The Corvette C5.R Makes a Brutal V-8 Noise Dan Binks is Loving ... The outfit will compete in the upcoming GT Daytona Pro category of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.

GM wanted to prove that the new-for-'97 C5 Corvette was a ... second-generation--C5-R served notice that it could handle all comers with an outright win at the Daytona 24-hour race in 2001 ...

Since the team's competitive debut in 1999 with the Corvette C5-R, Corvette Racing has earned ... in long-distance endurance racing such as Daytona and Le Mans through fewer time-consuming pit ...

1999 would mark the first year for the fully factory backed Corvette race team. After two years of development of the the new C5 race car dubbed the C5-R Corvette Racing made their debut at the ...

The Corvette C5.R debuted in the Daytona 24 Hour GT class in January, 1999 — leading much of the race before finishing second on one of the world’s biggest stages. The pressure packed moment ...

For the regular distance races in the ALMS season, Pilgrim partnered with Ron Fellows in the #3 C5-R. Franck Fréon (Daytona, Sebring, Le Mans and Petit Le Mans) Fréon first joined Corvette ...

Chevrolet announced a factory-backed Corvette endurance road-race program in 1998. The first two C5-Rs made their competition debut at the 24-hour Daytona race in 1999, and the car driven by Ron ...

Five months later, the C5-R debuted in France at ... car's development year and while Corvette Racing nearly won Le Mans, it struggled in its first run at Daytona since 2001 and then narrowly ...

The C8.R will have made its debut at the Rolex 24 at Daytona in late January. The term that is used is "clean sheet," and there hasn't been a Corvette of this origination since 1999 then a C5-R.

The new Corvette Z06 GT3.R race car made its debut over the weekend during the 2023 24 Hours of Daytona and will be offered as a turnkey solution for customer teams. It will be ready in time for ...

After that car showed real promise at Daytona Speedweeks 1955 ... The world wouldn’t see another officially sanctioned Corvette racer until the C5.R program. It’s hard to imagine that another ...