We can always appreciate it when an owner buys the latest and greatest radical performance car and doesn’t keep it hidden away in the garage. The owner of this C8 ZR1 is set to make every penny of that $174,995 MSRP count and use it as much as possible. After taking theirs to get dyno tested immediately after the engine break-in period, they have not been shy about taking it to the track to set a stock C8 ZR1 quarter-mile record.

The owner of this C8 ZR1, who goes by superchargederay on social media, took their 2025 C8 ZR1 Corvette to the drag strip over the weekend to see if they could set a new personal best quarter-mile time. The ZR1 is equipped with launch control, but that, combined with the rear-engine layout, only makes it easier to launch compared to a front-engine Vette. It can still be tricky to plant 1,064 horsepower, even on a prepped drag strip surface. But with the addition of a pair of 18-inch drag radial tires on the rear, the ZR1 was able to fly down the quarter mile in just 9.303 seconds at 150.85 miles per hour as seen in the time slip (the onboard Dragy showed 9.33 at 152 mph) with a 1.498-second sixty-foot. Pretty impressive for a Corvette with only drag radials, and that was never meant to be a factory quarter-mile monster.

According to General Motors, a stock C8 ZR1 can sprint from a standstill to the quarter mile in 9.6 seconds with the optional ZTK Performance Package. Without the ZTK package, the ZR1 completes the quarter mile in 9.7 seconds. The difference in time is due to the slightly stickier Michelin tires that comes with the ZTK option for improved lap times. GM notes that acceleration testing was performed on a non-prepped drag strip surface, so it should come as no surprise that with a pair of drag radials on a prepped surface, the C8 ZR1 quarter-mile time dropped by almost half a second.

Behind the driver for this C8 ZR1 quarter-mile record-setting run is the twin-turbocharged 5.5L V8 LT7 gasoline engine, which features a flat-plane crank and produces 1,064 horsepower at 7,000 rpm, plus 828 pound-feet of torque at 6,000 rpm, making for the most powerful production V8 ever produced by any major American auto manufacturer. Makes us wonder if a set of sticky track tires would also help the ZR1X with its hybrid front drive.