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Chevrolet Just Killed the Corvette Racing Program
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Over the past two decades plus, factory Corvette activities have brought many victories to the automaker. It has seen its fair share of wins in both IMSA Sportscar Championship races and FIA World Endurance championships. But with the coming Z06 GT3.R in 2024, Chevrolet wants to pass the torch.
As Chevrolet would be up against private Corvette competition teams, it didn’t make sense to compete with your own customers. So the factory efforts will end. “As we moved into the GT3 platform, we wanted to be able to be more customer-based,” GM Motorsport competition engineering director Mark Stielow told Sportscar 365. “There was a lot of internal debate inside GM and us about whether we’d want our customers racing against a factory.”
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