2018 Chevy Camaro ZL1 1LE Nurburgring Lap
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- Опубліковано 21 чер 2017
- The 2018 Camaro ZL1 1LE has conquered the Green Hell in a new video from Chevrolet, lapping the Nürburgring’s 12.9-mile (20.8 km) Nordschleife (“north loop”) in only 7:16.04, making it the fastest Camaro to ever lap the famed German track.
The ZL1 1LE’s time is quick enough to place it 13.56 seconds ahead of the Camaro ZL1 with 10-speed automatic that Chevrolet tested last year.
“With chassis adjustability unlike any vehicle in its peer group, the Camaro ZL1 1LE challenges supercars from around the world regardless of cost, configuration or propulsion system,” said Al Oppenheiser, Camaro chief engineer. “To make up more than a second per mile on the Nordschleife compared to the ZL1 automatic is a dramatic improvement and speaks to the 1LE’s enhanced track features.”
The Camaro ZL1 1LE takes Chevrolet’s track-focused 1LE legacy to an even higher level, with racing-based adjustable suspension components - including Multimatic DSSV® (Dynamic Suspension Spool Valve) front and rear dampers - special front dive planes and carbon-fiber rear wing, and exclusive Goodyear Eagle F1 Supercar 3R summer-only tires,* in an extreme track performance package powered by the 650-horsepower LT4 supercharged V-8 engine.
The Nürburgring lap time was achieved with the ZL1 1LE test car’s suspension adjusted for optimal track performance and running the production Goodyear tires.
“The harder you push the Camaro ZL1 1LE, the more it rewards you on the track,” said Bill Wise, Camaro ride and handling engineer and the driver of the hot lap. “It offers total control, with the confidence that it will deliver lap after lap.”
The 2018 Camaro ZL1 1LE (order code A1Z) carries an MSRP of $69,995, which includes a $995 destination charge (excludes tax, title, license, dealer fees extra). It goes on sale this summer.
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The performance for the dollar with the ZL1 really is off the charts! This driver was incredible and the speed of his gear changes were blistering and an absolute joy to watch.
I think it’s fair to say he knows the track, and loves it for the challenge.
@@wjumeau Not really. He was there in Germany for a few days for this run. Sure he made many laps before this one but he lives in the USA.
Jesus is coming. Submit to Christ or perish,,
@@camilosanchez831 These jesus posts are really starting to sound threatening
@@camilosanchez831 Jesus doesnt need people like you to deliver his message.
Best 8+ minute commercial for the Camaro ZL1 1LE ever made. What a machine!! Props to a B/A driver, too!
Nah best Camaro commercial is the Transformer movies
@@zarifamsyar6274 Transformers suck.
@@zarifamsyar6274 moronic zoomer
168 MPH in 5th gear. Wow. Tires did a lot of talking. I wonder how many times he's driven that car on The Ring to get that good and that confident. Amazing.
The lap he had done just before this one was even faster at a 7:13. They didn't have the official timers on the previous lap, but GM's own data recorders captured the time. There is another video on UA-cam that discusses this 7:16 lap, and they mention that they did an even faster lap.
The precision and speed of those shifts is incredible
Holy freaking shot!!!! Dude.. Just Badass... I don't know if any of y'all noticed,but this guy can flat out drive. Talk about being on the edge, I believe this guy decides where it's located. To the driver, Thanks for the ride along! Absolutely stunning what you do with that Camaro ZL1....
I agree. That driver has great skills and talent.
@@magnus9165 don't he though.... I tried to imagine chasing him down, could not fathom even keeping pace, not gonna catch him... now he's chasin' me... I ain't getting away , doesn't matter what I do..and he makes both look easy..
And brass ba---
💯 Now That how you drive ! 👍🏽
That driver is incredibly talented.
Yeah the car need best driver....to give it's capabilities
Incredibly bold too
So is the Camaro
What a driver, what a car, this was 5 years ago, and still very few completely showroom stock cars could touch this time even today.
