‘Ring-a-Ding-DING! GT350R Allegedly Pokes Hole in Z/28’s Nürburgring Time

‘Ring-a-Ding-DING! GT350R Allegedly Pokes Hole in Z/28’s Nürburgring Time

’Ring-a-Ding-DING! GT350R Allegedly Pokes Hole in Z/28’s Nürburgring Time

Has the GT350R shown the Z/28 its taillights around Germany’s Nürburgring?

As of however, there is no independent confirmation on this, but British mag Evo is claiming that Ford’s new Shelby GT350R has lapped the Nürburgring in 7:32.19, a lot more than a second quicker than Chevy’s monstrous Z/28, which did the deed in 7:37.47.

Prior to the GT350’s unveiling at last year’s L.A. Auto Show, a source told us to count on a car that would run close to the Z/28, though it may possibly not turn in very the exact same overall performance figures as the track-focused Camaro. He assured us that we’d see a accurate competitor to the bow-tie track rat at the Detroit show—one capable of knocking it off its modern day-day roadgoing Trans-Am–car pedestal.

When we found out that Ford had gone to the difficulty and expense of fitting carbon-fiber wheels on a vehicle that will retail for significantly less than $ 100,000, we had been inclined to believe our source’s claims. This new rumor does practically nothing at all to dispel our faith in that belief. Certainly, we can’t wait to put an R through our Virginia International Raceway torture test.

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You may possibly recall that at final year’s Lightning Lap, the Z/28 came inside a tenth of a second of Ferrari’s F12berlinetta and posted a 1.16 lateral-grip number—giving it skidpad parity with the Porsche 918 Spyder. Have we reached peak super(pony)vehicle? Likely not, as the subsequent Camaro is due to be drastically lighter and will be primarily based on GM’s Alpha platform—the basic guts that underpin the sweet-handling Cadillac ATS and CTS. Fifty-a single years soon after Plymouth and Ford launched the segment, the battle for ponycar supremacy rages on. Rage on, superponycars. Rage on.

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’Ring-a-Ding-DING! GT350R Allegedly Pokes Hole in Z/28’s Nürburgring Time

IMSA Announcers Leak Mustang GT350R On-Track Debut Timing—Street GT350 Imminent?

August 5, 2014 at 7:08 pm by Steve Siler | Photography by YouTube/IMSAVids, Chris Doane Automotive, and the Manufacturer

Offered the copious quantity of speaking completed by announcers for the duration of auto races, a lot can be lost. But our sharp-eared—if that’s a thing—friends at Mustang6G picked up on a telling comment produced in minute 39 of this weekend’s Indianapolis Motor Speedway broadcast: “And correct now what’s in development is that GT350 race car for subsequent year. We must see that auto on the track later this September.”

As Mustang6G points out, the only IMSA event in September is the Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge in Austin at the Circuit of the Americas, which takes spot on September 19.

Whilst the announcer was referring to the track-only GT350R, this off-the-cuff comment suggests to us that the introduction of the streetable version of the 2015 Mustang Shelby GT350 could be imminent, possibly occurring just prior to the racing version tends to make its debut. Of course, it is not impossible that Ford will show the salable auto later, as Chevrolet did when it unveiled the NASCAR version of its SS some weeks just before pulling the sheets from the production model.

But our most recent GT350 spy shots from the Nürburgring show a really comprehensive-looking (and poor-ass!) vehicle that seems to be in its final verification and improvement phase. We don’t think that we’re alone in our anticipation of Ford stripping off the camo and revealing what promises to be one particular of the greatest Mustangs in history.

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IMSA Announcers Leak Mustang GT350R On-Track Debut Timing—Street GT350 Imminent?