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The sports car racing season begins this weekend in Central Florida as Corvette Racing takes on the best in the American Le Mans Series at the 60th Annual Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring fueled by Fresh from Florida.
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Meanwhile, van Overbeek begins his 15th sports car racing season and second with co-driver Ed Brown in the No. 02 Tequila Patrón HPD.
Not exact matches
Last year Ferrari decided to opt out of sports - car racing, after a multitude of very successful seasons, and concentrate on Grand Prix racing instead.
Tagliani has been competing in Grand - Am since his departure from Barracuda Racing in early August and the sport's relatively short off - season could mean that he remains in sports cars next season, with the newly merged United Sports Car Champiosports cars next season, with the newly merged United Sports Car ChampioSports Car Championship.
Which is why when it was announced last month that he would not be returning to Earnhardt - Ganassi Racing next season, it was logical to think Montoya would either return to open - wheel racing or compete in sports cars full -Racing next season, it was logical to think Montoya would either return to open - wheel racing or compete in sports cars full -racing or compete in sports cars full - time.
The sport got its first look at the new restart rule during the second race of the opening round of the season at Hockenheim after an incident on the first lap brought out the safety car... and it made for an epic run down to the first corner.
In Pom's Prince Henry, Vauxhall historian Nic Portway recounts the history of this important Edwardian sports car, precursor of the famous 30 - 98, and tells us why Pom's own car is such a joy to drive / Matthew Bell travels to North Yorkshire to meet the seasoned historic racer who has owned and competed in an enviable selection of sports and racing cars over the past 50 years for this month's Auto - biography: Neil Corner / Although 1.7 million were produced in its 10 - year lifetime, the Chevrolet Corvair is sometimes labelled a loser.
The car sports the famous red, white, and blue BRE livery and is actually, but it's more than just a looker: Nissan built the car to current SCCA T2 regulations, and will field the car in several races during the remainder of this season.
Launched at the Geneva Motor Show earlier this year, AMR amplifies and accentuates the sporting prowess of the British marque's road cars, by taking inspiration or direct influence from Aston Martin Racing's participation in the FIA World Endurance Championship; a series with which the marque tasted world championship success with factory drivers Nicki Thiim and Marco Sørensen just last season.
It is the only team in major North American sports car racing to win 100 races around the world and has won at least once at every track on this year's IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season.
As with the legendary racing sports car from the 1952 season, the vehicle featured consistent lightweight design throughout and a spaceframe that supported the engine, transmission and axles and left no room for conventional doors.
MONTEREY, Calif. — Corvette Racing ended its final full season in the GT1 class of the American Le Mans Series with Oliver Gavin and Olivier Beretta claiming victory in the season - ending Monterey Sports Car Championships at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.
The Monterey Sports Car Championships, the season finale of the 10 - race American Le Mans Series, is scheduled to start at 2:45 p.m. PDT (5:45 p.m. EDT) on Saturday, Oct. 21.
Corvette Racing's next event is the season - ending Monterey Sports Car Championships at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca on Saturday, Oct. 21.
Familiar Names to Make Up Corvette Racing North American Endurance Driving Roster Fässler, Rockenfeller to support team's long - distance program in 2018 Team has three Rolex 24 and 11 Sebring victories Duo a part of three victories for Corvette Racing since start of 2016 Corvette Racing set to embark on 20th season of competition DETROIT (Dec. 21, 2017)-- Corvette Racing is bringing back two well - known, championship - winning drivers for North America's biggest events in endurance sports car.
Beretta Takes Lead on Late - Race Restart, Notches Record 40th Career ALMS Win MONTEREY, Calif. — Corvette Racing ended its final full season in the GT1 class of the American Le Mans Series with Oliver Gavin and Olivier Beretta claiming victory in the season - ending Monterey Sports Car Championships at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.
Corvette Racing Notebook for the Monterey Sports Car Championships, Oct. 13 - 15 MONTEREY, Calif. — While there are few certainties in motorsports, the math says that two of Corvette Racing's four full - season drivers will be crowned as GT1 champions at the conclusion of the Monterey Sports Car Championships at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca on Oct. 15.
