Archive for 'Corvette Racing'

ALMS GT1 vs. GT2: The Corvette Story

April 16th, 2008 – 8:07 pm
Tagged as: Corvette Racing

There’s more than just the Corvette Racing team in ALMS GT1 this year. Lou Gigliotti, owner and driver for LG Motorsports, also races a C6 in the GT2 series. In the video below, Lou and Doug Fehan, Program Manager for Corvette Racing, walk us through the differences between the cars.

Interesting comments [...]

Corvette aims for FIA GT1 Championship

April 15th, 2008 – 7:42 pm

In addition to racing in ALMS GT1, Corvettes will be racing in the FIA GT1 class. Phoenix Carsport Racing, a German-Dutch-Swiss team, will be campaigning two former Corvette Racing C6.R’s. Both cars were tested at Monza a couple of weeks ago, and will be testing at Nürburgring and racing at Silverstone with updated [...]

NCM-HPDE @ RA

April 15th, 2008 – 7:33 pm

Are there enough acronyms in the title for you? It stands for: National Corvette Museum High Performance Driving Event at Road America. The HPDE is quickly becoming a popular way to get instruction and practice driving your Corvette on a track. Participants will be placed in 1 of 5 groups: Beginners, for [...]

More from Sebring

March 20th, 2008 – 8:34 pm

More videos from GM’s I Got Shotgunprogram today – watch them below:
Corvette Racing 12 Hourse of Sebring – in 7 minutes:

Driver Interviews – Corvette Racing’s Olivier Beretta, Ron Fellows & Max Papis:

(side note – as a CART (ok, ex-CART) fan, I’m glad to be able to watch Max Papis drive the Corvettes. He was [...]

“I got shotgun” in a C6

March 18th, 2008 – 9:59 pm

Nice video link sent to us today from GM’s I Got Shotgun program. They filmed a hot lap in a C6 (from the “shotgun” seat, of course) driven by Jason Altzman from the American LeMans series’ Vitesse program. View the video below. Thanks for taking us around the track!

C6.R to return to ALMS GT1 in 2008

December 14th, 2007 – 1:38 pm

GM/Corvette Racing announced today that the C6.R will be returning to ALMS GT1 in 2008 for the full 12-race schedule. They will also be competing for another class win at LeMans.
Corvette Racing has won seven consecutive GT1 manufacturers and team championships and six straight drivers championships in ALMS competition. The team holds [...]

Corvette Racing Preview: Salt Lake City

May 16th, 2007 – 1:44 pm

The Corvette Racing team is taking to the track at Miller Motorsports Park in Salt Lake City. The 4.5 mile road course is the last stop for the team before making the hop over the pond for Le Mans next month (June 16th). Miller Motorsports Park is the longest road course track in [...]

ALMS Sebring Recap

March 21st, 2007 – 11:03 am

PaddockTalk has a good recap of the 12 hours of Sebring. Includes quotes from the Corvette Racing Team.
Congratulations to the team on their 1-2 class placement. The Arctic White Ron Fellows tribute car looked great. Hope to see it for the rest of the season. Not that I don’t like the [...]

Chicago Auto Show Preview: Ron Fellows Z06

February 1st, 2007 – 12:51 pm

To honor Ron Fellows’ important role in shaping Corvette Racing into the premier outfit it is, Chevy has created the Ron Fellows ALMS GT1 Champion Corvette Z06. Only 399 cars will be built, and they all get finished in Arctic White with Monterey Red and Victory Silver accent graphics on the front fenders. The red [...]

Corvette Racing alone in GT1

January 17th, 2007 – 10:29 am

We’re still waiting for an official press release, but Autoextremist said this morning that not only will Audi Sport be back to defend their LMP1 title with the R10 (press release), but Corvette Racing will be back all alone in GT1. Racing the entire ALMS schedule makes them eligible for LeMans, so that may [...]