Month: July 2010

One of the most scenic road course in North America, Lime Rock Park draws impressive crowds when the American Le Mans Series rolls into town. The 1.5-mile, 10-turn circuit keeps the action flowing all race for both drivers and spectators.

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Halfway through the Corvette Racing video series, and the team is still undergoing rough obstacles that is challenging their line of work and opportunity for victory at Le Mans.

A promising day of racing began with a commemorative 50th anniversary lap celebrating Corvette’s 50^th year at Le Mans. The lap included the first ever Corvette driver and vehicle to race in Le Mans, followed by 50 other Corvettes.

Then, the 3 p.m. Le Mans race began, leaving the two Corvettes in a good position – the top two GT2 class spots by nightfall!

The morning hours, however, brought the first signs of trouble. Corvette #63’s engine had trouble, eliminating it altogether from the race.

The team was left to rely on Corvette #62, but hours later the vehicle tried to make an aggressive pass, forcing it to collide into the side barriers. Though the Corvette team was able to rebuild the entire Corvette body and chassis within 35 MINUTES — it had already been too late!

Watch this video to see how the team handled the unnerving pressure and impressive teamwork. There’s no stoppin’ this team! Watch the video after the jump.

 

A A General Motors plans to file a registration for an initial public offering during the week of August 16, just after reporting its second quarter results, according to two sources.

Check out this former 2008 Hertz rent-a-car Corvette ZHZ that has been customized to look like the 2012 Corvette Stingray Concept that appears as Sideswipe in Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen. The Corvette is listed on eBay and with 3 days left in the auction, 6 bids have run the price up to $35,200 […]

Yes folks, the Corvette Stingray Concept Speedster is at it again – only this time in Chicago!

Transformers’ Director, Michael Bay, apparently wanted to get some quality city-life backdrop scenes into the new movie, set to hit theaters July 1, 2011. What better place than Chicago?

The vehicle is seen alongside several highly equipped NASCAR-themed vehicles.

Where do you predict we’ll spot the this concept speedster next?!

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With hot rays of Kansas summer sunshine pelting him from overhead and sweat dripping from his brow, Dennis Young kneels down in front of his bright yellow 1940 Ford pickup truck Saturday parked on the south side of Paolaa s Park Square.

LAKEVILLE, Conn., July 20, 2010 – It’s been called a bull ring and a short track with hills, but perhaps Corvette Racing driver Oliver Gavin’s description of Lime Rock Park is the most accurate: “It’s like stepping into a gladiatorial arena.”

Gavin and his Corvette Racing teammates will take on the shortest circuit […]

Hot Rod Magazine has a feature coming out later this year in which they take a C4 Corvette and show you how to make it outrun a new Corvette for dirt cheap. To help promote the story, they released a teaser vid on the Corvette Forum which shows the hot rod staff literally […]

Earnhardt-Childress Racing Engines earned its first two victories in professional sports car racing last weekend when it powered the race winners in both the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series and the SCCA Trans-Am Series.

So how do you go about picking the top 5 American cars of all time? Do you choose the great classics, like the Marmon and Cadillac V-16s? Do you go back into the antique era for worthy but largely forgotten models like the Curved Dash Oldsmobile and Mercer Raceabout? Do you embrace muscle cars like the Pontiac GTO, Plymouth Road Runner and …