Best Corvette in CSR2: Every Corvette Record Ranked

America’s sports car has a big CSR2 garage: 34 records on our CSR2 world records sheet, from the 1950s C1 to the latest ZR1, spread across Tiers 3, 4 and 5. With so many to choose from, which Corvette is actually worth building? The answer has a few surprises, and the newest car isn’t one of them.

The best Corvettes in Tier 5

Corvette	Record	Rank in Tier 5
Eddie’s Rod & Custom C2 ‘XP-63’	6.824	119
Corvette ZR1 2024	6.854	149
2020 Corvette Stingray (E.C. Level 35)	6.914	195
Corvette C8.R	6.954	234
2025 Corvette ZR1	7.020	281
Label Motorsports Corvette Stingray	7.050	291
Corvette (C1) (E.C. Level 36)	7.299	423
2023 Corvette Z06 ‘Z07 Package’ (Evo)	7.329	435
Corvette ZR1 2018	7.680	644
Corvette (C4) ZR-1	7.730	669

Best record per version at the time of writing, out of 890 timed Tier 5 cars. All purple-star records.

No Corvette in the top 100

For all its fame, the Corvette doesn’t reach the very top of Tier 5. Not one of its 22 Tier 5 records makes the top 100, and the typical one ranks around 565th, in the bottom half of the tier. The fastest is Eddie’s Rod & Custom C2 ‘XP-63’, a restomod of the 1960s car, at 119th. Custom builds beating factory cars is a pattern across all the American cars in CSR2.

The 2024 ZR1 beats the 2025

The best factory Corvette is the Corvette ZR1 2024, at 149th. You might expect the newer 2025 ZR1 to be faster, but its best record is 281st, more than 130 places lower; the gold-star 2025 car is 310th. If you’re choosing between the two, the 2024 car is the one to build.

Further back, the older ZR1s show how far the line has come: the 2018 ZR1 is around 644th and the C4 ZR-1 669th.

Elite Customs transforms the Stingray

The 2020 Corvette Stingray has two Tier 5 records, and they’re nearly 600 places apart. At Elite Customs Level 35 it’s 195th, the third-best Corvette in the tier. At Level 0, recorded at a lower star level, it’s 771st. The C1 tells the same story: 423rd at Level 36, 795th at Level 0.

Not all of each gap is Elite Customs, since the Level 0 records were set at lower star levels, but the upgrades clearly turn these cars from back-markers into mid-table contenders. Our Elite Custom tokens guide covers what Level 50 costs and which cars give the most per token.

The Z06 and its unusual gearing

The 2023 Z06 family is mid-table, from 435th for the ‘Z07 Package’ (Evo) to around 607th for the gold-star coupe. What stands out is the tune: almost every Z06 record uses a final drive of 5.00, a setting only ten Tier 5 records run. Most of those ten are these Corvettes. The 2020 Stingrays in Tier 4 use 5.00 too. Copy a typical Tier 5 tune onto a Z06 and you won’t get near its record; our best tune study shows what the common setup looks like.

Corvettes in Tiers 3 and 4

• Tier 3: the Corvette (C3) ZR1, a Legends car, ranks 11th of 81 at Elite Customs Level 50 and 40th at Level 0. Our Legends guide covers restoring it. The Grand Sport Convertible is 46th; the two-star Corvette Stingray is 80th of 81.
• Tier 4: the 2020 Stingray leads, with the Convertible at 47th of 232 and the coupe at Elite Customs Level 50 in 50th. The Rocket Bunny Stingray is 107th. At the bottom, the four-star C7.R and Stingray Z06 sit around 206th to 209th.

Which Corvette should you build?

• The fastest: the C2 ‘XP-63’ restomod, 119th in Tier 5.
• A modern Corvette: the 2024 ZR1 (149th), not the 2025.
• If you have Elite tokens: the 2020 Stingray, which jumps to 195th in Tier 5 with Elite Customs.
• For Tier 4: the 2020 Stingray Convertible.
• For Tier 3: the C3 ZR1 Legend at Elite Customs Level 50.

Every Corvette linked above is in our Chevrolet collection, deliverable stock or fully maxed. For how the Corvette compares with Ford and Dodge, see our muscle cars ranking.

The verdict

The best Corvette in CSR2 is a custom C2 restomod, the ‘XP-63’, 119th in Tier 5; the best factory car is the 2024 ZR1, which beats the newer 2025 ZR1 by more than 130 places. No Corvette reaches the Tier 5 top 100, but Elite Customs makes the 2020 Stingray a strong pick in Tiers 4 and 5, and the C3 ZR1 Legend is a top-15 car in Tier 3.