
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Kansas City so you and I can record and I got to have this ready by midnight Eastern so we probably ought to get into
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the meat of the show shouldn't we you can do it Steve thank you for all the people that
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did come up to both Steve and I just telling us how much they love the show and they appreciate what they get out of
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the show not only do they tell us that they do the show or they listen to the show but they they tell us what what they're doing when they're listening to
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the show oh I'm commuting to work oh I'm on my morning walk oh this is the time that I'm doing blah blah blah so it's
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always interesting to talk to people actually I had a couple people say that I might talk a little too fast so it's
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just excitement and wanting to get to the meat of the info I'll try better to slow down a little bit and I know Steve
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with his editing whiz over there we don't want any listener fatigue that's right try to slow it down just a little
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bit but still make it fast and py enough for everybody to keep up thanks to everybody that came up to us we love you
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guys we do this for you and it is a labor of love all right buddy let's start off like we always do in news with
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a production update from the Bowling Green assembly plant yeah this is good being away I haven't really followed the
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day-to-day stuff like I normally can from the office here but with Carline on the 30th Anniversary shows now behind us
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I knew that we'd be seeing some Milestones to talk about with these production numbers early on we had predicted over a thousand e-rays and now
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we're actually seeing 1,134 e-rays have been produced wow Corvette team members told me that eay
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is now running 10% of total orders they haven't missed a day going back to the 4th of July break there they're building
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eray every day they're double digits almost every single day looks like they're really on their way to getting
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up to where they want to be with production so that's great news for the eay the other Milestone is the ZO6 which
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now has surpassed 10,168 units for 2024 Man Steve that's
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10,000 z6s this year amazing combine that with this I think the 6,400 last
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year 16,000 ZO6 has produced in two years so far so again amazing Testament to not only a fantastic car you know the
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thing is when you go to these shows the ZO6 is everywhere now before it was just such a novelty to see one here maybe one
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over there but they're everywhere so glad to see that Chevy is able to produce those maybe that's a Harbinger
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for what we might see with ZR1 you know being able to produce a superar in decent quantities just kind of throwing
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that out there but yeah 10,000 Z6 that's pretty incredible that is nice that's really good and then there Stingray the
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stingray now we're at 3,493 built for 2024 they go out to
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dealers and they get picked up right away even if the dealer ordered them for stock they're not sticking around too long and especially with these discounts
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out there you could really snag a great deal on a sting race when we add all three of these models up we get
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41,7 195 units already produced for the 2024 model year we've got 202s are
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expected to start in one week although we've actually heard from 3 different buyers saying that their 2024 has a tpw
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of 99 so we're not sure if they're able to end production on the Friday and start on the Monday or if it just will
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be a rolling start ending 202s on Monday or Tuesday and then kicking up with the 202s after that so that should be
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interesting to watch and we're going to be paying attention to that as far as the next order cycle goes dealers will
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get allocations on September 12th and then the order bank opens up on Thursday September 19th so they back that away
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just a week or two because of the Labor Day weekend September 19th will be the next ordering cycle for Corvettes I
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talked to Josh holder because we were talking about the roll out with the different colors you know with the hysteria when it came out they only did
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40 and then the second motorcycle rolled out I think it was 96 or so hysterias and then 96 competition yellows Josh
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says they like to do like a 25% a 50% a 75% and then 100% we should be getting
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some decent numbers I think with the third order cycle coming up with those new colors of course these colors were
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on display at the different shows and at the Corvette Museum and people really seem to like them we're expecting big
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things and we hope that Keith can finally finally order his hysteria purple eay it's GNA happen my friend
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it's GNA happen absolutely right Keith let's talk about Corvettes at Carl another great show put on by Lance
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Miller and everybody at Carlile events yeah this is always my favorite show of the year I can't Rave about it enough if
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you have never been it's really something to put on your bucket list now I know this year was a caravan year and you might have been traveling but this
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year's Carlile it featured obviously the new 2025 Corvette ZR1 I haven't seen excitement like that since probably when
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the C8 Stingray was first announced I mean there was obviously a lot of people excited about the Z06 but the crowd was
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Heavy in the tent when they pulled out the car on Friday to do the walk around you see see we got the video up it was
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standing room only all around the car just people were so excited to see it so yeah that really drew some crowds there
