Rick Hendrick Is About to Overpay for the First 2025 Corvette ZR1

In what has grow to be a practice with Chevrolet and Barrett-Jackson, the primary 2025 Corvette ZR1 slated for retail manufacturing can be auctioned for charity. It’ll cross the block throughout Barrett-Jackson’s Scottsdale occasion, operating January 18-26.

Technically talking, the automobile on the public sale is simply a placeholder. Collection manufacturing for the 233-mph ‘Vette hasn’t begun, so bidders will truly be paying for the chance to get the primary automobile. As such, it may be optioned up nevertheless the client needs. And let’s be trustworthy for a second. That purchaser will nearly definitely be NASCAR guru Rick Hendrick.

Hendrick already has a sprawling assortment of Corvettes new and outdated, together with an entire bunch with VINs that finish in 001. He purchased the primary retail manufacturing C8, the primary Z06, the primary Z06 convertible, and most just lately, the primary Corvette E-Ray. Each went for over $1 million, with the Z06 topping all of them at a whopping $3.6 million. As a substitute of pocketing the cash, Chevrolet sends all of the proceeds to charity. This yr, the sale will profit the American Pink Cross.

There’s definitely cause to imagine this public sale might prime Hendrick’s Z06 buy. Debuting earlier this yr, the 2025 ZR1 is the quickest, quickest, and strongest manufacturing facility Corvette ever. It could possibly attain 60 mph in a scant 2.3 seconds, and GM President Mark Reuss drove it to a prime pace of 233 mph. Chevrolet has been testing the ZR1 on the Nürburgring, however official lap occasions haven’t been introduced. Ford just lately claimed the North American file with the Mustang GTD, breaking the 7-minute mark. However with 1,064 horsepower and an aggressive aero bundle, it’s broadly believed the ZR1 can beat that point.

Any guesses as to how a lot it’s going to convey at public sale? Soar into the feedback and tell us.