My Car: A Discussion of Performance and Competition

As I sit here thinking about my car, I have to admit that I'm not too thrilled about taking up a garage spot at Uncle Rich's house. He's a wealthy individual who isn't going to take no for an answer, and he recently "borrowed" my Corvette without so much as a by-your-leave. However, despite the initial inconvenience, I'm still working on finding a suitable storage solution for my beloved 1963 Corvette.

Uncle Rich's Event: A Great Time Was Had

I did attend one event recently that was great fun, and Uncle Rich did well too. Unfortunately, I didn't get to see his right-hand drive car in action, as he went out without even telling me, let alone getting it onto the track for a video shoot. Fortunately, someone else's camera caught him running, so you can check out his Instagram and YouTube channels to see his impressive speed.

A Close Contest: The Iconic GT500

I also participated in another event recently, where I found myself pitted against a GT500 from Iconic. Despite having slightly more power than my own car, the GT500's belt issue held it back from reaching its full potential. In contrast, my own car performed well, with about the same amount of power as before, but still managed to give the GT500 an edge in terms of overall performance.

Racing Strategies: The Importance of Wing Placement

Some people have been commenting on social media that I should consider removing the wing from my car to improve its aerodynamics. However, I'm not too keen on taking such drastic measures. I believe that the current setup is fine and doesn't detract from the overall appearance of the car. Moreover, what's the point of racing if it's all about modifying your car beyond recognition? As a driver, I'd rather focus on mastering my skills and adapting to different driving conditions.

The Power of Mid-Range Performance

I've been focusing on improving the mid-range performance of my car, which has proven to be very strong. In recent events, I was able to achieve impressive times in the 60-130mph range, with some even suggesting that I might have a chance at beating certain other cars in this category.

Lessons Learned from Recent Events

I've been racing various cars, including a Subaru, a Maggie 2650 blower-equipped car, and an RS3. While I was initially disappointed to only reach speeds of around 150mph on one occasion, I realized that it was largely due to my own mistake – holding the paddle in too long. The experience taught me to be more focused and mindful during these high-speed events.

Future Plans: Racing and Upcoming Events

I'm planning to continue racing throughout the season, with a focus on keeping my skills sharp and adapting to different cars and track conditions. I'd like to think that my car will remain competitive, but it's always possible that other drivers might have an edge over me. Who knows? Maybe I'll even host some joint events with Iconic in the future – we'll see.

