Scott Kolecki, Author at CorvSport.com

Introducing the 2024 H700 Hennesseey Corvette Stingray HTC.

Since the arrival of the eighth-generation Stingray Corvette in 2020, and with it, the arrival of Corvette’s first hard-top convertible, it has been a house divided amongst enthusiasts as to which option – coupe or convertible – is the more popular choice. Both versions of the car offer nearly identical...

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NCM Motorsports Park

Graham Rahal Performance comes to the NCM Motorsports Park!!!

We at Corvsport.com are excited to share the following press release from Graham Rahal Performance, Radical Indianapolis, and the NCM Motorsports Park. This announcement is an exciting evolution of the already incredible programming that the NCM Motorsports Park offers to its patrons. While we’re certain that more details will follow...

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NCM Motorsports Park

Experience the NCM MSP Driving Academy: Level 1

If you’ve spent any time on our website, you’ve seen our posts about the many amazing experiences we’ve participated in at the NCM Motorsports Park in Bowling Green over the past several years. This 3.2-mile racetrack, which is located “next door” (on the other side of I-65) to the National...

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Corvette History

The Corvette Story #3 – The First Sting Ray Arrives

Harley Earl retired from General Motors on December 1, 1958. He had reached GM’s then-mandatory retirement age of 65 and left GM after overseeing the final designs of the corporation’s 1959 model line-up. It came as little surprise to most within the GM Styling Department when forty-six year-old Bill Mitchell...

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Racing

The Pratt Miller Motorsports Collective

If you’re a fan of Corvettes or Corvette Racing, then the 2024 IMSA race season promises to be one for the books….and with the Rolex 24 just around the corner, there has never been a better opportunity to discovver, or re-discover, the exciting world of motorsport racing. And now, Pratt...

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2024 – C8 Corvette

The Chevy Corvette Makes “Car and Driver’s 10 Best” List

In a world where social media holds such sway over public opinion, its easy to lose sight of the “gold standards” that the automotive community has used to identify what’s great in the current marketplace. However, when a publication as respected as “Car and Driver” publishes its “10 Best” lists,...

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Racing

Corvette Racing Secures WEC Team Championship in Bahrain

As the current Corvette Racing program comes to a close, it is satisfying to know that the 2023 FIA World Endurance Champion (WEC) team finished its season on a high note as they completed an eight-hour WEC race in Bahrain. Although the team finished in a disappointing seventh place in...

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Rumors

An EV Corvette Concept Could Arrive As Early as 2024

As many of you are likely aware by now, General Motors has been rumored to be developing a series of “alternate” Corvette offerings, including sedans and SUV’s, as they look to transition the Corvette model into its own marquee. Yesterday, our friends at GM Authority shared a story that strongly...

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Corvette

2024 Corvette E-Ray Production Underway

We know that many of our readers have anxiously been awaiting the arrival of the 2024 Chevrolet Corvette E-Ray. We are happy to report that production of the latest mid-engine Corvette began on Monday night at the GM Corvette Manufacturing Plant in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The start of the manufacturing...

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News

Corvette Plant To Suspend Tours

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – The National Corvette Museum announced Wednesday that it will be suspending tours at GM’s Bowling Green Assembly Plant starting February 5th, 2024. In a statement released by the NCM today, it was explained that “Due to manufacturing advancements, tours offered by the National Corvette Museum of...

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Racing

Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports

If you are like us, then you are probably waiting anxiously to see just what the future of Corvette Racing looks like. We are happy to report that the future looks BRIGHT! Pratt Miller Motorsports (PMM) recently shared images of the latest Corvette race car that will compete in the...

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C8 Corvette E-Ray

A Look at the 2024 Corvette E-Ray

Since its introduction in July 2020, the eighth-generation Corvette has introduced the world to some of the fastest, most powerful, best handling cars in the seventy-plus year history of the brand. Where the stock mid-engine Stingray crushed its predecessors in terms of acceleration and handling straight out the gate, the...

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NCM Motorsports Park

NCM Motorsports Park Offers Black Friday C8 Experience!