BMW M4csl just beat it. Porsche 911gt3 beat it, MercedesGT just beat it, . Plenty of stock cars can beat it. Not many can beat it that cost the same. Probably none.
@@jostrander71 Not true.
@@user-Dr. Electric start of the gas motor yes.
It's the only American pony car that did it
@@Bruce.-Wayne Ford doesn't do the Nurburgring thing. If they did bring out the current GT500 with track package and say Robert Kubica or Randy Pobst driving it would probably be faster than the ZL1 1le. The GT500s extra 110hp would do very well in those long straights.
I always figured Ford would at least run their GT supercar around that track but I was wrong.
You need balls for this! Great driving skills.
Great Big Brass Ones. Really, REALLY BIG.
Yes it's a street car. No rollbar
@@markhathaway8000 yes, but no. If you look at it they added a main hoop and back stays, probably just for driver safety.
I have the balls but no skills... so the balls took a leave of absence now.
WOW, just incredible. The $ to performance equation is ridiculous.
Now that's 10/10ths driving!
A four-wheel drift at 115 mph. This is some of the gutsiest driving I’ve ever seen.
Like Gymkhana 5 this is one of those videos I just keep going back to.
Although unlike G5 there is no editing here, it’s all happening real time.
And I think the reason I continue to return is because in so many ways this video / run is a modern day Ford vs. Ferrari moment.
This car wasn’t designed for this track. Camaro’s aren’t track cars. American iron came of age running flat out in a straight line. Big, heavy cars that relied on brute force to move them quickly.
Porsche, Ferrari, those were track cars, cornering, braking, weight distribution.
Akin to ballerinas, they were nimble. And by comparison to American iron, our products were like draft animals pulling a plow.
And you see that still, even here, the driver is an absolute beast, whipping the Camaro for everything it’s worth. And holding on for dear life as he does.
The car is not precise, he’s fighting it, flying on the razor’s edge of being out of control in every turn. Like trying to fly but with a rocket strapped to your back.
And doing so with sheer mastery.
Reminds me of Damon’s line:
“It isn't about speed, Lee. It's not just like those other tracks where all you do is turn to the left for four hours.”
And so it is here, an American muscle car running on a German track first laid down in the 1920’s.
Ford vs Ferrari was about two men, while here we see the battle of machine vs. track.
Showing that anything the world can do, American’s can do better, and at a quarter the cost. Brings to mind the P-51 Mustang. Out the gate our planes weren’t the fastest, but over time . . .
And so it is here, so much of the American experience is illustrated. At the beginning of WW2 the German’s and the Japanese had faster planes. The Russian’s beat us into space, but the day you beat an American at something that he or she thinks is important, is the day you better start to watch your back.
An American muscle car with a drag racing lineage on a German track fondly known as “The Green Hell.”
And it is not poetry, this run wasn’t pretty. The car doesn’t glide silently around the track while a European V-12 whines from the back.
The Camaro snarls and slides as it fights its way through the corners. And roars down the straights.
Everything about this run is uniquely American, our way of forcing a square peg into a round hole. Ingenuity, hard work, and a little luck. It shouldn’t work, but we make sure that somehow it will.
I’ve lived around Camaro’s my entire life. The flared wheel-wells of the late 60’s owned by a high school kid, bondo and primer, riding on wide tires, chrome Craiger’s, and a set of headers.
The 70’s low slung, heavy and underpowered gas crisis cars driven by waitress’ who wanted something “sporty” but comfortable.
The early 80’s cars, with anemic
small block V-8’s that were slower than turbocharged V-6 Buick’s.
The 90’s where the name began to reclaim some pride, re-styled and named “IROC.”
Into the present day tactical fighters we see here.
Al Oppenheiser says he’d like to see a Camaro run a sub 7 min time on Der Ring. But when asked how he didn’t have details.
