Month: March 2010

Chevrolet’s Corvette Racing team will compete in nine American Le Mans Series (ALMS) races this year as a part of the GT2 class.

To give you, the fans, a better idea of what it’s like for the team, a 12-episode mini documentary has been put together for your viewing pleasure.

The first episode chronicles the team’s first full season competing in the 2009 ALMS GT2 class. The final moments of the Laguna Seca race, leading up to the Corvette C6.R crash just short of the finish line, are all captured.

Corvette Racing’s Doug Fehan, program manager, and Dan Binks, crew chief, are filmed announcing that the new Corvette C6.R will be faster in 2010 to avoid these crashes, which stripped the team of victory.

Catch all of this and more as the team prepares for the 2010 ALMS season.

Watch the episode after the jump.

The 1960 Cunningham Corvette was the first Corvette to win at Le Mans. The story of the skillful restoration of this classic Corvette will be told to fans attending the C5/C6 Bash at the National Corvette Museum on May 1. Lance Miller, son of “Corvettes at Carlisle” founder Chip Miller, plans to bring the Corvette to Bowling Green along with one of its drivers, John Fitch. [More]

Jim Talbot, of Bethlehem, looks over an Infiniti G convertible during the Lehigh Valley Auto Show held at Stabler Arena in Bethlehem.

Designed as a tribute to the Corvette’s first race at Le Mans 50 years ago, the Z06 Carbon features some parts from the range-topping ZR1 including the Brembo carbon ceramic brakes, Magnetic Ride Control suspension and a ZR1-style spoiler.

How well are sales going for the new 2010 Corvette Grand Sport? “Over half of the coupes and three-quarters of the Convertibles are being ordered as Grand Sports” said Harlan Charles, Corvette Product Marketing Manager for GM. National Corvette Museum Board Member and Corvette Assembly Plant Manager Bob Parcell said the Grand Sport has become the “most popular model of Corvette and overall Corvette sales are up this year.” As a result the Grand Sport will be featured by the National Corvette Museum as their fund raising raffles says Museum Executive Director Wendell Strode. “We thought we?d follow the trend and offer more of what customers are wanting.” [More]

In this episode, the team begins the ALMS season at the 12 Hours of Sebring. On a track known for its high speeds, changing surfaces and a total of 17 turns, the Corvette Racing team began the race weekend “living the dream.” As you may have seen, an unfortunate miscommunication brings both Corvettes to collide in pit row, ending their chances for a win to start the season. The episode features exclusive post-collision interviews from the Corvette crew chief, Dan Binks, team owner Gary Pratt and program director, Doug Fehan and a new exclusive angle of the crash not yet released.

Source:
Chevrolet’s YouTube Channel

Related:
[VIDEO] Corvette Racing Series: Episode 1
[VIDEO] Corvette Racing Launches 2010 Season Video Series

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Corvette Racing’s Program Manager speaks to Corvette owners at the corral tent at the 2010 12 Hours of Sebring. Doug talks about cascading engineering which makes the race cars and street cars better and he answers questions about the new LS5.5R engine powering the ALMS Corvette C6.R.

Related:
[VIDEO] Interview with Corvette Racing’s Doug Fehan at Sebring
[VIDEO] Interview with Corvette Racing’s Jan Magnussen at Sebring
[VIDEO] Corvette Racing: Magnussen Goes 3 Wide on Melo’s Ferrari at Sebring
[VIDEO] Corvette Racing Bruised and Battered in the 12 Hours of Sebring

 

RM Auctions is holding their Collector Cars of Fort Lauderdale auction this weekend. Over 30 Corvettes are scheduled for the auction with some of the featured lots coming from the estate of automobile collector John O’Quinn. One of these is Lot #740, a 1955 Corvette roadster featuring one of the most unique aftermarket accessories ever made for the early C1 Corvettes: A removable “bubble top” hard top. [More]

I guess this C3 Corvette watched too many commercials of Papa John’s founder delivering pizza’s in the 1971 Camaro and decided it too wanted to break into the restaurant game. The Corvette was heavily damaged in the accident, and thanks to a passerby who saw the aftermath of the crash in New Albany, Indiana, we have video of what appears to be a very painful “extraction”.

Source:
Tampa Sports Car Examiner

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