It looked like with all the strategy details, it was going to be a close race whether it was on fuel mileage or tires or whatever. Road America was the site of the first on-track running of the Corvette C8.R in 2018, and another chapter of the eighth-generation Corvette will be written this weekend. Corvette Racing will ride a two-race winning streak in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship into one of North America’s greatest tracks: historic Road America. If you aren't doing this already, you need to start... Toyota star Tom Ingram completed a last-to-victory recovery across the British Touring Car Championship round at Croft by winning the reversed-grid finale. For us to get No. “It was only after the race that people started talking to me about it. Official communications and press releases from Corvette Racing. The plan was with a couple laps to go once he got there, it wasn’t worth throwing away a win and 1-2 finish for Corvette Racing. 3 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C8.R: DID YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PORSCHES? Garcia and Taylor also were runners-up two weeks ago at Sebring, where Taylor also set a GTLM track record en route to pole position. It’s a driver’s favorite for sure. Named by MotorTrend as 2020 Car of the Year, the 2020 Stingray is Chevrolet’s first mid-engine production Corvette. The fifth (and, so far, final) edition of the Dodge Viper was the first one that wasn't available as a convertible. Corvette C8.R Corvette Racing No. Corvette Racing pair Antonio Garcia and Jordan Taylor secured their fifth IMSA Sportscar Championship victory of the season under the lights in an all-GT race at a wet Charlotte 'roval'. The Meyer Shank Racing Acura NSXs were only eighth and ninth in class – although Mario Farnbacher was fast in the wetter conditions – while the third of Gradient Racing entry, shared by Marc Miller/Till Bechtolsheimer, brought out the red flag with 22mins of the session left to run when Miller crashed at Turn 7. Corvette Racing at Road Atlanta: Oh So Close! Bring on Road America.” 4 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C8.R – FINISHED SECOND IN GTLM: It was the strategy and pit stops that made the difference. Fernando Alonso is set to get his first track action since his return to the Renault Formula 1 team when he tests in Barcelona on Tuesday. 4 Mobil 1/SiriusXM Chevrolet Corvette C8.R from nearly a lap down in the six-hour endurance race to nearly a second victory of the year in another highly competitive GT Le Mans (GTLM) class battle. But the Corvette Racing guys got us back out front and we were able to pull a big gap in that second stint to the Porsches and BMWs. I think even the 4 car got stuck behind me trying to leave, and then when I saw the Porsches leave they knocked into each other. They did a phenomenal job on all the stops today. 4 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C8.R – FINISHED SECOND IN GTLM: Gavin won for the seventh time at Sebring, and Milner took his third victory at the circuit. We’ll for sure have some work to do to find an advantage somewhere if we can and ultimately not make mistakes throughout the race. Our guys did an outstanding job throughout the race. A lot like qualifying, we’ll go back and say, ‘If I had just a second better on my in-lap or braking into the pitlane, maybe that would have put us just ahead.’ Even then the gap to them before we pitted was already big so trying to make up that much time and keep them behind would have been really hard. It was all pretty close but then all fell apart there as far as that goes. It was a great result for the No. HOW DO YOU GO ABOUT SETTING UP FOR A SPRINT RACE FOR SEBRING INSTEAD OF 12 HOURS? I do want to dedicate this win to a great friend of mine who passed away just before Daytona – Nick Moss, who supported me throughout all my career. He was there for sure. Saturday’s victory also came on the one-year anniversary of the 2020 Corvette Stingray production car’s public debut. But this was a great result for Corvette Racing with the 1-2 finish and the championship lead. 4 Corvette. ", ANTONIO GARCIA, NO. Look for Lung Cancer Signs and Symptoms. Look for rheumatoid arthritis treatments. It’s a tight window. The IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship at Road America is scheduled for 12:05 p.m. “After going so long without winning race before Daytona, I really wanted another one today. 4 Mobil 1/SiriusXM Chevrolet Corvette C8.R took a 0.480-second victory over the pole-sitting No. Of those, just 716 were powered by the mighty "Six Pack" induction setup. Do you or someone you know suffer from RA arthritis? CORVETTE RACING AT LAGUNA SECA: Points Lead for Garcia, Magnussen Going to Finale Originally published at CorvetteRacing.com MONTEREY, Calif. (Sept. 9, 2018) – For the second year in a row, Corvette Racing will head to the finale of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship with the Driver and Team points lead in the GT Le Mans (GTLM) category. That’s great for Corvette Racing and Team Chevy. "I don't know if it was risky move or not, but at that point I didn't think about the championship. Our guys did an outstanding job throughout the race. I was already in the fast lane and had priority. Drivers, constructors and team results for the top racing series from around the world at the click of your finger The Lexus driver was briefly elevated to third but a drive-through penalty dropped him to eighth, one place behind Farnbacher, as the Roman De Angelis/Ian James Heart of Racing Aston Martin beat the Bell/Michael De Quesada Lexus to third. Having tested the Corvette C8.R there for the first time and now what we’ve achieved with the team and our partners at Michelin, I think we’ll