The Next Evolution of Corvette Racing Is Here

Ladies and Gentlemen….the 2020 C8.R Corvette Race Car

For anyone that has gone looking for them (and even those that haven’t), there has been no shortage of spy photos of the (as-yet-to-be-fomally-announced) C8 Mid-Engine Corvette.  Spy photos of the new Corvette began appearing on the internet as early as 2015, when early iterations of a mid-engine Corvette test mule began a global “watch party” throughout the Corvette community.  Since that time, countless images have surfaced, each giving the world a new, slightly improved glimpse of what most believe to be the next-generation Corvette.

However, unlike the heavily camouflaged prototypes that have surfaced over the past several years, the most compelling (by far) photographs surfaced earlier today that clearly showcase the mid-engine Corvette…only this time, it’s not just any Corvette, but rather the new C8.R Corvette race car.

While common conjecture among automotive critics agree that the C8 Corvette will mark the most significant re-imagining of the Corvette in its 65+ year history, there is no doubting that this next-generation Corvette is the evolution-and-culmination of decades worth of engineering and research performed on the race track.

Since the late 1990’s, GM and Chevrolet have supported the GT-class Corvette Racing team in conjunction with Pratt & Miller.  This past weekend, the team traveled to Road America to compete in the IMSA Continental Road Race Showcase, where the team finished second and third in class.  What wasn’t common knowledge – even among the majority of the press that was present for the race – was that Chevrolet had also packed the new, as-yet-untested C8.R Corvette Race Car with them for early testing at the famous four-mile circuit.