{"id":36571,"date":"2026-08-23T08:33:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T12:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=36571"},"modified":"2026-08-23T08:33:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T12:33:35","slug":"a-lap-of-the-freedom-250-gp-in-a-corvette-z06","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/a-lap-of-the-freedom-250-gp-in-a-corvette-z06","title":{"rendered":"A lap of the Freedom 250 GP in a Corvette Z06"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"WASHINGTON,<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON, DC – Detroit News columnist took a hot lap around the Freedom 250 course in a Chevy Corvette Z06.<\/em><\/div>\n

Henry Payne, The Detroit News<\/em><\/p>\n

WASHINGTON, D.C.<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 With the 670-horsepower, 5.5-liter V-8 engine screaming behind my ear at a stratospheric 8,400 RPM, the Chevrolet Corvette Z06 hit 135 mph on west-bound Pennsylvania Avenue before hot shoe and General Motors\u2019 Vice President for Product Programs and Motorsport Ken Morris buried the brakes into Turn 2 and pulled the eyeballs out of my head.<\/p>\n

And no cops pulled us over.<\/p>\n

The nation\u2019s capital has hosted military flyovers, parades, and riots over its 226-year history but it has never seen anything like the NTT IndyCar Freedom 250 Grand Prix that will race around the National Mall Saturday and Sunday, August 22-23.<\/p>\n

I got a taste on my Friday afternoon hot lap of what it\u2019s like to go (legally) 110 mph over the 25 mph speed limit down Washington\u2019s six-lane main street that connects the White House and the Capitol Building. This weekend, IndyCar\u2019s will top that by another 50 mph \u2013 hitting 185 before diving into Turn 2, the best passing opportunity on the track.<\/p>\n

Read full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON, DC – Detroit News columnist took a hot lap around the Freedom 250 course in a Chevy Corvette Z06. Henry Payne, The Detroit News WASHINGTON, D.C.\u00a0\u2013 With the 670-horsepower, 5.5-liter V-8 engine screaming behind my ear at a stratospheric 8,400 RPM, the Chevrolet Corvette Z06 hit 135 mph on west-bound Pennsylvania Avenue before hot […]<\/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\/36571"}],"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=36571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36572,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36571\/revisions\/36572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}