Touring Laps in the NCM Motorsports Park Cadillac Blackwing!

If you just clicked on the link to this article, it’s likely you have more than a passing curiosity about either the Cadillac Blackwing, about running tour laps at the NCM Motorsports Park, or (ideally) about BOTH.  Regardless of your answer, we’ve got you covered.  What follows is Corvsport.com’s review of the Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing Tour Lap Experience at the NCM Motorsports Park in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

As many of our regular readers know, we normally focus our attention on the various Corvette driving experiences available at the NCM Motorsports Park.  We’ve previously reported on the Park’s “Drive Your Own Car Tour Laps”, the C7/C8 Corvette Tour Laps, and the Z06 and ERay driving experiences.  We’ve also shared our experiences while attending the High Performance Drivers Introduction (HPDI), High Performance Driving Education (HPDE) and Driving Academy courses offered at the MSP throughout the year.

But when the management team at the Park shared with Corvsport.com that they’d added a Cadillac Blackwing to their liverie, we were more than a little intrigued!  After all, the NCM Motorsports Park is best known for hosting Corvette-related driving experiences….and while the Blackwing is powered by virtually the same, supercharged 6.2L V8 engine as that found in the seventh-generation Z06 Corvette, its similarities to Chevrolet’s flagship sports car largely end there, outside a handful of shared “stock” components that GM engineers incorporated into both of these cars.

The Cadillac Blackwing is moderately larger, longer and much heavier than the current mid-engine C8 Corvette Stingray, which makes it a bit more demanding to operate on the track.   The Cadillac measures more than sixteen feet (194.9 inches to be precise) in length, with a wheelbase of nearly ten feet (116 inches).  Comparatively speaking, the 2024 Corvette is nearly a foot shorter (182.3 inches in length) with a nine foot (107.2 inch) wheelbase.  In terms of overall ratios, while the Cadillac IS longer, the proportions between the two cars are similar.  Experienced drivers may register the similarities in proportion when driving each on the track.  Also, while front-to-rear weight bias can significantly impact drivability, Cadillac promotes that the Blackwing has an ideal front-to-rear weight distribution/balance, and that was my experience with the car as well.  More on that in a minute.