The Legacy of the ZR1: Keeping a Benchmark Car Alive

My car has become somewhat legendary among racing enthusiasts, and people often use it as a benchmark for comparison. While it's true that there are other cars that can outperform my ZR1, I'd like to think that its reputation will endure – at least in certain circles. Perhaps, with some adjustments and fine-tuning, I'll be able to return the ZR1 to its former glory, much to the delight of its fans.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enalright guys before this upload begins there is only three days left only three days left to win my 2021 ram trx and right now if you enter on in chain designs.com every five bucks spent gets you 15 entries to win that truck and my thousand horsepower hellcat that's right we are launching the hellcat giveaway right now for the final four days of the trx giveaway you get entered for both automatically you don't have to do anything extra every five bucks spent gets you 15 entries for the truck and for the hellcat at the detail spray we have the wheel and soap cleaner we've got the camo backpacks with the flag on it we've got other backpacks we've got hats sweatshirts key tags all kinds of different key tags newest key tag pull to eject very cool very cool a good seller got the tan flag od green blue line gray red white and blue and the canadian flag and yes if you are a canadian you can enter the hellcat and trx giveaway everything on the website counts to win doesn't matter what you get you can get one of my shirts one of bobby's um a savage garage shirt doesn't matter anything you find on the website that you like gets you entered to win the t-rex and the hellcat grab some great merch and get entered to win both vehicles automatically you automatically get entered for both so if you don't win the trx you can win the hellcat so check out the website once again in shindesigns.com don't miss out only four days left to take advantage of this epic offer not even sure why you're at this event this is for fast cars oh this one's for fast cars i have to switch that around when you race me gone through the tunnel one of the coolest parts of this track for sure pocono welcomes nascar we are here at pocono raceway this is awesome and look who's behind us rich sky roll race in ladash yeah i hope so it is not dude like 1945 chevy i like it what if it's like he gets out there it's like a jet it's like watching an f-22 raptor fly down the track if you've never been to a slipstream event it's awesome i highly recommend it you should sign up do it it's a really cool venue like how often do you get to race on a nascar track not often right rich got the top down you get oh man is he racing with the top down top down rich that's it man let's go you're racing with no roof next race all right so you ready for the first race of the season this is going to be epic pocono raceway couldn't ask for a nicer day great venue and i can't wait no idea who i'm gonna race i know that iconic and i are racing again round three i know that's happening other than that i really have no plans so we'll get out we'll get out there and we'll see who looks fast and we'll try to have some fun i'm not even sure why you're at this event this is for fast cars oh this one's for fast cars yeah fast all right i'm going home then yeah like my car okay yeah i'm gonna go home you know cars to go at least 140. okay yeah i'll go home we're gonna do a little test run see how the car is see how it behaves downpipes in tune dme 720 very very fast car and we'll see how the zr1 does super nice guy we met i'd say three years ago here now and he's had the same car every year i've not had the same car for two years very fast very consistent car so should be a good run wow that is good he's got me on the top end to be expected i got the big wing he's got way better arrow to be expected but that's a good race man 150 160 the arrow of the 720s is hard to beat so there you can see as the speeds get higher my zr1 you know just doesn't have the arrow we got the big wing on the back you know so it's tough but that's a really good race just the top end of that can't do it i love it it's so sick thanks for thanks for racing though great runs against the 720s i know that his 60 to 130 is about equal to mine we're talking like low fours maybe high threes and uh you know low to mid four depending on a lot of factors but you're talking anywhere from three nine to like four or five basically we'll get back out there i wanna race stang mode and iconic can spj is it really cool please come and look at this thing i'll come look at it it's like i gotta give the run down and then i'll come look at it i need an svj that is on the agenda guys svj on the channel maybe later this year or maybe next year i don't know but it's gonna happen for sure iconic gt500 now freshly the world's fastest gt500 he just got in the eights and again this isn't like a stripped-out race car he daily drives it i've seen it before you guys have all seen it on the channel we have raced now two times every race we've done has been very very close so it should be good again i'm making a little bit more he's making more i am running the bell right now we have no air filter hopefully we don't suck in a bird or anything in our intake there i need all the airflow for all the power yeah stang mode his car runs strong it's a strong car s550 great platform good tire he's got his gopro on backwards you're gonna you're gonna have to switch that around when you race me oh listen this is actually