Which is perfect for America, we may not be able to tell you in the moment how we’re going to do something. Only that we have no doubt that if it’s possible we’ll find a way.
A lot of people would tell you American’s are assholes, and having traveled abroad and seen “us” I can’t say they’re wrong.
But no one can deny us, and in this $85k eater of Maranello’s and Zuffenhausen’s the proof, as they used to say back on the farm, is in the puddin. Watch this and be proud my fellow philistines, it’s American ingenuity and know, kickin ass. It’s what won the big war, and here shows the world we could do it again, if we had to.
Did anybody noticed that at 7:06 he UPSHIFTED to the top gear at 167 MPH going slightly uphill , takes a lot of TORQUE to do that AMAZING !
And into a turn. That was amazing
chevy gearboxes do stuff like that. theres videos of corvettes leaving from a dead stop in 6th gear.
things have loads of torque i have a LT1 Camaro it produces 455HP with 454 ft pounds of torque and the thing featured in this video is even more powerful
@@cerberus1166 dude the torque is insane too, I just got my ZLE and the thing wants to be in 5th gear by like 35mph XD
@@ryanwise9854 i bet, but i dont think even a hellcat can start in 6th and theyre torque monsters too, maybe it can i havent checked.
Some of those snap-steer corrections were impressive.
This driver put in some work, his late breaking made me pucker a couple times..
Man this guy can drive. Car sounds awesome hard on the throttle.
He had a couple of very good oversteer corrections on corner exits. Caught them perfectly and efficiently got back on power right as the chassis settled. Excellent work.
What a driver!!
Especially on those SHIT Tyres.
@@taaltaal4739 tires””
@@taaltaal4739 Joking? Those are Eagle F1 Supercar 3. Not shit.
I never would have thought half of those turns were possible in any car ever made. Wow.
I really wish they interviewed the driver after the lap I genuinely wanted to know his impression on how the Camaro handled and if it’s comparable to it’s European competitors
Legend has it, he’s still cleaning himself🤪🤣😂
I picture him getting out, slaming the door, removing his helmet and saying "that car is f***ing incredible!"while pointing at it.
The driver is Bill Wise, one of the engineers who helped work on the Camaro. He probably knows the car like the back of his hand, considering he helped design the suspension.
Driver was GM's test driver/ chassis engineer/ race driver/ team owner Jim Mero. There is an interview out there but it's a moot point since he's the ZL1 dynamic chass engineer who happens to be a pro-racer as well. 2014 - 2019 team Z06/ ZR1 also had another just like him named Bill Wise for their chassis tuning.
@@maximumvelocity6542it was Bill Wise, not Jim Mero.
“According to Chevrolet, the lap was done on production-spec Goodyear Eagle F1 Supercar 3R tires, and driven by Camaro ride and handling engineer Bill Wise.” Car and Driver
We have a 2019 and every day with this baby is MUSCLE CAR HEAVEN back to visit since my 1977 6.6L Pontiac Trans Am.
I need to watch this every day before I hit I 75 on way to work.
This is one of the most terrifyingly, adrenaline pumping runs I have ever seen! Talk about pushing a car to its limits!
Check out the 2014 Z/28 run. That one is just as crazy and the driver almost loses it when it starts raining.
One of the more impressive 'Ring laps I've seen. A more analog car than many. Great driver and buy whoever put that gearbox together a beer :)
Tremec 6060, same gearbox as the Mustang GT500 and the Dodge Viper. Chevy even puts em standard in the $34k LT1 Camaros, while Ford is too cheap to even put it in the $60k GT350.
@@upcastdrake8460 is the 6060 better than the t56?
@@Nick-vy2msoh yes by far
@@Nick-vy2msTR-6060 is the modern evolution of the T-56 w. higher torque holding capacity and multiple cone synchro-mesh systems on gears where the T-56 either had one or two. Gearsets and teeth are also uprated with wider beefier ones.
