The C8 Corvette ZR1’s incredible 1,064 horsepower brings with it a lot of superlatives. Add this sudden one to the checklist: Extra highly effective than the race automobiles it’s going to tempo to inexperienced at this 12 months’s Indy 500.
An IndyCar’s 2.2-liter turbocharged V-6 makes about 700 horsepower on its highest enhance setting, give or take a couple of horsepower. According to the Indianapolis Star, the hybrid system that debuted within the sequence partway by the 2024 season and making its 500 debut this 12 months, provides round 60 horsepower. So determine someplace close to or beneath the 800-hp mark.
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This could be the primary time ever the Indy 500 tempo automobile has extra energy than automobiles it is pacing. And never just a little extra horsepower, over 250 extra horsepower.
Clearly, the Corvette just isn’t sooner than an Indy 500 machine. The brand new ZR1 can top out at 233 mph, however in qualifying, the quickest automobiles operating the five hundred ought to common that type of velocity round 4 laps of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. That is the good thing about a lot decrease weight, slick tires, and downforce. Nonetheless, it is a humorous reflection on the state of contemporary efficiency automobiles, and the monster output of the ZR1 that the one with a VIN has extra energy.
Chevrolet has supplied Indy 500 tempo automobiles completely since 2002, they usually’ve been Corvettes since 2017. Former soccer professional and Good Morning America host Michael Strahan is the movie star visitor pace-car driver this 12 months—a powerful alternative, on condition that he is an enormous automobile fanatic with a pleasant assortment. The tempo automobile wears a cultured livery of inexperienced and gold over white, and naturally, it will get the ZR1’s Carbon Aero bundle, for optimum downforce.
If you wish to see the tempo automobile in motion—in addition to what is certain to be a top-notch race—the Indy 500 is about for Sunday Could twenty fifth with the published beginning at Midday on Fox.
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