[FAST LS1]

I have a lot of friends that ride sport bikes. They've talked before about how fast bikes
are around a road course but I tend to wonder just how fast they are in comparison
to cars? How close hypothetically would a stock C5 ZO6 be in comparision to a
Hayabusa or any other current production bike on a road coarse given a skilled
driver/rider? I remember the old article of the Viper vs the then fastest production bike
in one of the car magazines and the Viper won, so I'm guessing it's close but maybe the
bike would win. That's also taking into acount an expert rider on the bike aka someone
that's crazy.

[roy]

It all depends on the track. lets take the infamous "Green Hell" (Nuerburgring) . The fastest street production bike time is a Yamaha R1 at 8m 15 secs. This was done with a professional rider on Metzlers . I myself clock the ring @ 8m30 secs. 99 percent of the bikes are just moving chicanes in front of me when we hit the twisties and off cambers. But take off like a rocket on the sweepers and straights.

here are some comparison times for other stock production cars on the ring vs. the R1
New GT3: 7 min. 54 sec.
Old GT3: 8 min. 03 sec.
GT2: 7 min. 46 sec.
996 Turbo: 7 min. 56 sec.
CTS-V: 8 min. 19 sec