@@maximumvelocity6542dude, there were no synchroless T56's... they had at least one. Its not an Eaton Fuller for Christs sake
The sheer skill needed to tame that beast at those speeds is unreal. What a beautiful machine and what a phenomenal driver.
That was extremely impressive driving, considering this is a manual transmission and not paddle shift!!
Paddle shifters are for people who cannot drive!
@@ldnwholesale8552 like f1, indycar and le man drivers?
@@olerothemberg3869yes like lance stroll lol, cant drive james bond or a f1 aston martin😂
@Trey Adams You just can’t shift at all 😂
@Trey Adams Who cares? If all you want is peak performance buy an electric car, they’ll beat anything and won’t shift at all doing so…. There’s more to driving than being faster.
No doubt that the 1LE is a great car, but it’s only as good as they driver behind the wheel. Hats off to the driver, it was amazing riding with you, thank you for the ride! Amazing driving
Any car is as good as the driver .
Awesome time for the $, beats a lot of cars for plenty more!! And this is a Camaro...Awesome and great driving!!
One thing I know about Germany, is they always speak highly about the camaro. They invite the Camaro to all the tracks, they never say anything bad about it. And they always say it’s a top 50 car. And when you look at the data and results the Camaro is the 47th best car on the Nurburgring track. Keep in mind some of the cars are heavy modified in that top 50 list. So the Camaro is even faster than that 47th spot. That is a testament to the Camaro and how highly it is looked at amongst its peers. Truly amazing.
Got a 2021 manual with a stupid payment and I love it only down side is that all my neighbors hate me.
Put it Tour Mode when you get into your neighborhood. That will help when you come home, but on a cold start..... well, you KNOW what I'm talking about. It just lets the whole world know it's awake and angry.
American Muscle: when you absolutely, positively have got to smoke every MF’er on the highway, accept NO substitute. 😂
Thrilling. No roll gage. Obviously not that guy’s first rodeo at the ring🤗
It was actually. He did run several practice laps leading up to this to get familiar with the track. He is also the chassis engineer for Chevrolet. Crazy huh.
that sound...THAT SOUND!
Driver is great
Man, it's been a while since I watched a video where the driver was fighting the car that much! OUTSTANDING JOB!!!!
That 2nd gear is nasty. Looks setup really well. And honestly look like some smooth power. Chevy did lots of homework on that power plant and drivetrain. Love my Chevrolets!!!
Props to the driver! Made that look easy knowing there was a lot of driver work taming that animal!
Balls of steel coming out of that long straight into those final turns! 170 around that first curve 👀
I love to see a Camaro doing this. Also this guy is a really good driver! His shifts and corrections are so smooth.
I’ve never been so puckered up on my couch! That was as wonderful as it was stressful. I’m shopping for a new ZL1 currently after owning a 2019 2SS and then a ‘17 Grand Sport. I can’t wait to take the keys once I find mine! Great video!
Impressive! Respect to the team!
Great time a day! Have owned my 67 SS350 for 47 years, muncie 4 speed with 4.10 posi and red lines at 5500! Would love to have a ZL1 to drive for a day! Even my 68 Cougar factory original 428 Cobra Jet C6 with 3.51 posi , and my 87 Grand National with TA66 turbo and ADS super chip with 3.73 gears and 2 1/2 inch flowmasters blush in the presence of such performance! Camaro is still my favorite!
I had a 67 BBC camaro I ran the qtr on Friday night (9.9@136) and then changed to my track tire setup and shock settings and ran the road course on Saturday usually finishing in the top 3 back in the early 200's.
My current 850hp 17/ZL1 is faster, just as quick, way more comfortable and will track day like a champ!
AS A SENIOR IN HIGH SCHOOL A FRIEND HAD A '69 Z28 302 4 SP. I LOVED THAT CAR. I HAD A '66 STANG 289 .
Absolutely incredible! This car is a BEAST!
