Well, okay.The above statement would be true for any car that the driver mod is missing. Not very hard to press the pedal down in an auto, and claim glorious victory over the faster car without traction. I would assume proper drag radials, would more than make up for the autos advantage. Hell, had this GT500 in this thread had proper tires on the car, the C7 would have needed to replace his front bumper cover.
I for one... cannot wait to run into a C7.... nor a C7Z
Bone stock '14 Corvette Z51 A6 left lane, bone stock '13 GT500 with DR's in the right lane...
And before the comments about Tony's driving are made, he's the one who currently has the fastest bone stock '13 GT500 at 11.2. DR's on a bone stock '13/'14 are somewhat of an exercise in futility. The electronic powertrain feature hobbles the car so badly that it tends to bog, lay down and otherwise have difficulties in the first 60'. Since these passes, Tony loaded a Lund tune in the car and eliminated the EPF and subsequently ran a 10.9 at 129 mph. That being said, I would guess a tune on the C7 would pick up ~25 rwhp and ~.2/2 mph...so it conceivably could run an 11.2 at 122 on stock tires. But with a stock tune, it better be one helluva' driver to beat a stock A6 C7 in 1320'. I have about 60 passes on my '13, and most of the last 20 or so are in the 11.3-11.6 range. I don't think I could beat a stock A6 C7. I mean, maybe I could out-mph one, or even out-ET one...but the RT's these cars can put down since they are automatics are hard to match in a 6-speed car.
From a roll, it's a different story, as Tony's car even beat my '13 GT-R, which traps ~124 in good air. FWIW, the stock M7 C7's are hobbled badly by torque management from the factory too.
S.