MOTOR Magazine Australia

FEAR FACTOR

WHEN WORD GOT out I had booked Heathcote Raceway for my next Camaro ZL1 update, Associate Editor Newman didn’t mince words: “Get into the 10s… or don’t come back at all.”

He was joking of course. But I understood. He’d achieved some respectable times at PCOTY, like a 3.9sec run to 100km/h from rest and a 11.7sec 400m pass, but they were still about half a second adrift from Chevrolet’s own figures. Now it was up to me to

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