Just back from Ron Fellows for the C8 Stingray COS. They have 12 Z06's: 11 parked separately together, plus one other (Torch Red labelled car number one, with all the carbon fiber goodies) parked on the putting green outside the Clubhouse restaurant. Our instructors said they're planning to put on one Z06 COS likely starting this summer, with a reduced enrolment (less than 10 students). Many were asking they start up the Torch Red Z06 to hear the exhaust note, however the lead instructor Rick Malone was away on day 2 and no one could seem to find the keys (?). But one of the 11 Z06's went into the shop on the second day during our lunch hour and the techs were happy to start and rev it up for an appreciative audience.
Of interest, the likely plan for the Z06 COS, is to have a Stingray as the lead car on the track.
We were told instructors are allowed to drive the Z06's and Stingrays home, to get the minimum 1,500 miles on them before they're track-ready, although I didn't see anyone driving any Z06's after-hours while I was there. Apparently one of the perks of their job.
They've opened up a new course which now makes them the second longest track facility in the world (second only to the Nürburgring in Germany), however they've got plans to expand even further and become the number one facility in the world length-wise. Of interest, the new course (called Charleston Peak) is more difficult/technical and one instructor commented that the members (those who belong to the Club and drive/race their own cars year-round) are surprisingly unhappy with Charleston Peak and prefer to drive the original north/south track in particular. For that reason, they've changed plans and started running schools on Charleston Peak even though it's a more challenging course.
As usual, NO ONE in our class ran off track or damaged a C8. I was happy not to pay the extra $200 to buy down my deductible (so I kept it at $8,000 instead of a $2,000 deductible), but that's a personal choice everyone going will have to make. One instructor commented that about a month earlier, someone on the north track ran off curve 3 and into the tire wall, causing $16,000 worth of damage. So it does happen.
Of interest, the likely plan for the Z06 COS, is to have a Stingray as the lead car on the track.
We were told instructors are allowed to drive the Z06's and Stingrays home, to get the minimum 1,500 miles on them before they're track-ready, although I didn't see anyone driving any Z06's after-hours while I was there. Apparently one of the perks of their job.
They've opened up a new course which now makes them the second longest track facility in the world (second only to the Nürburgring in Germany), however they've got plans to expand even further and become the number one facility in the world length-wise. Of interest, the new course (called Charleston Peak) is more difficult/technical and one instructor commented that the members (those who belong to the Club and drive/race their own cars year-round) are surprisingly unhappy with Charleston Peak and prefer to drive the original north/south track in particular. For that reason, they've changed plans and started running schools on Charleston Peak even though it's a more challenging course.
As usual, NO ONE in our class ran off track or damaged a C8. I was happy not to pay the extra $200 to buy down my deductible (so I kept it at $8,000 instead of a $2,000 deductible), but that's a personal choice everyone going will have to make. One instructor commented that about a month earlier, someone on the north track ran off curve 3 and into the tire wall, causing $16,000 worth of damage. So it does happen.