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of course Chevy had a competition yellow Z6 and I didn't talk to one person that was disappointed really see accelerate
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yellow being replaced so I think that new yellow is going to do very well yeah and then of Coursey also brought out a
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hysteria eay and then a new 2025 Stingray with the z51 wings showing off the new stuff we saw some new Wheels get
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to talk to the engineers in the tents Carlile was also our first chance to meet Tony Roma who was taking over for
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Taj who just retired this was his first time to attend Carlile and I think that he was pretty much Blown Away by the
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amount of activity of the show they say I heard about it but I never really thought it would be like this yeah not
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only do you have the crowds in the tent but you're just looking across the fairgrounds at a sea of Corvettes for
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people that love this stuff and love old cars and new cars they're something at Carlile for everyone they celebrated the
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50th anniversary of the 1974 Corvette there was a great reunion with the C4 Corvette challenge racing cars and some
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of their drivers we actually got a really cool video on YouTube showing these drivers getting behind the wheel of their former race cars and then
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driving up on a closed circuit at the show so pretty cool there in fact if you look in the background of that video
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you'll see one of the guys is doing donuts in his old Corvette challenge race car wow we learned that one of the
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reasons why that the ZR1 was released what it was was that Engineers needed to finish the car and they can't do it when
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it's wearing camouflage and of course the other little piece of news that we got about the ZR1 is that the team is
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going back to the nurur ring for some final testing you're probably not going to see a time we know that it would be a
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really fast time we don't understand this but we get it they're there to focus on development not on Fast Times
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the ZR1 is going back to the nurburg Rings we're going to hopefully see that sometime this fall as well yeah and Josh
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holder talked about that and they don't go to the nerur ring to set time they go there to tune the car and get the car
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right but the interesting thing was is they said they had four test drivers and on the first run for every test driver
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each one went over 200 M an hour I heard from multiple sources at both shows that
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if this thing doesn't go over 212 miles an hour they'll be very very disappointed yeah I think they've got
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this thing dialed in pretty well so pretty exciting but again that's the beauty of Carlile the ability to get up
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close with the engineers they'll listen to you they'll answer your questions you know if you go up and say what's the price going to be you they'll probably
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say oh we haven't set pricing yet we don't know availability or times yet but the stuff that they can tell you they'll
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definitely tell you they'll tell you about some of the even the issues they had blowing up dinos and their exhaust Stacks would get backed up because the
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way the ZR1 just pumps out the air through there carile that's the place to be in August hopefully you guys will
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listen to me and be there next year with your cars and be able to say hey Steve we listen to you on the podcast yeah and
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I did my two seminars one on Friday and one on Saturday so if you haven't seen the seminar about Corvette today Mark
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Corvettes at Carlile on your calendar for next year it is the Mecca and the best show in the country for Corvette it
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really is yep agreed also Keith let's talk about the ncm's 30th anniversary and Caravan that was a wild wild show
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yeah wild show so a week after Carlile 30th anniversary celebration of the National Corvette Museum which also
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brought in the National Corvette Caravans these Caravans do this every five years and they leave from all parts of the country now I don't have the
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exact count yet I thought it was over 3500 cars was what they were expecting but the crowds were huge the museum
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actually did a really good job of being able to handle all those people despite the high temps I mean it was really hot and Bolding green this weekend but the
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way they had stuff over at the Motorsports Park and then at the Museum and then they had big buses shuttling
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people back and forth so there was not too much weight times until the very end of the day when people were trying to get back over to park but then they
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might have waited 15 or 20 minutes before their bus took them over there so really good stuff of course we sat
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through a bunch of Seminars the Corvette team Corvette assembly plant did their stuff a great seminar by Jordan Le on
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the small block engineering of the V1 engine the lt7 yep our friends Michelin
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and mobile one offered Tech talks and some fun stuff of course Steve did his greatest hits of his podcast and then
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the trivia contest held by Ray at the Corvette assembly plant was a lot of fun as well and by the way we finished first
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again the preliminary round before getting crushed because they brought out a Corvette dream team so we're up
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against Harland guessing rpos and we had no shot against that right right that was still a lot of fun you know these
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shows are great so many people came up to us loving to hear the show love the podcast great to see everybody again
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we're going to be back at the Corvette museum in April for The Bash hopefully be talking about some 2026 information
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or maybe even seeing some customer Z1S with who knows if they'll be ready by then or if it'll be a little bit later
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but that's the great thing about the Corvette museum you do see that new stuff so if you're a late model Corvette
