[VIDEO] Jessie Iwuji Makes Some Passes in His 2023 Corvette Z06

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[VIDEO] Jessie Iwuji Makes Some Passes in His 2023 Corvette Z06


For this video, we join Jessie Iwuji as he takes his Amplify Orange 2023 Corvette Z06 to the Irwindale 1/8th Dragstrip. Jessie is running with a GoPro on his helmet and that gives us a great vantage point to watch him drag race the new Z06.

Like we’ve seen with some other pre-race burn-out attempts, the Z06 is extremely hard to do a standing burn out with because the traction is just too great. Jessie is struggling trying to figure out the best custom launch control settings to give him the best hook-up, and eventually he also tries running on the default settings with little change.

During one of his races, the car appears to throw a red warning message on the Driver Information Center, and Jessie is complaining how it didn’t want to shift at that moment. It appears to be a one-off as he comes back and makes one additional run without issue.

Following all of his passes, Jessie offers his impressions and believes for the car to really hook up you need to have a better prepped track that what he saw at Irwindale.

From Jessie Iwuji via YouTube:

I took my C8 Z06 back to Irwindale Dragway at night in 60 degree weather to see if I could get a quicker ET but unfortunately the track prep wasn’t great and I wasn’t hooking as well as I know this car will hook on drag radials if the tires could get good heat in them or track prep be better. Right now the biggest hurdle with the car is figuring out a way to get the tires heated up properly since there doesn’t seem to be any way of doing a standing burnout in this car. I did, however, end up getting my fastest mile per hour multiple times, 108+ MPH! I’m running on a 20″ mickey thompson drag radial and everything else is bone stock on the car(stock exhaust as well).


Source:
Jessie Iwuji

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