a 3d camera you don't want to i need to i need to any questions about mamba since we last what's it just what any changes what's it make i guarantee not to almost kill you this time okay excited about that no credit though yeah yeah he's a good dr i trust him listen if you're a mustang guy and you have a thousand horsepower cars you got to know make sure they're going to kick out on you once in a while oh yeah actually since we raced we pulled it down twice okay uh we went eight which is nice that's badass congrats on that i appreciate that only thing with this car now is totally set up for the drag strip okay so all the power is like off the hit and it'll slowly start to slow down gotcha um i need to get you over to the drag strip i'm trying to get oh no sometimes oh no i'm on a 20. never never drag race never drive racing again no but you know what's cool uh we're excited we're we're going to see what happens i have never roll races car at an event so i can go full send so hopefully won't be no sand on the ground and uh i got to give you credit though this car and as a mustang fanatic i this is my favorite corvette really yeah i appreciate that you know the c8s came out they were great i actually had one i actually canceled it but i had i got to give credit c701 is my favorite core bed of all time everything's the same since we raced but you pull you down twice again drag racing and roll racing are two fan animals like you like to say in your comments yeah the roll race is a faster car because now this is 930 wheel horsepower 930 wheel lower torque by 750 torque that's coyotes don't make much torque without smaller displacement but that's it man i got that it's solid i got something solid we've got bead locks we're not gonna hit the car anymore and uh we're excited so everyone everyone bugs me for this race and guys yeah we're gonna do and hulk too we're gonna do hulk uh and i think july there's a race coming up got some stuff coming to you with our broncos we have on order yeah we got brock we're both getting broncos we got some off-roading stuff planned it's gonna be fun yeah it's gonna be exciting so well i'm ready to hit the track all right let's go here we go staying mode versus street speed see my gopro is in fact on and we are ready i'm not sure what happened there stango might have had a problem i was going off to his uh i was looking over at his mile per hour going off of him and i i waited till i heard his car you know kind of go but i don't know it looked like he had a pretty slow takeoff there so so wow so wow there you have it guys great day at pocono raceway huge thank you to iconic gt500 for having me out and we're actually talking about you hear the cars roaring by we're actually talking about maybe hosting some events together like to bring you guys out and you know like a big car show and then you can run your car i feel like that'd be very very cool so stay tuned for that i think this is the beginning of something epic but fair is fair you know we got to be fair and square i've won a lot of races i got no problem taking the credit when i win and with that you have to accept when you lose and i think the gt500 has me on the top end i think he does you know i think he's got me a little bit he's got a lot more power than last time we met up um i'm pretty much at the same level a little bit more but not much we'll have to i don't know where we go from here i don't really want to add more power to my car i think it's i love it the way it is and even though like yeah it sucks to to not have the the slight edge i'm okay with it the car came out today it ran great against everything it did well no issues and you know i can't complain about that so i think i got to give the dub to iconic gt500 here for this one so i'm still two out of three i'll take it and then staying mode will have to meet back up again you know at some point that was uh that was a bummer awesome day and we're now out two cars in the garage the 63 and the zr1 zr1 update coming tomorrow and the 63 or maybe two days and the 63 is over at uncle rich's house he basically stole the car i was like trying to figure out what car i'm going to park outside and he said you know where are the keys and i said while they're in it and he grabbed it and then drove away so i i mean i assume it's over there in his garage i don't know you can follow his instagram for updates he stole the car now he did offer many times to store it i didn't take him up on it because i feel bad you know like it's it's my problem it's my car i don't want to take up a garage spot over there but you know rich he is you know rich he isn't going to take no for an answer and he stole it but i'm still working on a a real storage solution for the 1963 corvette but right now it's i think anyway i think it's over at uncle rich's house had a great time at the event uh rich did as well i didn't even see his right he went out and didn't even tell me i didn't see him running so i didn't get to video him running but staying mode oddly enough actually has some footage of him running because they lined up and so you can check out his instagram and his youtube for for that little run there uh when his car was running well unfortunately against my car uh he had a belt issue so we'll have to run that back iconic gt500 it's tough hate to say it you know i like to win in that car i like to win in any car slow or fast but i feel like i got to give the win to iconic this time he came back with a lot more power again my car had about the same a little