{"id":68898,"date":"2012-08-19T22:03:53","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T05:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=68898"},"modified":"2012-08-19T22:19:51","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T05:19:51","slug":"sports-car-video-corvette-zr1-at-nurburgring-just-doing-his-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=68898","title":{"rendered":"Sports Car Video &#8211; Corvette ZR1 at N\u00c3\u00bcrburgring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">To demonstrate the improvements on the 2012 Corvette, Chevrolet has returned to the N\u00c3\u00bcrburgring with the range-topping ZR1.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As the video shows, the car &#8211; which features a supercharged 6.2-liter V8 engine with 638 hp (476 kW \/ 647 PS) and 604 lb-ft (818 Nm) of torque &#8211; lapped the legendary Nordschleife in 7:19.63 which is more than six seconds faster than the previous Corvette record that was set back in 2008.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">To get the improved time, the ZR1 was equipped with the new PDE performance package which has a full-width rear spoiler and Michelin Pilot Sport Cup Zero Pressure tires that are &#8220;optimized for warm, dry conditions to increase cornering and handling capability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/NxaQ1hd6DMw?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/NxaQ1hd6DMw?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>ZR1 Smokes GT-R: Chevy Corvette ZR1 vs. Nissan GT-R<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mC-PQca6FJU?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mC-PQca6FJU?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To demonstrate the improvements on the 2012 Corvette, Chevrolet has returned to the N\u00c3\u00bcrburgring with the range-topping ZR1. As the video shows, the car &#8211; which features a supercharged 6.2-liter V8 engine with 638 hp (476 kW \/ 647 PS) and 604 lb-ft (818 Nm) of torque &#8211; lapped the legendary Nordschleife in 7:19.63 which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-sports-car","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68898"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68901,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68898\/revisions\/68901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}