{"id":36458,"date":"2026-07-31T11:12:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T15:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=36458"},"modified":"2026-07-31T11:12:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T15:12:19","slug":"gm-puts-on-high-powered-drag-races-for-trump-at-milford-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/gm-puts-on-high-powered-drag-races-for-trump-at-milford-stop","title":{"rendered":"GM puts on high-powered drag races for Trump at Milford stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/07\/27\/PDTN\/91070994007-trump-milford-drag-races-flags.jpg?width=660&amp;height=372&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"After exiting The Beast, President Trump stands in front of Building 106 at the Milford Proving Grounds draped in U.S. and GM flags.\" width=\"534\" height=\"301\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"gnt_pg_img_cap\"><em>After exiting The Beast, President Trump stands in front of Building 106 at the Milford Proving Grounds draped in U.S. and GM flags.<\/em><\/div>\n<p><em>Henry Payne, The Detroit News<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">FOOM! An all-wheel-drive, 1,250-horsepower, hybrid V-8\/electric Chevrolet Corvette ZR1X, the most powerful American sportscar ever produced, exploded past the presidential viewing stand, defeating its mere supercar sibling, the rear-wheel-drive, 1,064-horsepower ZR1, by two car lengths in a drag race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cI hit about 115 (mph) at the viewing stand,\u201d said GM engineer and ZR1X driver Stefan Frick afterwards. \u201cThen backed out of it at about 120.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">If he had kept going past the 1\/8-mile makeshift dragway set up on Black Lake, the 67-acre asphalt skid pad at the north end of the Proving Ground\u2019s 4,400 acres, the ZR1X would have hit 233 mph.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cThat\u2019s the largest piece of asphalt I\u2019ve ever seen,\u201d said Trump, a car buff with his own large collection, at a rally afterwards. Black Lake has been an engineering test ground for countless performance vehicles.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gnt_x__c gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__bv gnt_x__bvnh\" aria-label=\"advertisement\">\n<div id=\"ad-slot-7103-mi-detroit-C1561-banner_videoplayer-money-autos-4-ac2\" class=\"gnt_x_sl gnt_x_bv up-show\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-method=\"llx\" data-x-c=\"2\" data-google-query-id=\"CMbUl9KZ_ZUDFeSopgQdmPoimw\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/business\/autos\/2026\/07\/27\/trump-drag-races-gm-milford-corvettes-hummers-blackwings\/91062610007\/\">Read full article here.<\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After exiting The Beast, President Trump stands in front of Building 106 at the Milford Proving Grounds draped in U.S. and GM flags. Henry Payne, The Detroit News FOOM! An all-wheel-drive, 1,250-horsepower, hybrid V-8\/electric Chevrolet Corvette ZR1X, the most powerful American sportscar ever produced, exploded past the presidential viewing stand, defeating its mere supercar sibling, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36458"}],"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=36458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36459,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36458\/revisions\/36459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}