bit more but pretty much the same and it was close last time and it was close again but i gotta give him the edge the zr1 you saw it with iconic you saw it with the 720. i just don't have the the power up top and my arrow just isn't good but i don't want to be a lot of people were commenting on the instagram saying like you should take off the wing and i don't know if i want to be one of those guys you know they show up with a a gutted hellcat it's like what are you doing i don't want to take my wing off i don't want to take pieces out of the car i just feel like that's silly because what does it matter if i win that you know i'm not really that concerned about racing people to 180 miles an hour basically i'm not super worried about it but i at the same time i do like to win so uh maybe we'll do something maybe i'll i'll adjust and add more power and come back for the event in july or it might be june um and we'll see i can race the same people again but the car ran well i have no complaints on the car my mid-range is really strong like my 60 to 130 time is very strong and you saw it against but against both cars if it's a pretty even start and i'm in second gear i'm actually i jump out ahead i think on both i was ahead for a little bit um and then you know they catch up so fair is fair they definitely won and there was a i did a lot of runs that day 15 runs i had no issues i raced supra raced a maggie 2650 blower z06 i also raced a really fast rs3 but unfortunately on that run i only ran 150 miles per hour uh i guess i held the paddle in too long so i went from four to six instead of four to five um so i'd like to run that back that was that should have been very close he might have the top end on me but that was a good race as well i was running all day and the car had no issues that was my own fault and yeah the zr1 did great fun day racing and i think you know i will do more events you know i want to try to keep i actually have a whole video on this coming out but i'm going to try to keep my racing this season on the track and we'll talk more about that later but i had an awesome time again if you have never done a slipstream event and you have a car it doesn't matter if it's fast or slow whatever you got to do it and like i said you know iconic and i were talking we might be hosting some joint events up there really soon so stay tuned on that i do want to keep the zr1 legend alive though not that my car is like there are plenty of cars that are faster as you saw but my car people love to use my car as a benchmark you know it's been a pretty famous not famous i hate to use that word on youtube but it's been a car a lot of people know they say oh that's a quick zr1 i want to see where my car is based on that and you know i'd like to be i'd like to go back there for the next one and come out on top so we'll see i maybe i'll do some adjusting to the zr1 maybe maybe i will i will you guys enjoyed if you did give it a big thumbs up take care have a great night i'll see you in the next onealright guys before this upload begins there is only three days left only three days left to win my 2021 ram trx and right now if you enter on in chain designs.com every five bucks spent gets you 15 entries to win that truck and my thousand horsepower hellcat that's right we are launching the hellcat giveaway right now for the final four days of the trx giveaway you get entered for both automatically you don't have to do anything extra every five bucks spent gets you 15 entries for the truck and for the hellcat at the detail spray we have the wheel and soap cleaner we've got the camo backpacks with the flag on it we've got other backpacks we've got hats sweatshirts key tags all kinds of different key tags newest key tag pull to eject very cool very cool a good seller got the tan flag od green blue line gray red white and blue and the canadian flag and yes if you are a canadian you can enter the hellcat and trx giveaway everything on the website counts to win doesn't matter what you get you can get one of my shirts one of bobby's um a savage garage shirt doesn't matter anything you find on the website that you like gets you entered to win the t-rex and the hellcat grab some great merch and get entered to win both vehicles automatically you automatically get entered for both so if you don't win the trx you can win the hellcat so check out the website once again in shindesigns.com don't miss out only four days left to take advantage of this epic offer not even sure why you're at this event this is for fast cars oh this one's for fast cars i have to switch that around when you race me gone through the tunnel one of the coolest parts of this track for sure pocono welcomes nascar we are here at pocono raceway this is awesome and look who's behind us rich sky roll race in ladash yeah i hope so it is not dude like 1945 chevy i like it what if it's like he gets out there it's like a jet it's like watching an f-22 raptor fly down the track if you've never been to a slipstream event it's awesome i highly recommend it you should sign up do it it's a really cool venue like how often do you get to race on a nascar track not often right rich got the top down you get oh man is he racing with the top down top down rich that's it man let's go you're racing with no roof next race all right so you ready for the first race of the season this is going to be epic pocono raceway couldn't ask for a nicer day great venue and i can't wait no idea who i'm gonna race i know that iconic and i are racing again round three