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fan that's a really great show to be at yeah I talked to acting CEO Bryce burklow and congratulations to Bryce and
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the entire staff there at the National Corvette Museum they had over 5,000 people registered and that's a lot of
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people for that museum they did a phenomenal job and like Keith said it was really really hot but they helped
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manage that really good we had a lot of Corvette Museum deliv which were a lot of fun and also again
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like Keith said I put a presentation together of the best of five years of Corvette today we'll be doing that again
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probably at Carlile we'll do some other ones coming up for the bash and then next year's anniversary celebration my
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hat is off to everybody at the National Corvette Museum they did a phenomenal job taking care of all the people that
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converged on Bowling Green the last thing we want to talk about Keith the Hall of Fame induction ceremony was
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outstanding outstanding so so they've got a new format if you've been previously it was always at the Sloan Convention Center which is the holiday
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end basically you sit around the round tables you get the choice of chicken or fish for your dinner then you'd see some
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speeches but here they just really kind of upped the factor like a true Corvette Hall of Fame should be this is an honor
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people are dressed up we're in a really nice theater the Southern Kentucky Performing Art Center they call it Sky
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pack a really cool theater up on the stage they had three cars they had a race car to represent GM racing they had
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a 65 66 Corvette to represent the Enthusiast and then they had the brand new ZR1 up there to represent GM just a
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wonderful show that they put on of course the people that were inducted Oliver Gavin and Yan Magnuson in the
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racing category Richard Prince author historian photographer he was chosen for the Enthusiast category and then of
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course needing no introduction Taj Jer retired Corvette chief engineer was the GM category each of the inductees were
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featured in the video and then a current Hall of Fame member invited them up on stage they gave their little award and
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then they made these remarks we had all kinds of special guests in the house GM president Mark Royce was there GM vice
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president of Motorsports Jim Campbell ton of Corvette racing people obviously with Oliver Yan and Richard being there
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you know there was a ton of Corvette racing P Johnny O Connell saw him Gary Pratt was there with his wife Robin Yan
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couldn't make it he's actually managing a racing team in the WC and they were in Kota on Sunday again a fantastic evening
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I did talk to Mariah at the Museum they are going to be putting out the video and photos probably early this week
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probably after Labor Day obviously we will have that as soon as we get our hands on that we're going to post that so this week if you want to sit back and
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watch an hour an hour and a half show of the cream of the crop of Corvette people this is the show to watch the Hall of
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Fame celebration fantastic two weeks we appreciate meeting these new fans and Steve I don't know about you but I'm
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actually looking forward to a little bit of sleep yeah you and me both buddy and I'm also looking forward to seeing that video because just in case you didn't
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know and you couldn't attend there is a brand new rapid blue ztk C8 ZR1 on stage
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looked fantastic that should be out on the streets or at some other shows coming up but man that was brand new as
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a matter of fact it was built last week so it's brand new ZR1 it was awesome
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looking yeah I did see that the VIN number on it was number 39 Oh the one thing that we did see on it too is it
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had the dark blue calipers it's always signature color on the calipers for the ZR1 yeah and we saw them last night
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really cool stuff yeah well Keith let's take our first break buddy when we come back it's Corvette racing and Corvette
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number two we always cover Corvette racing and Corvette rumors first in the racing category Keith dxdt ran at the GT
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World Challenge America how did they do you know this seems cleaning up I mean they are unbelievable so dxdt racing
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they're in the GT World Challenge America Series so no prototypes just GT cars gt3s and gt4s where we got Tommy
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Milner in one of the cars and he's paired up with Alex Udell this was the fifth race in a row that Tommy and Alex
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have won they came in first and second the way the format too is they'll go into a venue like Road America and
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there'll be two races over the weekend there's a Saturday race and then a Sunday race and the great thing is that
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they show these Live on YouTube as we've been covering these I've been trying to put the links in there beforehand and
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then in the race Recaps I'm actually able to embed the races so anybody can go back in and watch a little bit of their racing action so definitely would
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put dxdt racing on your watch list if you really like Corvette racing their next race actually is going to be this
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weekend September 68th at Barber Motorsports Park near Birmingham we'll get the YouTube link so when we do the
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preview this week we'll actually have those embedded there so people know where to find them again if you go to YouTube and just search GT World
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Challenge America make sure you put the America in there because I believe there's a Europe version and an Asian version as well gotcha GT World
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Challenge America and you should be all set exciting news for Tommy I mean five wins in a row how often does that happen