Located just an hour north of Nashville, Tennessee, the beautiful rolling hills and country backroads of Bowling Green, Kentucky serve as home to three amazing Corvette venues – GM’s Corvette Manufacturing Plant, the National Corvette Museum and, perhaps our favorite, the NCM Motorsports Park. While the Museum is a “mecca”...

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Corvette History

The Corvette Story #2 – The Corvette SS Goes Racing

Despite its being a major attraction for automotive consumers across the United States, General Motors made the decision to discontinue their annual Motorama show after the 1956 season. The budgets previously allocated for these extravaganzas were instead funneled into Chevrolet’s Research Division with the intent of developing the Corvette into...

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Concepts & Prototypes

New DeLorean Company Looks To Build a Corvette-Based Sports Car

There’s a long, rich history between the Chevrolet Corvette and the DeLorean Motor Company (DMC), or at least between GM and John Z. DeLorean. DeLorean served as the head of Chevrolet in the early 1970s. Working alongside such engineering legends as Zora Arkus-Duntov, he helped lay some of the groundwork...

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Racing

DXDT Racing Will Run Two Z06 GT3.R Corvettes in 2024!

In a story originally published by our friends at sportscar365.com, it was announced that DXDT Racing will utilize Chevrolet’s latest Z06 GT3.R Corvette race car to the stable for the 2024 Fanatec GT World Challenge America Powered by AWS. DXDT Racing owner David Askew announced on Thursday that his North...

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NCM Motorsports Park

NCM MSP Hosts Inaugural Mobil 1 Women’s HPDI Event

If you’ve been involved with motorsports at any level in the past few years, you’ve noticed that there has been an increase in female drivers hitting the tracks! The Women In Motorsports North America (WIMNA) organization has spearheaded this effort across the North America, and the Corvette community, including both...

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C8 Corvette C8.R

RACING: Can Corvette Racing Secure One Last Championship?

For anyone who follows the Corvette Racing program, it is well known that the 2023 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season will be the last year that a factory-backed Corvette will participate in the series. This certainty has left millions of Corvette Racing fans clamoring for one, final championship as the...

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Corvette

The Corvette Story #1 – HJE’s “Sporty Car”

Harley J. Earl may be remembered as one of the greatest automotive stylists of all time. His many contributions to the automotive industry include the creation of clay modelling, the advancement of General Motors most celebrated cars throughout the 1930s, 40s and 50s, and most significant – the creation of...

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NCM Motorsports Park

HPDE at the NCM Motorsports Park

Have you ever dreamed of mastering the skills needed to drive on a racetrack? Have you ever wondered what it might be like to push your car to its limits, or to YOURS? If you’ve answered YES to either of these questions, the NCM Motorsports Park in Bowling Green, Kentucky...

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NCM Motorsports Park

Introducing the NCM MSP’s Z06 Fast Pack Experience!

On Wednesday, August 23rd, 2023, I attended an event that transformed my understanding and appreciation of the all-new, mid-engine Z06 Corvette platform forever. I traveled to Bowling Green, Kentucky to participate in the NCM Motorsports Park’s “Z06 Fast Pack” Experience, and let me tell you, it was an experience I...

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Racing

The Future of Corvette Racing Is Strong With the Z06 GT3.R

A NEW ERA OF CORVETTE RACING WILL BEGIN IN 2024 It came as a bit of a shock to Corvette enthusiasts everywhere when GM announced that Chevrolet was discontinuing its involvement with the Corvette Racing program. For the past twenty five years, Corvette Racing, under the combined leadership of Chevrolet...

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C6 Corvette

Tom Peters Discusses Development of the C6 Corvette

Since its inception in 2010, Corvsport.com has always strived to provide its readers with the most in-depth knowledge of the Corvette in all its iterations. We’ve strived to be the “ultimate database” for America’s Sports Car, and we work tirelessly to bring you new information about every model year –...

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NCM Motorsports Park

Drive a Corvette at the NCM Motorsports Park!

When it comes to driving any modern Corvette, there are few experiences more thrilling than putting one of these amazing machines thru its paces on a racetrack. Since the introduction of the fourth-generation Corvette in 1984, Chevrolet has continuously “raised the bar” on America’s Sports Car in terms of handling,...