i know that's happening other than that i really have no plans so we'll get out we'll get out there and we'll see who looks fast and we'll try to have some fun i'm not even sure why you're at this event this is for fast cars oh this one's for fast cars yeah fast all right i'm going home then yeah like my car okay yeah i'm gonna go home you know cars to go at least 140. okay yeah i'll go home we're gonna do a little test run see how the car is see how it behaves downpipes in tune dme 720 very very fast car and we'll see how the zr1 does super nice guy we met i'd say three years ago here now and he's had the same car every year i've not had the same car for two years very fast very consistent car so should be a good run wow that is good he's got me on the top end to be expected i got the big wing he's got way better arrow to be expected but that's a good race man 150 160 the arrow of the 720s is hard to beat so there you can see as the speeds get higher my zr1 you know just doesn't have the arrow we got the big wing on the back you know so it's tough but that's a really good race just the top end of that can't do it i love it it's so sick thanks for thanks for racing though great runs against the 720s i know that his 60 to 130 is about equal to mine we're talking like low fours maybe high threes and uh you know low to mid four depending on a lot of factors but you're talking anywhere from three nine to like four or five basically we'll get back out there i wanna race stang mode and iconic can spj is it really cool please come and look at this thing i'll come look at it it's like i gotta give the run down and then i'll come look at it i need an svj that is on the agenda guys svj on the channel maybe later this year or maybe next year i don't know but it's gonna happen for sure iconic gt500 now freshly the world's fastest gt500 he just got in the eights and again this isn't like a stripped-out race car he daily drives it i've seen it before you guys have all seen it on the channel we have raced now two times every race we've done has been very very close so it should be good again i'm making a little bit more he's making more i am running the bell right now we have no air filter hopefully we don't suck in a bird or anything in our intake there i need all the airflow for all the power yeah stang mode his car runs strong it's a strong car s550 great platform good tire he's got his gopro on backwards you're gonna you're gonna have to switch that around when you race me oh listen this is actually a 3d camera you don't want to i need to i need to any questions about mamba since we last what's it just what any changes what's it make i guarantee not to almost kill you this time okay excited about that no credit though yeah yeah he's a good dr i trust him listen if you're a mustang guy and you have a thousand horsepower cars you got to know make sure they're going to kick out on you once in a while oh yeah actually since we raced we pulled it down twice okay uh we went eight which is nice that's badass congrats on that i appreciate that only thing with this car now is totally set up for the drag strip okay so all the power is like off the hit and it'll slowly start to slow down gotcha um i need to get you over to the drag strip i'm trying to get oh no sometimes oh no i'm on a 20. never never drag race never drive racing again no but you know what's cool uh we're excited we're we're going to see what happens i have never roll races car at an event so i can go full send so hopefully won't be no sand on the ground and uh i got to give you credit though this car and as a mustang fanatic i this is my favorite corvette really yeah i appreciate that you know the c8s came out they were great i actually had one i actually canceled it but i had i got to give credit c701 is my favorite core bed of all time everything's the same since we raced but you pull you down twice again drag racing and roll racing are two fan animals like you like to say in your comments yeah the roll race is a faster car because now this is 930 wheel horsepower 930 wheel lower torque by 750 torque that's coyotes don't make much torque without smaller displacement but that's it man i got that it's solid i got something solid we've got bead locks we're not gonna hit the car anymore and uh we're excited so everyone everyone bugs me for this race and guys yeah we're gonna do and hulk too we're gonna do hulk uh and i think july there's a race coming up got some stuff coming to you with our broncos we have on order yeah we got brock we're both getting broncos we got some off-roading stuff planned it's gonna be fun yeah it's gonna be exciting so well i'm ready to hit the track all right let's go here we go staying mode versus street speed see my gopro is in fact on and we are ready i'm not sure what happened there stango might have had a problem i was going off to his uh i was looking over at his mile per hour going off of him and i i waited till i heard his car you know kind of go but i don't know it looked like he had a pretty slow takeoff there so so wow so wow there you have it guys great day at pocono raceway huge thank you to iconic gt500 for having me out and we're actually talking about you hear the cars roaring by we're actually talking about maybe hosting some events together like to bring you guys out and you know like a big car show and then you can run your car i feel like that'd be very very cool so stay tuned for that i think this is the beginning of something epic but fair is fair you know we got to be fair and