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yeah it's good to hear dxdt is cleaning up that's awesome now with that being said Corvette racing did have a very bad
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outing at Virginia International Raceway didn't they yeah very uncharacteristic both cars had some mechanical Gremlins
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really kind of knocked it back which is a shame because vir is one of our home tracks it's a track that we generally do
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very well in the number four Corvette with Tommy Milner and Nikki catsburg finished eight while Alexander Sims and
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Antonio Garcia would finish ninth in the race not too good of a result there but on the flip side this is one of the
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benefits of having cars in multiple classes in the GTD we had AWA racing
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their number 133 car finished seven overall in GTD and it was their best result of the season so these guys are
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creeping up a little bit I definitely keep an eye on them because they're really seeming to get the feel of the
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car down of course probably sharing some information back and forth with the Corvette racing team and the pro drivers
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there they're also getting awards for some other things as well like the amateur driver award Corvette racing in
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insa will be headed to Indianapolis for the battle of the bricks that's a six-hour endurance race held September
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19th and 22nd at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway can't wait to watch that I just love watching anything that happens at
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IMs of course the brickyard and all that stuff so that should be good that's cool and also AWA announced the return of the
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Z06 gt3r for next year which is good they did yeah so they confirmed that they're coming back to GTD class good
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the number 13 car will be driven Again by oray fidani and Matt Bell and again you know you put a sophomore season
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together you take everything that you've learned from that first season you applied to the second season we're still working out some stuff obviously with
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Gremlin wise but these cars are becoming more and more reliable each and every time we go out on the tracks glad to see
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them returning and we're expecting great things in GTD from the number 13 Corvette nice in the rumors section we
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had a couple ones a couple juicy ones we had an r-ray taking on a Z6 en roll races didn't they yeah these are just
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two guys wanted to go one was a Z06 driver one was an eay driver and you know there just hasn't been a lot of
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these two cars racing against each other what they did was they did just a couple roll races from different speeds they
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did a 20 mph roll a 30 mph roll 40 m roll Etc and then they had multiple
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angles of cameras shown on the cars the r-ray is quicker all-wheel drive allows power to be put to the road but the Z6
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is faster overall again sometimes has some traction issues putting that power to the ground so I actually met the Z6
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driver at Carlile he goes under dbm racing although he's a Z6 driver at hard I think he found some new respect for
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the eay yeah probably also it's coming back again we're hearing that an
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electric Stingray and a COR SUV might be back somewhere down the road right yeah
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you know well everything's getting pushed back and this is from a previous report there's an auto forecasting company originally said we might see a
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Corvette SUV around 2025 or 2026 so stuff's getting pushed back and that's generally we're okay with that yeah let
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them get the time to get it right but also the Market's got to mature a little bit more and stuff like that of course the Corvette people are behind the curve
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on that as well we just see that from the eay and some of the comments that we hear about that according to the forecast company we could see an
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electric Corvette Stingray in June of 2029 and then that'll be followed up by a Corvette SUV in June of 2030 more
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interestingly they say that both cars are going to be made at General Motors Lancing Grand River plant in Lancing Michigan again I think anything that's
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going to be EV related initially will probably be built closer to GM's Detroit area while we'll have the ice cars
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continuing down here in Bowling Greens that's my thoughts on that we've been seeing a lot of the pure EVS being
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pushed back across the board we think electric Corvette is probably still on the table you know when you look at some of the seminars we saw you know with the
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ZR1 engine they had their first prototypes done in 2015 so think about what you were doing in 2015 we were
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talking about the first year of the return of the stingray and then we had the Corvette ZO6 The Supercharged lt4
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meanwhile they're working on the ZR1 for 2025 so 10 years ago that's just
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incredible yeah the good news is Corvette's selling 40,000 C8 per year they're making a ton of GM money so far
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I don't think they would just say oh let's just stop that we'll go straight to EVS I think if they do anything there'll be like a dual production route
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where you have the ice engine cars and then you have the EVS the EVS will be limited but it might offer some
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tantalizing performance so we'll be watching that yeah that's a big old Honker juicy rumor Keith I don't know if
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I'm drinking the Kool-Aid on the Electric Stingray or the Corvette SUV we'll just wait and see the C8 has got a
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lot of life left in it so this will be something very cool to watch that's all we can do is sit back and watch G we're
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still talking five six years out yeah definitely all right buddy time for our final break when we come back it's the
