Obviously the car was running on all cylinders. Running 140K in a fifty though might lead some to question the wisdom of that. To much s**t can happen too fast to control, like a kid running out in front of you.
Please allow me to comment because I was not being irresponsible here!
Firstly this was on the outskirts of town in a commercial area and actually the area that I let it go has only fields adjacent on both sides of the road on that short distance where I punched it. There are no residences even in close proximity to this area with the closest almost 3/4 mile away. In fact on that stretch there are no commercial business's, therefore no worry of merging traffic from business' properties either! As well the road is very wide, only two opposing lanes (
however could easily be painted for three maybe even four lanes) and most importantly this was to be a quick shot of acceleration with immediate breaking.
I would never consistently drive over the speed limit ever, as I'm the guy constantly only driving the speed limit or 5 km/hour over that many complain about. I'd die if I got a speeding ticket (
ha ha). Please also realize this was my very first time of having the opportunity to experience the car with RPM's over 4000 as prior to this my car was in the break in period with limitations to hard acceleration and high RPM's.
With my 1998 Cobra you could let it go and quickly shut it back down to the posted speed without having to worry about being in "stunt driving" territory (
50 km/h over the posted speed). That's not the case with a new Z06! For those of you with any new model Corvette, you can attest to the fact that it accelerates with super car or near super car performance.
In Ontario "stunt driving" includes 50 km/h over the posted speed, something that the Corvette achieves in 3-4 seconds........People don't by cars with super car performance to not occasionally let them rip!
I would like to reiterate this was a commercial area, it was after 5:00pm in the evening, there was light traffic with no traffic in front of me and no oncoming traffic for that mater and no pedestrian or bicycle traffic. This was gonna be a quick shot with immediate breaking to the posted speed, not continuous high speed travel as that being inferred!
The police to my fortune didn't have me on radar, and as previously stated there also was no other evidence such as squeeling tires (
unnecessary noise), tire marks or smoking tires for the officer to comment on or to support a charge. As well if this was a populated area whereby I was placing individuals or children at risk that officer wouldn't have been as cordial with me. In fact he said if it was his car he would have come out here and "tried it out as well!"