The C8 Corvette ZR1’s unbelievable 1,064 horsepower brings with it quite a few superlatives. Add this sudden one to the listing: Extra highly effective than the race vehicles 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 enhance setting, give or take a number of horsepower. In line with the Indianapolis Star, the hybrid system that debuted within the sequence partway by means of the 2024 season and making its 500 debut this 12 months, provides round 60 horsepower. So determine someplace close to or beneath the 800-hp mark.

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This could be the primary time ever the Indy 500 tempo automotive has extra energy than vehicles it is pacing. And never a little bit extra horsepower, over 250 extra horsepower. 

Clearly, the Corvette isn’t quicker than an Indy 500 machine. The brand new ZR1 can high out at 233 mph, however in qualifying, the quickest vehicles working 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 vehicles, and the monster output of the ZR1 that the one with a VIN has extra energy. 

Chevrolet has offered Indy 500 tempo vehicles completely since 2002, and so they’ve been Corvettes since 2017. Former soccer professional and Good Morning America host Michael Strahan is the celeb visitor pace-car driver this 12 months—a robust selection, on condition that he is an enormous automotive fanatic with a pleasant assortment. The tempo automotive wears an aesthetic livery of inexperienced and gold over white, and naturally, it will get the ZR1’s Carbon Aero bundle, for max downforce. 

If you wish to see the tempo automotive in motion—in addition to what is bound to be a top-notch race—the Indy 500 is about for Sunday Might twenty fifth with the published beginning at Midday on Fox.

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