have a solid car there and it’s something I’m really looking forward to driving in and competing with. We’ve got the best group at Corvette Racing to get us out front.”, Related: What are they talking about? “This was a tough day. Our Corvette C8.R has really come alive in the last two races. Road America is one of my favorite tracks in the IMSA championship. You have a very short window where the track is going to improve or not. HOW DO YOU GO ABOUT SETTING UP FOR A SPRINT RACE FOR SEBRING INSTEAD OF 12 HOURS? It generates great racing. . Corvette Racing’s record at Le Mans is impressive, to say the least… 1: As in one team, one manufacturer and one model of car for 20 years: Corvette Racing, Chevrolet and the Chevrolet Corvette. CORVETTE RACING AT ATLANTA: Runner-Up Finish for Gavin, Milner No. I had to start with the P2 cars, and there were a couple of slow guys in their field. You want to be comfortable with your car and trust in it. 3 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C8.R: "When people talk about Road America, you’re talking about long straights, big brake zones and a lot of high-speed corners. The action is great, and the exhaust notes are heaven. Olly in the end really made the race for us with saving fuel and having a bit better pit stop and get out in front of the 3 car. It’s not like we’re going there with a completely brand new car, but going there with the testing we’ve done, the racing we’ve done and knowledge that we’ve gained, it will be fun to back there with this new car. We’ll have to be extra vigilant about no pitlane incidents or making mistakes on the track…. The No. You’re also not having to factor in that night finish or how the track is going to evolve. “I knew it was going to be messy pitting under yellow because everyone gets stacked up. The guys didn’t mention it to me. I have to take my hat off to the crew. The all-new mid-engine platform served as a clean slate, a first for Corvette Racing since the C5.R. 4 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C8.R – GTLM RACE-WINNER: "It’s been an amazing day. Corvette Racing at Road Atlanta: Right Places, Right Times R. I didn’t see it mentioned in the story, but I believe I heard the pole winning run was also a track record. ET on Saturday with live network coverage on NBC plus streaming options on the NBC Sports App. Thanks to Corvette Racing and Tommy for doing a wonderful job to bring the car home at the end. The plan was with a couple laps to go once he got there, it wasn’t worth throwing away a win and 1-2 finish for Corvette Racing. Ultimately all we needed was that one yellow, and we got it to get us back in the hunt again. “It was looking like it was going to be very, very close pace wise. 3 Corvette in the Team standings. The combination of the heat in the track and the tire compound made it difficult, but we tried to hang in there as best we could. We also had to go to a slightly different tire set, and that made it a little harder. The duo drove their No. That was pretty much the end. Despite a resounding victory in the wet at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Bill Auberlen said his advantage was down to the characteristics of the Turner Motorsport BMW M6 in treacherous conditions. 3 Corvette, Links and Info for the 2020 Cadillac Grand Prix of Sebring, Corvette Racing at Sebring: Looking To Go Back-to-Back, [VIDEO] Engineering Explained Looks at the Five Brilliant “Flaws” of the C8 Corvette, Corvette Delivery Dispatch with National Corvette Seller Mike Furman for July 19th, Corvette Racing at Charlotte: Garcia, Taylor Win a Thriller, Corvette Racing at Charlotte: Jordan Taylor Wins GTLM Pole In No.3 C8.R, Links and Info for the Motul 100% Synthetic Grand Prix. So he was probably a little bit nicer to me than he could have been! The things that broke our way over the last four races didn’t happen today, but that is how it goes sometimes. SEBRING, Fla. (July 14, 2020) – Corvette Racing went 1-2 at Sebring International Raceway as Oliver Gavin and Tommy Milner took a GT Le Mans (GTLM) victory in the Cadillac Grand Prix for the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship on Saturday. 3 Corvette in the Team standings. We’ll go back, look at the data to see where we can make gains before coming back here in October for Petit Le Mans.”, Related: I think we may have had a little bit of a tire problem at the end so that yellow really helped us ultimately. DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (July 4, 2020) – Corvette Racing earned the first victory with the new Chevrolet Corvette C8.R, and the team won for the 100th time in IMSA competition Saturday night as Antonio Garcia and Jordan Taylor claimed the IMSA WeatherTech 240 at Daytona. Telitz, who had moved up to third overall - ahead of early spinner Spengler as the conditions got worse - got put back behind the GTLM cars for the restart, but the yellows returned almost immediately when Till Bechtolsheimer smashed the Gradient Acura into a wall. Garcia took the GT Le Mans (GTLM) checkered flag by 1.977 seconds in the No. The work done by the whole of Corvette Racing – drivers, crew and Chevrolet and team engineers – has been evident with back-to-back class victories and pole positions at Daytona and Sebring earlier this month. It took us awhile to get 100 so it’s nice to get over the hump to get 101 and not have to talk about that one! Win on Sunday and sell on Monday. Chevrolet routinely used the track to test and validate the performance of early-generation Corvettes with that tradition continuing today. The Garcia/Taylor pairing saw its two-race win streak come to an end on a challenging day where the midday heat played havoc with the handling and track conditions.

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