Every Chevrolet Corvette in CSR2, Measured

Chevrolet has more cars in the CSR Racing 2 global top 100 than any other manufacturer. Eleven of them, ahead of Ford on nine and Porsche on seven.

Not one is a Corvette.

Chevrolet's top 100 without its sports car

Here is the full list of Chevrolets inside the top hundred: the Ringbrothers Loadmaster ENYO at 9th, the Hoonigan Napalm Nova at 20th, the Camaro DuSold Designs at 24th, the Sick Seconds 1.0 Camaro SS at 38th, the Ringbrothers Chevelle Recoil at 39th, the Blazin Rodz Chevelle Doughboy at 51st, the American Legends Chevelle Phoenix at 53rd, Zwygart's Hot Rodz Nova NovaX at 72nd, the Roadster Shop Camaro Road Rage at 73rd, the Kelly and Son Bel Air at 78th and the Greening Camaro IROC Z28 at 96th.

Camaros, Chevelles, Novas, a Bel Air and a truck. The model Chevrolet actually sells as its sports car is absent from the list entirely, despite having 37 entries on the sheet — more than the Camaro and Chevelle combined.

The closest a Corvette gets is 119th.

Three tiers, and the strongest showing is not Tier 5

Tier 4 is where the Corvette performs best relative to its competition — six of eight beat the tier median, led by the 2020 Stingray Convertible at 9.888 and 47th in tier.

In Tier 5, where 22 of the 37 live, fewer than half beat the tier median and the family median of 7.570 is two tenths slower than the tier's 7.353. That is the central problem with the badge: most of them are in the tier where they are least competitive.

The quickest Corvettes

Eddie's Rod and Custom Corvette C2 leads the family at 6.824, and it is a restomod rather than a modern Corvette. The quickest factory-shaped car is the 2024 ZR1 at 6.854.

The two C8.R entries are a clean colour pair: the yellow car records 6.954 and the grey 7.013, both on 714 PP with identical 200/6.5 nitrous. The 0.059-second gap between them tracks their EVO difference of 31 points.

The Z06 group all run a 5.00 final drive

Four Corvettes on the sheet run a final drive of 5.00 or 4.99 — the longest setting available, used by 33 cars across the whole game.

They are the 2023 Z06 Z07 Package at Elite Customs level 36, the 2023 Z06 Convertible, the 2023 Z06 and the Label Motorsports C8 Z06. Three of them record within five thousandths of each other at 7.569, 7.571 and 7.574, all on identical 2,092 EVO.

Given that the top of Tier 5 converges hard on a 2.00 final drive, a cluster of cars running 5.00 is unusual, and all four sit outside the top 400. We cannot tell from the data whether the setting is holding them back or simply suits a car that was never going to be quick.

Elite Customs across three tiers

Eight entries carry an Elite Customs level, and the Corvette provides a clean demonstration of something we only recently got right ourselves.

The 2020 Corvette Stingray exists in both Tier 4 and Tier 5, each with its own level-0 and upgraded entry. Within Tier 5 it goes 8.055 to 6.914. Within Tier 4 it goes 10.241 to 9.905. Both climbs behave exactly as expected.

The C3 ZR1 at Elite Customs level 50 is the Tier 3 highlight, recording 7.292 and 11th in its tier — the best tier placing any Corvette achieves anywhere.

Two Corvettes carry almost no build at all

The bottom of the family is unusual. The Corvette Stingray Z06 records 12.005 in Tier 4 on 171 EVO, and the Corvette C7.R records 11.967 on 187.

Those are the two lowest EVO figures in the family by a wide margin, and among the lowest anywhere on the sheet. For comparison, the median Tier 4 Corvette carries well over 1,500. Both are four-star cars sitting near the bottom of the tier.

They are not evidence that the Corvette is a bad car. They are evidence that nobody has built these two, which is a different thing entirely and exactly the distinction a level-0 Elite Customs entry teaches.

What the Corvette is actually for

The family returns a median 0.137 seconds over its dyno predictions, against a sheet median of 0.115. So Corvettes reward driving slightly more than the average car, which partly offsets their mid-table pace.

21 of 37 carry purple stars and the family uses 21 distinct tunes across 34 timed cars, so there is less experimentation here than in the Mustang or 911 families.

• Best outright: Eddie's Rod and Custom Corvette C2 at 6.824 and 119th — the only Corvette inside the top 150.
• Best modern car: the 2024 ZR1 at 6.854 and 149th.
• Racing Tier 4: the 2020 Stingray Convertible at 9.888, 47th in tier, where six of eight Corvettes beat the median.
• Racing Tier 3: the C3 ZR1 at Elite Customs level 50, 11th in tier and the best placing in the family.
• Do not buy a Corvette expecting a top-100 car. Thirty-seven entries, none of them close.

All 37 are in the record database with their tunes, dyno figures and ranks.