[VIDEO] Street Vettes vs a Chevy Camaro ZL1 Supercar V8 Racer in Aussie Shootout

Apr 11, 2025

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[VIDEO] Street Vettes vs a Chevy Camaro ZL1 Supercar V8 Racer in Aussie Shootout

Can a modern stock production sports car outrun a race car?

That’s the question that the guys at Drive.com.au set out to answer during a brief break in the action at Queensland Raceway in Ipswich, where Triple Eight Race Engineering was holding a customer day and offered use of the track for an hour.

The competition featured a pair of production Corvettes, an E-Ray and a Z06, going up against the 2024 Triple Eight Race Engineering Red Bull Ampol Racing Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Supercar that packs a 600 horsepower 5.7-liter V8 under the hood (or bonnet, if you’re from across the Pond).

First up, in a straight drag race, as you might expect, the E-Ray – with its combination of tire-sticking all-wheel drive and initial boost of its electric motors up front – absolutely demolishes the Camaro – by a whopping 2.42 seconds!

Sure, the modern production car might be fast in a straight line, but how would it handle the six turns of the lightning-quick Queensland track?

To answer that question, the guys turned to a stock Z06, which of course is sometimes referred to as a street-legal race car with all the lessons learned from Corvette Racing baked into its DNA. Motorsport legend Craig Lowndes climbs behind the wheel of the Z06 and records two timed laps. Was he able to beat the race car’s time? Check out the video and find out…