[VIDEO] Chevrolet Puts the 2015 Corvette’s Performance Data Recorder to the Test

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[VIDEO] Chevrolet Puts the 2015 Corvette's Performance Data Recorder to the Test

C7 Corvette Engineer Tadge Juechter has emphasized all along that everything on the new seventh-generation Stingray has a purpose – or it wouldn’t be there.

Same goes for the new Performance Data Recorder that just became available on the 2015 model.

While some might see the new high-definition camera that records what is going on in front of the Stingray as just an electronic play toy, you better believe that Juechter sees it as much more.

In fact, the idea behind the new PDR is to help drivers become better as it shows them visually where they made mistakes. But the PDR doesn’t just show you a video. Vital information such as the speed of the car, a G-force meter, throttle positioning, steering wheel angle, RPMs, and more can be overlaid on the screen.

In an effort to find out if all this information can actually help a driver turn in faster times around the track, GM took two pros – Corvette Racing standout Tommy Milner and legendary racer Ron Fellows – and two inexperienced performance driving enthusiasts and let them use the system to see how much better it could help them become in a day.

The action took place at Watkins Glen, where Fellows and Milner gave the two amateurs a lap around the track to give them a feel.

Then those amateurs took the wheel to establish a base time for themselves. That led to a study session where they checked out the video footage and data from the PDR in an effort to find out where they could improve.

Did the PDR session really help a lot? Find out by watching this video. Of course, before we even watch it, we have a feeling that Juechter and his team wouldn’t have included it on the 2015 Corvette if the system wasn’t very worthwhile.

I will tell you from personal experience that I would love to have had such a system in my 1997 Corvette as I took laps with the other state captains of the National Corvette Caravan around the new Motorsports Park at the National Corvette Museum Friday morning. (By the way, thank you, NCM, for giving us such an honor in appreciation for our work organizing the state caravans; it’s a morning my 15-year-old son Chris and I won’t soon forget!)

Not that I didn’t before, but I have the utmost respect for the men who have made Corvette Racing such a success. They make it look so easy speeding around the track, but if you’re an amateur like me, trust me, it’s not!


Source:
Chevrolet

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