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Originally Posted by AzNightmare
Doing quick pulls here and there when the traffic opens up is fun in a 300hp car. But when it's a 600hp car, is it maybe too excessive that it actually becomes kind of dangerous?
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600hp+ is definitely excessive. One time when I had the opportunity to instruct in a C7 Z06 (650hp / 650 tq) at Mission, I was just maintaining pace / carrying speed thru T8, and very gradually rolled on the throttle when T9 opened up. Holy mother of god!!! The car just catapulted us to 150 km/h+ effortlessly in the blink of an eye. And while I was accelerating with the tiniest amount of steering input -- ie. my steering wheel wasn't completely straight yet -- I felt the backend of the car having a twitch. It was a little unnerving, and instinct of course just kicked in -- I eased up on the steering and the car settled back down, and we continued our merry way down the front straight.
My first conherent thought after getting over the initial WHOA was -- the car was unnecessarily fast / powerful. And if I were thinking that, then I can't imagine how a person with minimal high performance driver training can possibly tame and control a high powered beast like the C7 Z06.