ZR1 Pace Car crashes at IndyCar Detroit

[Nik]

Rare Indy Pace Car, one of a kind coming to a Kijiji ad near you.

GM Exec driving apparently.

 

[ddgermann]

OMG!! Proud moment for GM.
....Not....

 

[Black 03 Z06]

Ouch. Both embarrassing and expensive. Find it on Auto Trader in a month with a premium attached.

 

[Nik]

Ouch. Both embarrassing and expensive. Find it on Auto Trader in a month with a premium attached.

Well it is an official pace car

 

[nascar03]

Oh my!

Graham

 

[williame3590]

Well isn't that special.


Bill

 

[Rruuff Day]

Well that explains it... The driver is a Mechanical engineer.... Damn. GM should have let a Civil do the driving...

Mark Reuss
Executive Vice President, Global Product Development, Purchasing and Supply Chain General Motors Company
Mark L. Reuss leads the design, engineering, safety, quality, research and development, advanced vehicle technology and program management of General Motors cars, trucks and crossovers around the world. Reuss is a mechanical engineer who began his GM career as a student intern in 1983. He has held numerous engineering and management positions, including chief engineer of GM’s large luxury vehicles and manufacturing body shop tooling launches.

 

[Black 03 Z06]

Any chance Mark Reuss will ever ever live this one down?

I wondered aloud if he went to the Danica Hi Performance Driving school but that would be well, tacky.

 

[nascar03]

Dear Mary....
Thank you for letting me borrow the car on the weekend,
I had a bit of trouble yesterday.
Here are the keys.
I guess I’m grounded and I’ll never ask for the car again.
You can take it out of my allowance.

Your employee
Mark.

 

[YFCvii]

I'm taking the avenue of ...
"if I can't say anything nice ..."
and therefore saving myself from
a whole bunch of "CCF demerits"

 

[LE BARON]

Didn't quite make the turn

 

[Rruuff Day]

Didn't quite make the turn

You got trumped by 4 1/2 hours Baron... Nik beat you to it....lol...

ZR1 Pace Car crashes at IndyCar Detroit

 

[YFCvii]

Been trusted to test drive both Showroom Corvettes before owning them
and one other Factory Corvette that was known I wouldn't be owning up front ....
Headline tomorrow will be ...
"Top Executives at GM have determined that there will be
no more test-driving of Corvettes by their valued Customers"
... and now we know why ...

COS lesson here ... it's a pace lap ... Do you know why they have them
and why corners need respecting??? Every one of us should know why
we make our first corners the way we do ..... or risk this result.
I might phone a good friend in Pahrump and ask if he has a new video
to use for the COS

 

[Rruuff Day]

Or at least no test driving by their valued executives.

 

[LE BARON]

You got trumped by 4 1/2 hours Baron... Nik beat you to it....lol...

ZR1 Pace Car crashes at IndyCar Detroit

Yeah I saw that after I posted the video.
Seeing it was a ZR1 I checked out that file first and as it was not there I posted it.
Feel sorry for Mark Reuss scraping it up a bit. He is a certified race driver. Guess he did not have enough seat time getting acquainted with the ZR1's engine and power.
What the hell are ordinary drivers going to do. Will be interesting to see if many get scraped this year. A sad thought.

" Reuss is far from an inexperienced pace car driver. In fact, he has driven the pace car on the streets of Belle Isle on multiple occasions. According to an IndyCar official, he has been trained and attained certification to drive high-performance cars such as the Corvette ZR1.
Sunday's race runner-up and Verizon IndyCar Series championship leader Will Power said the turn that fooled Reuss is particularly tricky, and that an accident like that could have happened to almost anyone.
"I felt really bad for whoever was in the pace car," Power said after finishing second to Ryan Hunter-Reay. "It's very easy to do as you go over that crest, and the traction control must have been turned off. So yeah, I felt — it wasn't really his fault. It's just such a bad corner. Like it's very easy to do."

 

[Black 03 Z06]

New ZR 1 sitting in Will Power's driveway this morning with a bouquet of roses and a thank you note from Mark.

 

[YFCvii]

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​

 

[Pep]

Should have left the nannies turned on Mark

Well that explains it... The driver is a Mechanical engineer.... Damn. GM should have let a Civil do the driving...

I don't think I have ever met a "civil" engineer.

 

[Pep]

Any chance Mark Reuss will ever ever live this one down. I wondered aloud if he went to the Danica Hi Performance Driving school but that would be well, tacky.

 

[Rruuff Day]

I don't think I have ever met a "civil" engineer.

Probably a reason for that .....