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title: "Watch a Stock Chevy Corvette ZR1 Do 214 MPH on Florida’s Space Shuttle Strip"
description: "755 supercharged horses on 2.7 miles of very flat tarmac."
date: "2020-08-14"
modified: "2020-08-14"
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  - name: "Máté Petrány"
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  - "Corvette ZR1"
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# Watch a Stock Chevy Corvette ZR1 Do 214 MPH on Florida’s Space Shuttle Strip

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/images-by-url-td/content/2020/08/ZR1-Speed.jpg>)
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When launched in Dubai in 2017, Team Corvette said the ZR1 will do north of 210 miles per hour thanks to what they simply call [the "big-ass supercharger."](<https://www.autoweek.com/news/sports-cars/a1836311/deep-dive-lt5/>) One still needs to choose the smaller wing with the low downforce package to get there, yet either spec you choose with your LT5 V8, the 755-horsepower Corvette will deliver. With the optional eight-speed automatic, the ZR1 has proven to do zero to 60 mph in 2.85-seconds, [192 mph in a standing mile](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5UJEWlEgbc>) and equipped with the TK performance package, even a 2:37.25 lap around Virginia International Raceway's Grand Course West layout. With that run, Chevy broke the Ford GT's lap record there by 1.37 seconds.

Chevy officially quotes 212 mph as a top speed, yet on a dry day over 2.7 miles at one of the world's flattest stretches of concrete, the ZR1 with an automatic can climb even higher.

![message-editor%2F1597398365249-2019-chevrolet-corvette-zr1-006.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1597398365249-2019-chevrolet-corvette-zr1-006.jpg>)
*Chevrolet*

![message-editor%2F1597398417509-2019-chevrolet-corvette-zr1-010.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1597398417509-2019-chevrolet-corvette-zr1-010.jpg>)
*Chevrolet*

![message-editor%2F1597400651433-2019-chevrolet-corvette-zr1-007.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1597400651433-2019-chevrolet-corvette-zr1-007.jpg>)
*The small wing., *Chevrolet**

The Johnny Bohmer Proving Grounds at Space Florida's Shuttle Landing Facility features a runway that's three miles long and 100 yards wide, having also been designed by NASA to have only a quarter-inch height difference from end to end. What's more, there's a 24/7 fire rescue station at the south end of the runway, which is designed to handle much larger accidents than what a fast car could get into.

With consistently low crosswinds and two south-to-north runs completed in sub-80-degree temperatures, the 2019 Corvette ZR1 reached 214 mph without using the absolute length of the runway. Still, given how the JBPG team runs test over half-mile, one-mile, 1.5-mile, 2-mile, 2.3-mile, 2.5-mile and 2.7-mile distances, the fastest Corvette had 53 seconds to show what's it got. On top of its 13 heat-exchangers, that is.

https://youtube.com/embed/5MWwmk0kNqw

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## Author
As a fan of old cars, new cars, trains, planes, buses, and you-name-it, Máté can sometimes be seen driving an Autobianchi around Budapest, much to the amusement of the children, mostly. When not time-traveling, he continues to report from the future to his American colleagues, often talking about Lotus, Ozzy Osbourne, or both.

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