We’ve been seeing the 2014 Corvette Stingray at the drag strip more and more often, While various tuners have been bringing all sorts of C7s to the races, today we are dealing with a stock one. This battles it out with a Lexus IS-F.
As you can imagine, the Japanese performance sedan is modified - otherwise the result of the race would be obvious. To be more specific, the 2014 Corvette Stingray usually does the quarter mile in 12 seconds, while the IS-F needs an extra 1.1 second for the same job.
The exact mods of the Lexus IS-F aren't specified and the only thing we can tell by looking at the footage is that they've changed the rear wheels.
The clip below shows the ‘Vette pulling a 12.23s run, while the Lexus managed a 11.93s time. Yes, the small difference means that it could’ve been the other way around and we’re talking about the human factor here.
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