The new racing Corvette showed promise with impressive speed and economy ahead of its full - season campaign in North America's new sports car racing...
Fellows Named Most Popular Driver, Gongla Wins GT1 Crew Chief of the Year Award MONTEREY, Calif. — The checkered flag at the conclusion of the Monterey Sports Car Championships at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca on Oct. 21 marked the end of the 2007 American Le Mans Series season, but Chevrolet's factory road racing team kept on winning.
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MONTEREY, Calif. — While there are few certainties in motorsports, the math says that two of Corvette Racing's four full - season drivers will be crowned as GT1 champions at the conclusion of the Monterey Sports Car Championships at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca on Oct. 15.
The new racing Corvette showed promise with impressive speed and economy ahead of its full - season campaign in North America's new sports car racing championship.
This year's season - opening round of the 10 - race American Le Mans Series presents formidable challenges for Chevrolet's championship - winning sports car team.
The Pirelli World Challenge is in its 26th season and has grown to include seven classes of sprint - format sports car competition, with two rounds of racing almost every event weekend.
Corvette Racing's next event is the season - ending Monterey Sports Car Championships at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca on Saturday, Oct. 15, starting at 3:15 p.m. PDT.
Corvette Racing's speedy Spaniard raced there twice in the GRAND - AM Rolex Sports car Series» Daytona Prototype class, and he parlayed that experience into the fastest GT race lap in the ALMS» debut last season — 1:47.389 (109.620 mph).
Known as being one of Britain's most successful international sports car drivers, Olly is gearing up for an 11th consecutive season with the hugely successful Corvette Racing team.
Corvette Racing will compete in the GT2 category of the American Le Mans Series for the remainder of the 2009 season, starting at the series» sixth round at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course on August 8.
The race was also the opening round of the 2012 Rolex Sports Car Series season.
Introduced for the 2013 racing season as Volkswagen's first WRC - spec factory car since the 1990 Golf Rally G60, the Polo R WRC went on to dominate the sport by winning three back - to - back World Rally Championships through 2015.
«Just like our full - season lineup, Jordan and Marcel have proven themselves repeatedly on the biggest stages in sports car racing.
And at the center of it all is the championship - winning Optima race car, sporting a new look for the 2015 season.
Four - Hour Monterey Sports Car Championships Is Final Test for New Production - Based GT2 Corvettes MONTEREY, Calif. — While most teams in the American Le Mans Series are looking to Saturday's Monterey Sports Car Championships at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca as the end to a long season, Corvette Racing will go to the scenic California circuit to wrap up its test and development program for the GT2 version of the Compuware Corvette C6.R race cCar Championships Is Final Test for New Production - Based GT2 Corvettes MONTEREY, Calif. — While most teams in the American Le Mans Series are looking to Saturday's Monterey Sports Car Championships at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca as the end to a long season, Corvette Racing will go to the scenic California circuit to wrap up its test and development program for the GT2 version of the Compuware Corvette C6.R race cCar Championships at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca as the end to a long season, Corvette Racing will go to the scenic California circuit to wrap up its test and development program for the GT2 version of the Compuware Corvette C6.R race carcar.
Corvette Racing Scores Fifth Podium Finish in Five Races with GT2 Corvette C6.R MONTEREY, Calif. — Corvette Racing teammates Jan Magnussen and Johnny O'Connell finished as runners - up in the season - ending Monterey Sports Car Championships at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.
Corvette C6.Rs Qualify First and Third for ALMS Season Finale at Laguna Seca MONTEREY, Calif. — Corvette Racing's development curve for the new - generation GT2 Corvette C6.R continued its upward trajectory today when Jan Magnussen won the pole for Saturday's Monterey Sports Car Championships at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.
Saturday's Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta is the final race of the 2015 TUDOR United Sports Car Championship season and the GTLM Drivers Championship title won't be determined until the checkered flags waves following 10 hours of racing.
