How long before we get this in rfactor 2?
Photograph Courtesy Chevrolet
According to news from IMSA, General Motors is currently working on a Chevrolet Corvette C8 for IMSA’s GT3 class. This move follows the decision to phase out the GTLM class—where the C8.R ran—after this year.
The news comes from a discussion with Mark Stielow, Director of Motorsport Competition Engineering for GM Racing, who “confirmed GM is working on a GT3 version of the C8-generation Corvette.”
So we assume this means GT3-spec Corvettes for customers?
This is good news. I hope we will once again see customer Corvettes racing in road racing events around the world.
Chevy needs to figure out a way to "sell" them but they must be raced ,
Not raced and Chevy takes them back ,
Ferrari sold a Series car (I think ) where you did not really own the car and Ferrari supplied the support , maybe not that idea but something that rich guys cannot just buy them and park them .
Yes, hopefully many many cars will be sold and raced! That would be trickle-down grassroots racing I could get behind!
In reply to Red5 :
Yup, figure it's good for the collector car world (factory-built Corvette race car!) and the motorsports world (factory-built Corvette race car!).
Agreed. Let's hope they won't pull the same build and don't sell like they did with the ATS-V.R GT3 race car.
That ATS-V GT3 race car was complicated, expensive and far from stock. Hopefully The GT3 Vette will be closer to stock, like a GT3 Porsche. They need to build something that doesn't need a large, dedicated team to operate. Ford sold a bunch of the factory Mustangs race cars that way at various level of tune.
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