0-200-0 Shootout Conclusion "Science Project" gets a second chance

We drove the Lingenfelter Corvette 185 miles from Ann Arbor to Oscoda to burn off the fuel the car arrived with to make sure it was running on pump gas. On that late-fall day, the 50-degree temperature was about 15 degrees cooler than on our initial test day four weeks earlier.

The first run was uneventful. Then, as the car sat in the pits immediately after and we were downloading the data, we heard a loud boing! The crew inspected the car and found a severely cracked right-front brake rotor. A used spare set of front rotors was installed, and the car made another run. Continued...