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" TRACK Barber Motorsports Park Location: Birmingham Alabama Length: 2.3 miles Lap Time: 100.56 seconds Average Speed: 81.4 mph Top Speed: 119.12 mph Our Road Test Editor, Robin Warner, took the brand new 2014 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 to Barber Motorsports Park in Alabama to see if Chevy&amp;#039;s new track-oriented, muscle-bound coupe had the moves to back up its spec sheet. This is his brief report. Barber Motorsports Park never allows the car to open up for elongated stretches, but the track offers an elegant flow with three different straightaways. In the Z/28, we hit close to 120 mph on each one, the back straightaway just slightly faster than the others. Turn 1 was a thrill because it&amp;#039;s deceptively fast. Originally expecting a 50-mph apex as we entered blindly, we could maintain more like 75 mph while shooting downhill. SEE THIS: The 2014 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 is a monster track car The Z/28 showed just the slightest whiff of understeer in longer sweeping corners, but any power-on shenanigans quickly sent the tail wagging the dog. We left plenty of lap time on the table and still managed an average speed that would warrant a ticket on any interstate.  NOTES:   Top Speed: 119 mph. To hit this speed, you have to fully commit through the high-speed esses.  High-speed Esses: 87 mph and 1.2 lateral g. What&amp;#039;s crazy is how comfortable that much grip felt at high speed. Credit the brilliant DSSV shocks.  Max Braking into Turn 5: 1.3 g. And I could have (should have) hit the brakes harder. Phenomenal stopping power.  Banked Turn 13: Max lateral forces of 1.5 g. In the car, you don&amp;#039;t think much about it, but seeing that much grip in the data shocked me. I never expected this out of a Camaro.   Robin also took the car to Buttonwillow Raceway Park, so read his report on how the car did at that track, too. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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