Chevrolet Engineers Put Camaro ZL1 Through 24-Hours Of Racetrack Hell

When GM North American President Mark Reuss stopped by our offices with the Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, he told us that while the ZL1 was almost production ready, there was still some last minute testing to be done, including putting over a quarter-million miles on the ZL1 before it’s ready for primetime. Chevy recently spent some time, 24 hours to be exact, racking up the miles by running the Camaro ZL1 continuously on the Milford Road Course for final tweaks and calibrations.

As one Chevy engineer so helpfully puts it, “There’s nothing more destructive on a car than [24 hours on a racetrack].” He’s right; often times purpose built endurance racecars can’t endure the rigors and challenges of pushing a car at 110 percent for 24 hours. How’s a pre-production street car supposed to withstand that without breaking?

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