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News

Corvette Racing Dominates the Weekend at Mosport and Monza!

By now, we’ve all heard that Corvette Racing, at least the factory-backed team we’ve come to know and love over the last twenty-plus years, is hanging it up at the end of this season. While we’re all anxious to learn what comes next for the incredibly competitive race teams, we...

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Corvette Culture

Collectible Corvettes at Barrett-Jackson Las Vegas

For roughly the last quarter century, there has been a significant increase in the number of indviduals (and groups) who have made Corvette collecting a “national passtime.” There are the big names, like Rick Hendrick or Ken Lingenfelter, whose collections rival (and exceed) those of the National Corvette Museum in...

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Gift Ideas

LEGO Takes On the the 1961 Corvette!

Over the past several decades, the Lego company has transformed countless marquees into highly-detailed, buildable, plastic brick models for hobbiests of all ages and skill levels. From Harry Potter’s castle to Han Solo’s Millenium Falcon, the Lego models has taken on just about every pop icon imaginable. The same is...

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Corvette

An American Love Affair: 70 Years of Corvette

For the past seventy years, the Corvette has been celebrated time and again as “America’s Sports Car” by enthusiasts across the United States and around the globe. Since its introduction in 1953, this iconic sports car has fueled the passsions and the imaginations of countless millions, enticing many to pursue...

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Corvette

FOR SALE: A 1958 Corvette Fiberfab Centurion

Every now and again, we “stumble” upon a unique entrant in the world of Corvette customizations that rises above the rest. Today, we’re pleased to introduce you to the 1958 Chevrolet Corvette Fiberfab Centurion. This car, which was inspired by Bill Mitchell’s 1959 XP-87 Stingray prototype, may be one of...

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Corvette

Factory Backed Corvette Racing Program Calls It Quits

GM discontinues full factory-backed Corvette Racing team beginning in 2024 to instead focus on customer teams. If you’ve been a fan of the factory-backed Chevrolet/Pratt & Miller Corvette Racing Program of the past twenty-plus years, we’ve got some difficult news to share with you. In a story originally published by...

The Road to the Hybrid Corvette Started With the C4

The Corvette Was Not Born a Sports Car

How Callaway’s Sledgehammer Hit 254 MPH and Drove Home

Hennessey Gives C8 Corvette HTC 708HP and Active Exhaust

Graham Rahal Performance comes to the NCM Motorsports Park!!!

Experience the NCM MSP Driving Academy: Level 1

The Corvette Story #3 – The First Sting Ray Arrives

The Pratt Miller Motorsports Collective

The Chevy Corvette Makes “Car and Driver’s 10 Best” List

Corvette Racing Secures WEC Team Championship in Bahrain

An EV Corvette Concept Could Arrive As Early as 2024

2024 Corvette E-Ray Production Underway

Corvette Plant To Suspend Tours

Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports

A Look at the 2024 Corvette E-Ray

NCM Motorsports Park Offers Black Friday C8 Experience!

The Corvette Story #2 – The Corvette SS Goes Racing

New DeLorean Company Looks To Build a Corvette-Based Sports Car

DXDT Racing Will Run Two Z06 GT3.R Corvettes in 2024!

NCM MSP Hosts Inaugural Mobil 1 Women’s HPDI Event

RACING: Can Corvette Racing Secure One Last Championship?

The Corvette Story #1 – HJE’s “Sporty Car”

HPDE at the NCM Motorsports Park

Introducing the NCM MSP’s Z06 Fast Pack Experience!

The Future of Corvette Racing Is Strong With the Z06 GT3.R

Tom Peters Discusses Development of the C6 Corvette

Drive a Corvette at the NCM Motorsports Park!

Corvette Racing Dominates the Weekend at Mosport and Monza!

Collectible Corvettes at Barrett-Jackson Las Vegas

LEGO Takes On the the 1961 Corvette!

An American Love Affair: 70 Years of Corvette

FOR SALE: A 1958 Corvette Fiberfab Centurion

Factory Backed Corvette Racing Program Calls It Quits

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