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The Chevrolet Corvette C8.R is a grand tourer racing car built by Pratt Miller and Chevrolet for competition in endurance racing. It serves as the replacement for the Corvette C7.R, using the C8 generation Chevrolet Corvette as a base. Corvette Racing fielded the C8.R in the IMSA SportsCar Championship GT Le Mans (GTLM) class starting with the ...
The Corvette C8 was named 2020 Motor Trend Car of the Year, [77] and was also featured on 2020 Car and Driver 10Best. [78] The C8 was also named 2020 North American Car of the Year, [79] 2020 Detroit Free Press Car of the Year, [80] 2020 MotorWeek Drivers' Choice Best of the Year, [81] and Edmunds Top Rated Sports Car for 2020 [82] and 2021. [83]
The 2020 Corvette C8 was the first Corvette to have a rear mid-engine configuration, [108] GM's first since the 1984 Pontiac Fiero. The base Stingray coupe was introduced on July 18, 2019, with three launch colors, red (with the Z51 Package), white, and blue, and the convertible on October 2 at the Kennedy Space Center , joined by the C8.R race ...
The Callaway Project C15, was originally known as Corvette Z06.R GT3, a competition version of the Corvette C6 Z06 built to compete in FIA GT3 category GT racing. The cars are built at Callaway Competition's facility in Leingarten , Germany and raced in the FIA GT3 European Championship .
From the beginning of organised motor sport events, in the early 1900s, until the late 1960s, before commercial sponsorship liveries came into common use, vehicles competing in Formula One, sports car racing, touring car racing and other international auto racing competitions customarily painted their cars in standardised racing colours that indicated the nation of origin of the car or driver.
The 1957 Corvette SS racing sports car was created by a team of engineers headed by Zora Arkus-Duntov as part of an official Chevrolet race effort meant to culminate with the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Soon after its race debut at the 12 Hours of Sebring , where it retired after 23 laps, the Automobile Manufacturers Association (AMA) banned ...
The first road car to implement racing stripes was the 1965 Ford Mustang GT350. [6] From the 1960s, stripes have sometimes been applied to road cars as well as racing cars. Such cars as the Renault 8 Gordini had stripes fitted as standard. [7] They are sometimes referred to as "go-faster stripes" on road cars. [8] [9]
The Chevrolet Corvette (C7) is the seventh generation of the Corvette sports car manufactured by American automobile manufacturer Chevrolet from 2014 until 2019. The first C7 Corvettes were delivered in the third quarter of 2013. The racing variants include the C7.R, which won the GTLM 24 Hours of Le Mans.