{"id":35792,"date":"2026-02-28T00:29:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T04:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=35792"},"modified":"2026-02-28T00:29:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T04:29:38","slug":"king-corvette-zr1-dethrones-mclaren-senna-at-vir-lightning-lap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/king-corvette-zr1-dethrones-mclaren-senna-at-vir-lightning-lap","title":{"rendered":"King Corvette: ZR1 dethrones McLaren Senna at VIR Lightning Lap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">U.S. feats of Olympian proportions are becoming a habit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The U.S. hockey team upset Canada in Italy, and now the 2026 Chevy Corvette ZR1 has dethroned one of Europe\u2019s premier supercars, the McLaren Senna, from Mt. Olympus with the fastest production car lap ever at legendary Virginia International Raceway. The Senna, introduced in 2019, held the record for seven years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">With 1,064 horsepower and tenacious downforce, the $216,380 ZR1\u00a0<a class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/business\/autos\/general-motors\/2025\/02\/11\/king-corvette-1064-horsepower-zr1-crushes-north-american-track-lap-records\/78410214007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\">has cemented itself<\/a>\u00a0as one of the world\u2019s premier supercars for a fraction of the price. The limited-production (only 500 were made) 789-horsepower Senna, for example, trades north of $1 million. Dubbed \u201cAmerica\u2019s Nu\u0308rburgring\u201d for its challenging, undulating, 28-turn, 4.1-mile configuration, VIR\u2019s Grand Course is the annual site for Car and Driver\u2019s Lightning Lap \u2014 the U.S. benchmark for vehicle performance tests.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/02\/26\/PDTN\/88884564007-corvette-zr-1-lap-records-road-america.jpg?width=660&amp;height=441&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"The 2025 Chevy Corvette ZR1 at Road America.\" width=\"531\" height=\"355\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"gnt_pg_img_cap\"><em>The 2025 Chevy Corvette ZR1 at Road America.<\/em><\/div>\n<p><em>Chevrolet, Chevrolet<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read full article here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. feats of Olympian proportions are becoming a habit. The U.S. hockey team upset Canada in Italy, and now the 2026 Chevy Corvette ZR1 has dethroned one of Europe\u2019s premier supercars, the McLaren Senna, from Mt. Olympus with the fastest production car lap ever at legendary Virginia International Raceway. The Senna, introduced in 2019, held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35793,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35792\/revisions\/35793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}