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go to Corvette blogger.com in this final segment we always cover the lighter side of Corvette Keith this was so cool Mark
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Roy visited Jay Lenard garage with a ZR1 wow yeah Jay Leto finally got it up
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close look at the 2025 Corvette ZR1 of course there was three Blue Devil cars yeah the 2009 Z1S and he has one of
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those so obviously he is a ZR1 fan Mark Roy come and Royce also brings his dad's
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1967 Corvette to the show as well you now his dad was Lloyd Royce who was a
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former GM president as well kind of cool they're keeping that in the family again neat to see the old Corvette the new
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Corvette feature together really this episode you know sometimes they'll do some driving was actually just an in
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studio walk around they actually filmed it I believe before the reveal happened so it was embargoed but we are promised
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a driving video which might be coming next so I'm excited to see that because Jay's got a little bit of a Lead Foot
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and he likes to go for it so we'll see that of course Remember Jay and Taj drove over 200 miles an hour in the 2019
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Corvette ZR1 yes they did one of the funny parts I thought was Jay was trying to get the price out of Mark but Mark
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wouldn't budge he would only say that quote true to Corvette tradition aspirational but attainable and then he
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also says it's the best amount of horsepower per Buck out there yeah that was probably the big question that
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everybody was asking what's the price going to be when's it coming all that of course they don't know yet they're not finished with it yet they're not even
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done with some of the development stuff as we talked before cool to see that on Jay Leno's Garage you can catch that on
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YouTube on the Corvette blogger as well I'm really looking forward to the driving part me too and I want to hear the price we probably won't have that
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till February so just no going down the road we're not going to have the price till next year it's all good I still
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want to see the drive as well also Keith you and I saw this up close in personal at Corvettes of carile one of the lifts
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broke while they were doing an install I was worried about the Corvette up on the lift oh it was a scary thing actually I
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missed this but I heard all about it what had happened was a four poost lift had cable failure and then it buckled
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with a rapid blue C8 Stingray stuck on very scary but the solution was to call in a flatbed wrecker and this guy did
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great it was caught on video and uploaded to YouTube so that's how we know what happened here but the flatbed record positioned his roll back
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carefully and then allowed the Corvette to be backed off off the lift and onto the wrecker kudos to those involved with
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a successful rescue I said that the owner probably needed a drink and a new pair of shorts after that experience
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yeah I saw the thing up close and personal I was there while they were doing it it scared the Living Daylights out of me yeah I would have been a wreck
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watching that as as well yeah but everybody was so professional and the Corvette was not harmed whatsoever kudos
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to all those guys also Keith we learned that heeden Mobility group is going to take on Corvette sales and service in
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Continental Europe that's kind of different from what we've heard before isn't it yeah but it sounds like an
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expansion you know we don't get European news I don't know if it's timely this was a press release that was put out by
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them so Corvette sales in Continental Europe will be supported by the heat Mobility group and their subsidi so
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they've already got dealerships Service locations they're already supporting the Corvette as the distributor in Sweden
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Norway and Finland okay so it just sounds like GM says hey you know what I like what you guys are doing up there in
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northern Europe let's go ahead on the continent and you guys can handle that as well I saw some of their stats they
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sell a lot of cars they've got a lot of locations hopefully this will allow Corvette buyers to be able to get over
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there and buy their car the way they need to yeah that's really cool and our final item on the show tonight Keith our
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buddy Justin from horsepower obsessed showed us the most overlooked maintenance item on Corvette what was
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that and I would have guessed this he was talking about cabin air filters the more I dove into this I was like you
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know this is interesting because if you go through the owner's manual it tells you how to change the cabin air filter
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but there's no schedule of maintenance on there Justin suggested maybe doing it every once a year when you're doing
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their oil change they're really easy to do so he was at a car show when he busted out this video and he actually
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changed the cabin air filters on both a C7 model and a C8 model the C8 model's a
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little bit easier but the C7 certainly can be done you can get these filters on Amazon for $115 with the activated
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charcoal to block out some smells if you don't want smelly air to come in your cabin that's a good way to keep that
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clean is with these cabin air filters I'm in the South our pollen is crazy a couple times a year and so that is a
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great way to also to make sure that you don't have those ear tins getting into the car itself through your AC or through your vent yeah have the cabin
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airil who would have known if you've ever seen a cabin air filter after it's taken out of the car you'll want to
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change it more than you really do right now that was a great idea and thanks to Justin at horsepower obsessed he's been
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