The C8 Corvette ZR1’s unimaginable 1,064 horsepower brings with it a variety of superlatives. Add this sudden one to the listing: Extra highly effective than the race automobiles it will 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 increase setting, give or take a couple of horsepower. In keeping with the Indianapolis Star, the hybrid system that debuted within the collection partway via the 2024 season and making its 500 debut this 12 months, provides round 60 horsepower. So determine someplace close to or under the 800-hp mark.
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This is perhaps 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 shouldn’t be sooner than an Indy 500 machine. The brand new ZR1 can high out at 233 mph, however in qualifying, the quickest automobiles operating the five hundred ought to common that type of pace round 4 laps of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. That is the advantage of a lot decrease weight, slick tires, and downforce. Nonetheless, it is a humorous reflection on the state of recent efficiency automobiles, and the monster output of the ZR1 that the one with a VIN has extra energy.
Chevrolet has offered Indy 500 tempo automobiles completely since 2002, and so they’ve been Corvettes since 2017. Former soccer professional and Good Morning America host Michael Strahan is the superstar visitor pace-car driver this 12 months—a robust selection, provided that he is an enormous automobile fanatic with a pleasant assortment. The tempo automobile wears an aesthetic livery of inexperienced and gold over white, and naturally, it will get the ZR1’s Carbon Aero package deal, for max 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 ready for Sunday Might twenty fifth with the published beginning at Midday on Fox.
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