Page with lots of links:
https://www.caranddriver.com/lightning-lap/
Historical now including 2019:
https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a ... ical-data/
Everything that was faster in 2019 than the Camaro ZL1 1LE cost between $212k and nearly $1M.
Also, said Camaro ZL1 1LE is now only 0.4 seconds slower than a 2015 Corvette Z06, with the same engine and more weight. Not bad. #13 and #12, 2:45.0 and 2:44.6, respectively. I am predicting the C8 Z51 is going to run around this range. That will be ridiculous.
The Corvette ZR1 holds the #3 all time fastest lap with 2:39.5.
I'm pretty sure it must be Ford who is forbidding comparisons with Camaros on their halo Mustangs. It's ridiculous. The GT350R ran 2:51.8 which is #41 all time. I am really not sure the GT500 has what it takes to topple the ZL1 1LE here.
Also note, Corvette Grand Sport ran 2:47.1 in the 2016 LL and that is still good for #22 overall. There is a very long list of cars below it that make more than the LT1's 460 hp.
The Lamborghini Urus is amazing. It lapped a second faster than a CTS-V3. It weighs almost 5,000 lbs and costs $255,454, so, meh?
The Alfa is garbage (in terms of quality) as usual. I mean it's really comical. For some reason they used a 2018, also. That's just strange. It seems that the trash talking about quality isn't really an overstatement.
Back in 2017, the Giulia Quadrifoglio ran a 2:58.6 while plagued with a fuel-delivery problem and wearing a worn set of Pirelli P Zero Corsa Asimmetrico 2s. Alfa sat out 2018's event, but this year, the brand sent a fresh four-leafed Giulia to VIR in hopes of a better—and more importantly, trouble-free—showing.
Through the warm-up laps, this thing was as good as we remembered: The Giulia's immediate steering, innate cornering balance, and 505-hp twin-turbo V-6 felt remarkable. And then the problems started.
Over the years, we've had several love affairs with Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglios, and despite their temperamental and tortured souls, we still love them and wish them the very best.
The first sign of trouble was an instrument-cluster warning acknowledging an "active aero system failure." It didn't slow the car in an obvious way, so we kept going. But then the dreaded "service electronic throttle control" alert began to appear intermittently, and that did slow the car in an obvious way. When ambient temps climbed, the "dynamic drive control system failure" warning arrived to let us know that the torque-vectoring rear differential had overheated and reverted to an open differential. It's an unmistakable change that turns your Italian sports sedan into a one-tire-fire machine, smoking at every corner exit.
On our best lap, the torque-vectoring diff held it together until Hog Pen, where it gave up and the inside tire spun with smoke-filled fervor as the Giulia tried to rocket onto the front straight. Despite the car's many issues, the Giulia's quickest time this year was a 1.4-second improvement over its 2017 time.
At the end of the last day, the Alfa started to smell of coolant. We found a tiny leak near a hose clamp on one of the Giulia's air-to-liquid intercoolers—a parting gift identical to a problem experienced by our long-term Giulia Quadrifoglio. Like that car, this Giulia was pure magic in the brief moments that it was working properly.