Chevrolet solely in October unveiled the brand new 2023 Corvette Z06 based mostly on the eighth technology of America’s sports activities automobile—and now the Bowtie model has unveiled a brand new GT3-spec model to be supplied as a buyer race automobile.
Sure, a brand new Corvette Z06 GT3.R race automobile shall be supplied as a turnkey resolution for buyer groups. Will probably be prepared in time for the 2024 motorsport season, and shall be eligible for a number of competitions (each dash and endurance) the place it should compete in opposition to different race automobiles based mostly on, for instance, the Aston Martin Vantage and Porsche 911.
It is not the primary time we have seen a Corvette-based GT3 buyer race automobile. Germany’s Callaway Competitors, the European distributor for U.S.-based Corvette tuner Callaway, has supplied GT3 buyer race automobiles spanning multiple generations of the Corvette.
2023 Chevrolet Corvette Z06
The brand new C8-based Corvette Z06 GT3.R race automobile has been developed by Chevy itself, having benefited from classes discovered from the extra hardcore Corvette C8.R race automobile (it basically bridges the hole between the C8.R and road-going Z06). In response to Chevy, the Z06 GT3.R and road-going Z06 share a chassis and aerodynamic options, and the LT6 5.5-liter V-8 is actually the identical unit for each automobiles, requiring simply minor modifications for racing.
Additional particulars together with pricing and assist packages shall be introduced at a later date.
Coinciding with the reveal of the Z06 GT3.R, Chevy has introduced that its C8.R racing program shall be expanded in 2022 to cowl each the IMSA SportsCar Championship and FIA World Endurance Championship for the primary time.
No. 3 Corvette Racing Chevrolet Corvette C8.R GTLM on the 2021 24 Hours of Daytona
Within the IMSA competitors, the C8.R shall be entered within the new GTD Professional class which replaces the present GTLM class. Underneath the GTD Professional guidelines, the automobile will run some barely revised aerodynamics and generate barely much less energy. There may also be obligatory driver aids like ABS.
As for the WEC, the C8.R has been a daily on the spotlight occasion, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, competing within the GTE Professional class. Now it should contend the complete season.
Chevy, by way of its Corvette Racing squad, will discipline a single C8.R in every competitors, and two automobiles within the all-important Le Mans race.
