OK, let's take a breath for a moment. Have I got this right?
* One lap of America via numerous road courses,
* Many manufacturers involved,
* Corvette have put an E-ray into the mix.
Who is out front?
Is there a reason the E-ray appears to be lagging? Is it, for instance, that E-ray is set up for short bursts of high power as opposed to full throttle all day?
There are 77 cars entered this year
Anyone, even you, could enter if you pay the fee to do so
The first event was how well a car did on a short O shaped road that water is spraying on, so a skid pad
If you look at my forum link above I posted, click on the skid pad recorded video of each car doing this
where the E-Ray scored way back in
63rd place
Skid pad is not about horsepower or torque and speeds are very low, it is about the design of the car in its suspension design and type of tires used
You would think listening to GM that the E-Ray is all about 4-wheel drive in corners, so you would have thought it would have scored way towards the top when if you look at the results several other older Corvettes scored better.
If you look at the race map above, cars at each stop must perform, then drive hundreds of miles to the next race event, over like the next 7 days so they travel round trip covering maybe 4,000 miles and run on 6 racetracks
I think it was dumb of GM to use the first model year of E-Ray in a race like this with worldwide press on this race and if the E-Ray finishes poorly
First place went to a 2011 Lotus Evora S
Being the races are far apart and use public roads to get to each,
common for some to get pulled over by cops for doing high speeds on roads with speed limits like 65 MPH
There have been a few guys killed during the past One Lap of America races