[RenegadeXR]

This has all been said before at this point, but:

1) This is obviously a track day event. You're taught etiquette including the hand signals people were giving to each other to pass. You pay to get time on the track, and it's more like the track just happens to be shared with other cars at the same time. Ie: It's supposed to be non competitive. But do people end up racing anyway or being assholes by refusing to let faster cars pass? You bet.

2) The GT driver is not taking an ideal line in many corners, especially in the first half of the video although he cleans it up when revisiting some of them for the 2nd pass. I sense that the ZL1 driver was more seasoned because he took a consistent line the entire time.

3) The GT driver is obviously a little scared to wipe out. He avoided some turns that could have been cut a lot more aggressively. He was hammering the throttle in the straights to get some distance from the Camaro it seems before he gave up and waved him off to pass.

It's still cool to see a Camaro keep pace with a GT despite these factors, but we all know the GT would whoop the ZL1's ass in a professional competitive race. Yes, the ZL1 is better value in terms of performance per dollar, but people pay premiums to ilk out the extra performance that cars like the GT bring to the table.

Basically it's like this: Cost per performance goes up at kind of a linear rate to a certain point. However, once you've reached the limits of modern technology, you need to begin investing in major R&D and materials to ilk out any extra performance. Suddenly, costs begin to go up almost exponentially as you tread new ground. Both the 5th gen ZL1 and now 6th gen ZL1 represent cars that are attainable by the non-super-wealthy and are both harbingers of a greater paradigm shift where-in the performance levels previously reserved for the "exponential" area of the cost vs. performance chart begin to shift into the "linear" area. Just as other cars from other brands eventually followed suit from the 5th gen ZL1, you'll see cars follow suit from the 6th gen ZL1. The GT, by comparison, is bleeding edge for our time, as was the last GT, and you pay the fee for it.

And it's for this same reason why in 10 years, you'll probably see an affordable ZL1 that can whoop the current GT's ass. And you'll see a new GT that whoops that ZL1's ass, but at much higher costs. That's just progress.