A Camaro lapped the Nurburgring fast enough to rank among the 15 quickest production cars ever recorded there, and it was not extra horsepower that got it there. Here is how the Camaro ZL1 1LE shaved over 13 seconds off its own sister cars lap time.
This generation has been considered as the “Renaissance of the Muscle Car” and the Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 has been considered to be the best in the market yet. Pegged as the fastest, the model had been installed with cutting-edge performance technology. However, if a consumer had set his or her eyes on purchasing one, holding out for a short time may be a good idea as the 2017 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 will get a distinct exterior design soon.
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When the Camaro ZL1 1LE lapped the Nurburgring Nordschleife in 7:16.04, it did not just set a record for the fastest Camaro ever around the Green Hell, it landed inside the top 15 fastest production cars ever recorded there, muscle car or otherwise. That is not a stat most people expect from a car built around a decades-old American formula: big supercharged V8, rear-wheel drive, a manual gearbox. The bigger surprise is how much of that lap time came down to a transmission choice most buyers would not think twice about.
The Lap That Rewrote the Record Books
The ZL1 1LEs 7:16.04 lap ranks as the 14th fastest time ever set by a production car at the Nurburgring, and it beat the standard Camaro ZL1s own record, a 2017 ZL1 had already run 7:29.6, itself a strong number for a muscle car. What made the 1LE faster was not more power, it was 13.56 seconds gained largely through Multimatic spool-valve dampers, aggressive aerodynamics, and a manual gearbox instead of the ZL1s optional 10-speed automatic, which had posted the slower time the year before.
What Is Actually Under the Hood
Both ZL1 variants share the same 650-horsepower, 6.2-liter supercharged LT4 V8, but the 1LE package adds sticky Goodyear Eagle F1 Supercar 3R tires and suspension hardware tuned specifically to keep that power planted through a tracks bumps and elevation changes rather than just in a straight line. It is the combination, not a bigger engine, that let a mass-produced Camaro trade paint with cars costing several times as much.
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