Cor..this is amazing. Remember this is not *technically* a sports car. It's a 'Cruisier-Bruiser' instead - That other title belongs to the 'Vette. Congratulations...
excellent driving
That dude can drive.
Just a guess, but I think that driver may have been around that track once before. That was badass and very fun to watch and listen to.
AMAZING
That car is badass and so is that driver! He was wrestling that car all the way! So sick!!!
Great run thanks for the ride
That’s crazy impressive
This is just beautiful to watch listen and learn, Perfect
Fantastic show of how impressive the ZL1 1LE is for a stock track weapon of a car.
That Active Rev-Match was coming in clutch for some of those shifts and I'm sure the driver was loving that feature if he, in fact, used it.
Sheesh.
Amazing what a capable car and driver can do. The 1LE is no joke.
Wish I could drive like that.
Sone serious driving in this 1LE. Impressive.
It’s great the car is a stick vs an auto box. Typically, the slush box is faster by having 10 gears vs only 6. And yes, this is the point to point performance car bargain as of today. I’m willing to bet that if a “normal “ person were in the passenger seat, they would need at least 1 Depends if not 3 pairs. This driver is rocking and rolling through the curves, awesome video, thanks to everyone involved.
fking love those LT1 camaros especially the manuals such a beast
just amazing. That's how I drive my Camaro. Only difference is I'm just late for work. lol That dude bordered on the brink of control that entire time. And the way in which he shifted that machine was mind boggling. I wish to one day have an opportunity to drive on that track.
Surprised he can even sit down properly in that seat with those giant balls of steel.
Bill Wise is the driver for anyone asking
Just AMAZING, the driver took the car and tyres to the limit
278.4 klms an hour on that bit of straight road is amazing for stock standed.
EXCELENTE VÍDEO
Very Impressive .
This car is a beast to drive. Amazing driver
Wow, that was awesome, he test drove the hell out of that Camaro ❤
Perfect
I saw this car in person this week at the Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. It's a pretty cool place. They have quite a few race cars from different eras all the way back to the early 20th century.
What a fun ride!
dam it boy! he's a wheel man.. and that lead sled is not to bad either.
Man! That guy can drive. Very impressive. Between using the paddle shifters to using the manual shift. Damn.
Amazing for a front engine drive, manual gear box…. Super sweet 👍🏼🇺🇸
Stunning!!!
watching this car take on the ring at 10/10ths is terrifying.
well done
The perfect job. What a life literally getting paid to handle these beasts around a track this is my dream right here
@Bill Wise - You sir are an amazing driver! Well done! :)
Driver is a legend 🙌 car is awesome great 📹
wow chevy power 🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I've got the '17 ZL1 10sp, the LT4 s a motor that responds to even just bolton upgrades and it's by far the most bang for the buck beast on the road. I truly enjoy this thing beyond words.
A four-wheel drift at 115 mph. Gutsiest run I’ve ever seen.
Like Gymkhana 5 this is one of those videos I just keep going back to.
Although unlike G5 there is no editing here, it’s all happening real time.
And I think the reason I continue to return is because in so many ways this video / run is a modern day Ford vs. Ferrari moment.
This car wasn’t designed for this track. Camaro’s aren’t track cars. American iron came of age running flat out in a straight line. Big, heavy cars that relied on brute force to move them quickly.
Porsche, Ferrari, those were track cars, cornering, braking, weight distribution.
Akin to ballerinas, they were nimble. And by comparison to American iron, our products were like draft animals pulling a plow.
And you see that still, even here, the driver is an absolute beast, whipping the Camaro for everything it’s worth. And holding on for dear life as he does.
The car is not precise, he’s fighting it, flying on the razor’s edge of being out of control in every turn. Like trying to fly but with a rocket strapped to your back.
And doing so with sheer mastery.
Reminds me of Damon’s line:
“It isn't about speed, Lee. It's not just like those other tracks where all you do is turn to the left for four hours.”
And so it is here, an American muscle car running on a German track first laid down in the 1920’s.