Corvette Racing's next event is the season - ending Monterey Sports Car Championships at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, Calif..
Bacarella, competing in his first full - time season in sports car racing, is eager to race on the short and challenging Lime Rock Park circuit.
Next season, TRG - Aston Martin Racing North America, LLC takes on a full slate within the Tudor United SportsCar Championship series, Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge, participation in the Pirelli World Challenge and the launch of a one - make series — the Aston Martin GT4 Challenge of North America.
DETROIT (Jan. 19, 2018)-- It's time for Corvette Racing's return to the biggest stage in North American sports car racing as it kicks off its 20th season of competRacing's return to the biggest stage in North American sports car racing as it kicks off its 20th season of competracing as it kicks off its 20th season of competition.
Detroit — Corvette Racing looks to close its season of sports car racing in the same fashion as it started — with a viRacing looks to close its season of sports car racing in the same fashion as it started — with a viracing in the same fashion as it started — with a victory.
The 2012 Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge was the twelfth season of the Grand American Road Racing Association's support series.
While having been a fixture on the North American sports car racing scene for over two decades, the team had entered just three races with a Porsche 911 GT3 R this season prior to its return at Lime Rock with an Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 with drivers James Davison and Brandon Davis.
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Headlining in his first ever Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge race, team newcomer and car owner Jorgensen, will come after a strong club racing season featuring two class championships and over 20 podium finishes, not to mention competing in multiple Touring Car races during the 2017 Pirelli World Challenge seasCar Challenge race, team newcomer and car owner Jorgensen, will come after a strong club racing season featuring two class championships and over 20 podium finishes, not to mention competing in multiple Touring Car races during the 2017 Pirelli World Challenge seascar owner Jorgensen, will come after a strong club racing season featuring two class championships and over 20 podium finishes, not to mention competing in multiple Touring Car races during the 2017 Pirelli World Challenge seasCar races during the 2017 Pirelli World Challenge season.
DETROIT — With victories in two of sports car racing's biggest events already in 2015, Corvette Racing turns its focus across the Atlantic Ocean for the focal point of the sracing's biggest events already in 2015, Corvette Racing turns its focus across the Atlantic Ocean for the focal point of the sRacing turns its focus across the Atlantic Ocean for the focal point of the season.
SPECS 2,687 cc 210hp Air - cooled flat 6 cylinder engine Type 915/08 manual gearbox Under 1,700 post-restoration kilometers Bosch mechanical fuel injection 5 - speed manual gearbox in rear transaxle Fully adjustable four - wheel independent suspension Four - wheel hydraulic disc brakes Wheelbase: 89.3» THE 911RS 2.7 Porsche's legendary 917 was no longer eligible to compete in World Sports Car Championship racing after the 1972 racing season, and instead of creating an all - new car from scratch, the Zuffenhausen automaker decided to tackle the new European GT Championship insteCar Championship racing after the 1972 racing season, and instead of creating an all - new car from scratch, the Zuffenhausen automaker decided to tackle the new European GT Championship instecar from scratch, the Zuffenhausen automaker decided to tackle the new European GT Championship instead.
DETROIT (Sept. 29, 2015)-- Corvette Racing looks to close its season of sports car racing in the same fashion as it started — with a viRacing looks to close its season of sports car racing in the same fashion as it started — with a viracing in the same fashion as it started — with a victory.
With the American Le Mans Series remaining as his main focus for the forthcoming season, he has been confirmed as one of Spirit of Daytona Racing's drivers for the endurance events within the 2012 Rolex Sports Car Series: the Rolex 24 at Daytona, the Sahlens Six Hours of the Glen at Watkins Glen and the Indianapolis 3 Hour race.
As well as looking forward to driving with the GM's Corvette Racing team in the 2011 ALMS, the endurance specialist will be lining up in the GRAND - AM Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16 for Banner Racing, beginning with the season - opening Rolex 24 At Daytona on January 29 - 30.