Speed limit on Nurburgring track puts an extra pressure on General Motors and Tadge Juechter to disclose the 2015 Corvette C7 Z06 lap time

When in October 2014, after Capricorn defaulted on its payments for Nurburgring track, something unthinkable happened: a RUSSIAN named Viktor Kharitonin jumped on the opportunity and bought the financially ailing track.  Even though this event made Adolf Hitler turn once again in his undisclosed grave (ironically enough, dug up by the Soviets) and Josef Stalin proud, the usual Corvette sheep missed that event, as expected (too busy dealing with orange peel?).

Under Russian reign, some of the things have changed at the Nurburgring, including the $25k copyright fee that had to be paid before results or video of the Nurburgring runs could be announced and published.  Certainly, a novel but not really outrageous way of generating extra income the Russian organized crime style and something that +General Motors had to suck up due to the previous failed attempt organized by +Tadge Juechter (25 grand could buy lots of burgers and doughnuts for portly Jim Mero, incidentally).

Nevertheless, since three times is a charm, the Corvette team made another desperate attempt to make the porker Z06 live up to the marketing hype and Juechter's bullshit and conducted another run on May 18th, 2015, three weeks after Lamborghini Aventador suprised the automotive world with its sub seven lap run in the end of April of this year.

As already pointed out SEVERAL TIMES on this blog, Juechter, the same douchebag who claimed to find the (finally) complete lap time "pleasing", has refused to disclose this "pleasing lap time now for exactly one month and it seems, he may never disclose this time (to his credit, there is plenty of Corvette idiots who took up themselves to figure out this lap time all on their own, LMAO).

And here is another development, there is a speed limit on a couple of long straights at Nurburgring for cars attempting to make a speed run on the track, cutting the max speed to 155 mph (for a sense of perspective, Koenigsegg managed a mind blowing 250 mph on one of those straights a while ago.

Although the speed limit (temporary) was already established at Nurburgring back in April 2015 (as a result of a fatality among the spectators), the limit applied to VLN racing events only, with manufacturers making record runs being exempt.  However, since June 16, this temporary speed limit has been applied across the board, including those speed runs.

As a result of this action (clearly a result of the new Russian owner either not willing to spend the money or have sufficient time to implement any safeguards at the track) and most ironically of all things, the latest Corvette C7 Z06 run happened to be the very last one of the manufacturers record setting variety.

This twist of events puts douchebag Juechter and GM in a very tight spot: since this may be the very last Nurburgring run for any Corvette, it not only should be disclosed but it better be a fucking super impressive one, a lap time that can be on par with the Aventador to leave that long lasting legacy for Corvette and allow for the propagation of the Corvette myth  among potential buyers.

Certainly, using the speed limit as an excuse not to disclose the time cannot be used, Juechter already stated how pleased he was with the time and mentioned no speed limit restriction.  Can 25k stop GM from disclosing the time?  Lamborghini had no issue with paying the ransom and VW is considerably smaller than GM as far as automakers go but... Lamborghini managed to record a very impressive time, thus, VW had a great incentive to disclose it at all, just like Nissan did before. 

So what gives here?  First of all, that bullshit "pleasing result" is not quantifiable, subject to interpretation and most of all, the frame of reference.  IF the time is better than of the last Z06 and ZR1 and this is the real yard stick, then yes, Juechter can claim that self gratification but... there is a big problem here: the newest Z06 is supposed to be a bargain "world class supercar" and thus, the previous ZR1 becomes insignificant. 

Under these conditions, what matters are the lap times for the Generation 4 Dodge Viper ACR, Nissan GTR Nismo and of course, the Lamborghini.

Now, considering how flawed and underdesigned and underperforming the latest Z06 flagship is, chances are very good that this piece of shit might have barely edged the last ZR1 but fell very short of even surpassing the Generation 4 Viper ACR.

Without any doubt, this is the most likely scenario and the reason why the latest Nurburgring time, even though it is the very last one, may never be made public.  After all, the Corvette sheep would not be able to stomach the fact that the newest and greatest Corvette cannot keep up with considerably older, less sophisticated and less powerful vehicle from the competing automaker.

To make clear, the current time lapse (over one month now) is already a resounding failure for GM and newest flagship and things can only go downhill from here (pun fully intended).

A note to Tadge Juechter, do not even attempt to excuse yourself from disclosing the laptime using the speed limit excuse, it is not a legitimate excuse, no matter how many GM and Corvette nut huggers you may be able to convince.  Either put up or shut the fuck up permanently and start designing golf carts.

A sidenote: unlike with past Corvettes, I cannot come up with a single reason not to continue ownership of my Generation 4 Viper, LOL...