CorvetteMagazine.com got a chance to spend some time with Goeckel’s C5 while it was at Vette Brakes and Products in St. Petersburg, Florida, for an upgrade to 14-inch Sport rotors all around and other suspension/brake improvements in preparation for the 2001 One Lap of America event on may 4-12. Not willing to risk a customer’s expensive car in the hands of an Internet journalist, Vette Brake’s Paul Lesinsky took us on a quite comprehensive tour of the car’s capabilities on the streets of St. Pete. When you’re talking 650 horsepower and 200 mile-per-hour speeds, you anticipate a bucking engine, buck-board suspension, and noisy exhaust. But that’s not the case with Goeckel’s One Lap-prepared C5. The twin-turbo LS1, even with its custom-ground Lingenfelter cam, idles like a stock Corvette and tools around town with none of the temperamental characteristics expected from such a

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