Ford vs Ferrari was about two men, while here we see the battle of machine vs. track.
Showing that anything the world can do, American’s can do better, and at a quarter the cost. Brings to mind the P-51 Mustang. Out the gate our planes weren’t the fastest, but over time . . .
And so it is here, so much of the American experience is illustrated. At the beginning of WW2 the German’s and the Japanese had faster planes. The Russian’s beat us into space, but the day you beat an American at something that he or she thinks is important, is the day you better start to watch your back.
An American muscle car with a drag racing lineage on a German track fondly known as “The Green Hell.”
And it is not poetry, this run wasn’t pretty. The car doesn’t glide silently around the track while a European V-12 whines from the back.
The Camaro snarls and slides as it fights its way through the corners. And roars down the straights.
Everything about this run is uniquely American, our way of forcing a square peg into a round hole. Ingenuity, hard work, and a little luck. It shouldn’t work, but we make sure that somehow it will.
I’ve lived around Camaro’s my entire life. The flared wheel-wells of the late 60’s owned by a high school kid, bondo and primer, riding on wide tires, chrome Craiger’s, and a set of headers.
The 70’s low slung, heavy and underpowered gas crisis cars driven by waitress’ who wanted something “sporty” but comfortable.
The early 80’s cars, with anemic
small block V-8’s that were slower than turbocharged V-6 Buick’s.
The 90’s where the name began to reclaim some pride, re-styled and named “IROC.”
Into the present day tactical fighters we see here.
Al Oppenheiser says he’d like to see a Camaro run a sub 7 min time on Der Ring. But when asked how he didn’t have details.
Which is perfect for America, we may not be able to tell you in the moment how we’re going to do something. Only that we have no doubt that if it’s possible we’ll find a way.
A lot of people would tell you American’s are assholes, and having traveled abroad and seen “us” I can’t say they’re wrong.
But no one can deny us, and in this $85k eater of Maranello’s and Zuffenhausen’s the proof, as they used to say back on the farm, is in the puddin. Watch this and be proud my fellow philistines, it’s American ingenuity and know, kickin ass. It’s what won the big war, and here shows the world we could do it again, if we had to.
I have a 2018 ZL1. Now if only I could drive like this guy! Amazing talent!
you gotta get the 1LE package. clearly all that aero was doing the work for him.
but for real that guy is crisp with his skills
@@cerberus1166 I, too, have a 2018 ZL1. Had it on the track only once to see what it could do. Mine is a convertible, so I was limited, but still fun.
Jeez what a freakin lap yo
Great run! I need a ZL1 in my life....
You and me both!
a lot of trust going on here, with very little margin for error. excellent pilot!
and with a clutch..... love it!
Music to my eyes.
Dream car
nice driver dude
That was impressive. I like the way the information was laid out on the screen.
Of course I could have done it 30 seconds faster....... ; )
This is Hard enough on a Video Game lol This Dude is a Straight Hoss to Push That Kind of Pace Especially with No Cage or Fire System WoW!
Guys a beast 👌
Holy shit. Props to the driver. That was definitely a “full send”!
Right now after that power house drive I’m stunned . Quicker , much quicker than any other car I can remember. . . .? You can see the weight issues with this car but the power was huge . Look I’m saying too much but it’s on the back of something special . I want to know more about car and driver right now 👍🤔👍🤨👍👍🤔🤫great one
Awesome driver and that's what I call getting everything you can out of that car
La magia de los motores V8 atmosféricos ❤ Todo esto se perderá para siempre con el coche eléctrico
Those shifts were crispier than my morning bacon 🥓🔥
That speed bump/wiggle at end of straight at 160mph...had me gripping the wheel ...yikes. best front engine American car ever
The driver was one of the engineers. Manual transmission too! Chevy kicking ass as always.!
Freaking awesome....
WOW, in the hands of a true professional and American made Camaro WOW ZL1LE..
Great！