You didn't actually think that General Motors was going to allow some kid from Long Island embarrass them at their own party did you? You were right to think that way.

The company's first real ringer, engineer Aaron Link, took the track in a CTS-V manual in group 3 and ran a 2:48:902, nipping the M3 by about 2 seconds. The privately owned M5 wasn't really in the hunt with a 3:05:395.