ZO6. Drag or Not?

[HUMVET51]

I had a conversation with a fellow C5 Z owner over the weekend and hes pretty adament about not racing his car. His reasons seem to be straightforward. 1. Tired of fixing things that break, 2. not wanting to have any accidents on the track, street, etc. 3. and feeling that he has nothing to prove to anybody. Im curious to know the opinions of racing your Z. Pro and Con?

 

[warren s]

You need to define "race".

IMHO there is nothing wrong with taking a few passes down the old 1320 and getting some time slips.

Doing it frequently with slicks or drag radials, and prowling the streets looking for stop light drag races is another thing.

 

[YumaZ06]

IMHO there is nothing wrong with taking a few passes down the old 1320 and getting some time slips.

Doing it frequently with slicks or drag radials, and prowling the streets looking for stop light drag races is another thing.

I agree. An occasional blast down the drag strip or an HPDE is ok.

If you want to seriously play, then you will pay. Serious racers go for hardened output shafts, transmission main shafts, clutches etc. All part of racing. If you do it on a consistent basis you will break and wear things out (brakes in the case of HPDE's).

 

[HUMVET51]

Sorry guys. I guess I should have clarified that we were talking about the guys on the street who are constantly screeching from a standstill at every stoplight and stopsign . We did talk about dumping clutches down the dragstrip every blue moon.

 

[Edmond]

Nope, not into racing. I have nothing to prove and everything to lose. I don't think the commander would be very happy that one of his officers was picked up by the local PD for drag racing or even worse, scraped off the road after drag racing.

For most guys out there, they have nothing to lose by racing us. If they beat us, they brag. If they lose, they lost to a faster car, so what?