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183 MPH on the back straight away! Awesome! I wonder what the new C8s do.

They took some camo test mules over and ran them.

I'd be happy with an older ZR-1. Maybe a 93 to 95 C4.

I really don't understand why anyone would take a car designed and built to be sold to the masses, or a small portion of the masses and all of a sudden think they are an experienced "racer". Yeah I know there a lot of amateur shade tree mechanics out there who have the ability and tools required to transform a stock vehicle into one capable of running high speed on a track. But most people don't. They think because they plunked down a big wad of cash and now have a BMW M3, Mercedes Benz AMG, Ferrari, Lambo, Corvette or any of the others that they just bought a professional, fully prepped race car. In some ways they have, in the hands of a professional race car driver who knows how to drive a car at high speeds these mass marketed cars can do amazing things. I've read many posts on this forum and others from guys who own American muscle or sports cars and that's all well and good. Do you really think your C7 is prepared exactly like the ones you see running the 24 Hrs. of Lemans or any other race similar to that, because I don't believe for one minute they are. My days of wanting to drive fast have long since past, however I love watching those who are paid large sums of money to drive vehicles prepared to do only one thing, go fast. I've seen this youtube video before and it just shows you sometimes can't fix stupid.

There are at least four such tracks in Arizona.

Impressive. He has driven that track before. Pretty relaxed at speed. The average time for a lap that is 12+ minutes. He did it in less than 8.

Jeff, it hit me hard to realize what training will do for a driver when I took a course at the Bob

Bondurant School of High Performance Driving. They loaded 10 of us in a stock Ford Van. The driver was a young guy and I had a video camera with me to film the lap.

All I got on film was a blurred video of everyone being flung to the right and left as the van went around curves and over hills. I never would have thought that a vehicle like that could be driven like that by a young driver like that who had his left arm resting on the open window sill as if it was a Sunday drive. That van, in the hands of one of us, would have crashed and burned on the first curve.

I went to Bondurant's school as well. My course was a week long.

On the first day, we went on the same van ride. It taught us respect for those who knew how to drive well. By the time we graduated, we were bombing formula V's around the track like Fangio! Well...maybe not exactly like Fangio.

You would have to produce a triple-platinum VISA card beforehand wouldn't you?

Are the cars supplied to use Frank?

Yep, all it takes is a professional driver with a factory race car.

What car(s) did you use John?

A guy I once worked with went there too. He said it was an incredible learning experience. He also said there was no messing about and if you crashed it, you paid for it.

Yes he obviously knows the track like the back of his hand. Very, very impressive!

Meant to write, "I'd love to drive the 'Ring." Never been there but I'd do it in a heartbeat.

At Summit, I took a Miata I had, an Altima V6/6 speed (an amazing car), and a few Suzukis I used to ride. If I get the chance this summer, I'll take the Fiesta.

Drive your own or rent one. You break it you buy it.

That was a serious course, not to mention expensive. I did the Fun Run with my son. They gave us

Mustang GTs and Cadillace CTS-Vs to drive. It was a blast.