In this, the latest installment of ZL1 test videos from Chevrolet, entitled “Going for Broke: Perfecting the All-New Camaro ZL1” we get a closer look at the 24 hour track torture test that the new Chevy supercar underwent during development. The test was meant to stretch every system on the car to its limit, especially the new Magnetic Ride Control and Performance Traction Management system.

As you will remember from our previous story on the ZL1’s 24 Hour Test, the car was subjected to 40 minute track sessions, adding up to 4 hours of track time each day over the course of 6 days at GM’s Milford proving grounds. The video gives us several good looks at the ZL1 as it rips around the track, and as cars will often do when driven to the limit – things break. The ZL1 does make a trip to the garage to fix a problem after a little off track excursion, but they never tell us specifically what went wrong, only that it was “something unusual.” One of the engineers in the video says, “The whole idea of the test is to break the car, so it’s not necessarily a failure when we’ve broken something on the car. We want to make sure we break it before a customer goes out and tries to duplicate what we are doing and breaks it themselves.”

The engineers also get into several specifics of what makes the ZL1 track ready right out of the box, such as: better brakes, a differential cooler, an additional fuel pick up in the gas tank for hard cornering, stiffer rear cradle mounts, stronger rear half-shafts, stiffer control arms, and a dual mode exhaust.

We are left with this final thought about the extreme test: “There is track capability, and then there is track durability or endurance. To me endurance is being able to make the car do what it is designed to do, lap after lap, all day long.”