There are three things you care about when hurtling towards a left-hand hairpin corner at 130-mph: grip, brakes, and more grip. Almost everything else in the universe vanishes to an impossibly small point when faced with the very real demands of shrinking asphalt, a retaining wall, and 3,300 lbs of accelerated metal. You’re not thinking about your job, wondering whether you remembered to pay the electric bill, or mentally re-ordering the films in the Fast and Furious franchise according to progressive levels of both baldness and perspiration on the part of its leads. It’s just you and the immediacy of the physics you’re juggling with one hand on the wheel, the other clenched around the shifter, and both feet cycling the pedals like the Tour de France if PEDs were finally made legal.
Maybe I should back that up a bit, because it turns out that it actually is my job today to make sure that the 2017 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport that I am driving traces a route on its built-in GPS lap timer that is identical to the track map at Atlanta Motorsports Park, which is located just a few minutes outside of Dawsonville, Georgia. The same rolling hills and twisting roads that gave NASCAR legend Bill Elliot the teenage training he needed to become the first million-dollar winner the series had ever seen now serve as the proving ground for Chevy’s latest high performance spin-off of the lauded C7 Corvette Stingray.
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