square i've won a lot of races i got no problem taking the credit when i win and with that you have to accept when you lose and i think the gt500 has me on the top end i think he does you know i think he's got me a little bit he's got a lot more power than last time we met up um i'm pretty much at the same level a little bit more but not much we'll have to i don't know where we go from here i don't really want to add more power to my car i think it's i love it the way it is and even though like yeah it sucks to to not have the the slight edge i'm okay with it the car came out today it ran great against everything it did well no issues and you know i can't complain about that so i think i got to give the dub to iconic gt500 here for this one so i'm still two out of three i'll take it and then staying mode will have to meet back up again you know at some point that was uh that was a bummer awesome day and we're now out two cars in the garage the 63 and the zr1 zr1 update coming tomorrow and the 63 or maybe two days and the 63 is over at uncle rich's house he basically stole the car i was like trying to figure out what car i'm going to park outside and he said you know where are the keys and i said while they're in it and he grabbed it and then drove away so i i mean i assume it's over there in his garage i don't know you can follow his instagram for updates he stole the car now he did offer many times to store it i didn't take him up on it because i feel bad you know like it's it's my problem it's my car i don't want to take up a garage spot over there but you know rich he is you know rich he isn't going to take no for an answer and he stole it but i'm still working on a a real storage solution for the 1963 corvette but right now it's i think anyway i think it's over at uncle rich's house had a great time at the event uh rich did as well i didn't even see his right he went out and didn't even tell me i didn't see him running so i didn't get to video him running but staying mode oddly enough actually has some footage of him running because they lined up and so you can check out his instagram and his youtube for for that little run there uh when his car was running well unfortunately against my car uh he had a belt issue so we'll have to run that back iconic gt500 it's tough hate to say it you know i like to win in that car i like to win in any car slow or fast but i feel like i got to give the win to iconic this time he came back with a lot more power again my car had about the same a little bit more but pretty much the same and it was close last time and it was close again but i gotta give him the edge the zr1 you saw it with iconic you saw it with the 720. i just don't have the the power up top and my arrow just isn't good but i don't want to be a lot of people were commenting on the instagram saying like you should take off the wing and i don't know if i want to be one of those guys you know they show up with a a gutted hellcat it's like what are you doing i don't want to take my wing off i don't want to take pieces out of the car i just feel like that's silly because what does it matter if i win that you know i'm not really that concerned about racing people to 180 miles an hour basically i'm not super worried about it but i at the same time i do like to win so uh maybe we'll do something maybe i'll i'll adjust and add more power and come back for the event in july or it might be june um and we'll see i can race the same people again but the car ran well i have no complaints on the car my mid-range is really strong like my 60 to 130 time is very strong and you saw it against but against both cars if it's a pretty even start and i'm in second gear i'm actually i jump out ahead i think on both i was ahead for a little bit um and then you know they catch up so fair is fair they definitely won and there was a i did a lot of runs that day 15 runs i had no issues i raced supra raced a maggie 2650 blower z06 i also raced a really fast rs3 but unfortunately on that run i only ran 150 miles per hour uh i guess i held the paddle in too long so i went from four to six instead of four to five um so i'd like to run that back that was that should have been very close he might have the top end on me but that was a good race as well i was running all day and the car had no issues that was my own fault and yeah the zr1 did great fun day racing and i think you know i will do more events you know i want to try to keep i actually have a whole video on this coming out but i'm going to try to keep my racing this season on the track and we'll talk more about that later but i had an awesome time again if you have never done a slipstream event and you have a car it doesn't matter if it's fast or slow whatever you got to do it and like i said you know iconic and i were talking we might be hosting some joint events up there really soon so stay tuned on that i do want to keep the zr1 legend alive though not that my car is like there are plenty of cars that are faster as you saw but my car people love to use my car as a benchmark you know it's been a pretty famous not famous i hate to use that word on youtube but it's been a car a lot of people know they say oh that's a quick zr1 i want to see where my car is based on that and you know i'd like to be i'd like to go back there for the next one and come out on top so we'll see i maybe i'll do some adjusting to the zr1 maybe maybe i will i will you guys enjoyed if you did give it a big thumbs up take care have a great night i'll see you in the next one\n"