Simon Bertram, Author at CorvSport.com - Page 3 of 8

JoinedNovember 5, 2019

Articles237

Comments3

If it goes fast, Simon likes it. Computers, cars, rockets, it doesn't matter, as long as there is speed involved. Apart from his love of sim racing in virtual reality, Simon also loves to drive his '17 Fiesta ST through the mountain roads near his home city of Calgary, AB. Simon's penchant for big horsepower makes him partial to modern supercharged small block Corvettes and aftermarket craziness.

Simon Bertram·

Detroit Speed Produces A Track Weapon Corvette C3

Detroit Speed C3

Detroit Speed is one of those aftermarket shops that make add-ons and replacement parts for older muscle cars, including among them C2, C3, and C4 Corvettes. To make and test these parts, they often do full builds of these older cars, fitted with prototype items or actual products they want...

Simon Bertram·

Honda NSX & Corvette C8 Drivers Switch Seats

C8 VS NSX

Speed Phenom on Youtube, known for having a super-successful channel and being a once-in-a-while semi-pro racing driver, thought that it would be a good idea to see what other mid-engined sports cars feel like. In this specific episode, he switched seats with Travis, the owner of a 2020 Honda/Acura NSX...

Simon Bertram·

Hennessey Performance Unveils Their New C8 Wheels

Hennessey H10 Wheels

Hennessey Performance, for those potentially living under a rock or an off-the-grid converted nuclear silo disaster shelter (and we wouldn’t blame them with 2020 as it is!), likes to make cars go fast, look good, sound good, and pretty much be as awesome as a car can be. With this...

Simon Bertram·

Friendliest Texan Ever Picks Up His Cammed C7 Z06

Cammed C7

We’ve been featuring the 2020+ Corvette C8 a lot this past week on Corvsport, we admit. It’s an exciting car, new bits are coming out, new cars and channels are becoming popular. But sometimes you just have to go back a couple of years and reminisce about the Corvette C7....

Simon Bertram·

Fabspeed Releases Sport Cats & Valvetronic Exhaust

With the Corvette C8 now 6 months old in the wild, a lot of aftermarket parts are starting to become widely available. However, Fabspeed Motorsport decided to hold back on their newest exhaust release specifically because they wanted to make sure that it fit the personality of a Corvette. The...

Simon Bertram·

New Corvette C8 HTC Owner Shows The Engine Bay

Convertible engine bay

Ever since the new 2020 Corvette C8 hard-top convertible has been released into the wild, one of the questions people have had is how does the engine bay differ, if at all, from the coupe? Jeremy Welborn decided to answer that question on his YouTube channel. Jeremy is just like...

Simon Bertram·

Sigala Designs Drives Their Corvette C8 With No Body Panels

Skeleton C8

Sigala Designs, an aftermarket company that makes carbon fiber and replacement parts for a lot of vehicles, recently stripped their Corvette C8 of all of its body panels. This is because they are one of three manufacturers, including Pandem/Rocket Bunny and Xiegen, developing a full-on widebody kit for the Corvette...

Simon Bertram·

Corvette Executive Chief Engineer Clarifies The Move To EV Programs

Corvette C8

We reported last month that GM had shifted almost all of the Corvette engineers and designers to the autonomous and electric vehicle programs. During the Corvettes at Carlisle event this past week, as reported by CarBuzz, Corvette’s Executive Chief Engineer, Tadge Juechter, explained what that move actually meant. Many, including...

Simon Bertram·

Car & Driver Tests The 2020 C8 Against A 2020 Porsche Cayman GT4

C8 vs GT4

Let’s make no bones about it. The 2020 Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 is designed from the get-go to be an absolute track weapon. However, the 718 Cayman line in general is a much more fair comparison for the 2020 Corvette C8 with a Z51 package than a 992 911 is....

Simon Bertram·

Everyday Driver Compares a Z06 To A Z06 & Another Z06

Corvette Z06

It’s the car that every Corvette enthusiast waits for after the launch of a generation. The first sub-model, the racing-derived version of the normal car. And it wears that special badge on its front fenders with honor: Z06 This legacy started with the C5 reviving the name from a C2...

Simon Bertram·

A Corvette C7 In Canada Gets Impounded For Speeding

2014 Corvette Stingray

For those unaware, a couple of CorvSport content contributors live North of the border in Canada (and this author is one of them!). So when we say that Canadian weather in September can turn from pleasant to downright chilly in the space of a few days, we are not kidding....

Simon Bertram·

Former GM CEO Picks Up His 2020 Corvette C8 At The NCM

Dan Akerson C8 NCM

Serving from 2010 to 2014, Dan Akerson held the role of CEO of General Motors after a tumultuous decade that saw the sale of many of GM’s subsidiaries and a restructuring of corporate governance. Mr. Akerson guided GM through the post-recession years and brought it back into financial viability, before...

Simon Bertram·

There Is Already A Fully Electric Corvette Out There

Genovation GXE

There are murmurings out there across multiple forums that with the recent trademark application for “E-Ray,” the next Corvette generation, the C9, will be fully electric. However, a company has already produced a fully electric Corvette. Genovation Cars is currently finishing up prototyping and testing of what they call the...

Simon Bertram·

A Look At 2021 C8 Color & Accents Options

When GM announced the features and updates of the 2021 Corvette C8, two of the biggest things were new colors and new accents being announced. During the recent Corvettes at Carlisle virtual presentation, some of these colors and a lot of the accents were shown off. Thanks to a couple...

Simon Bertram·

Bowling Green Assembly Plant Starts Up Second Shift

Bowling Green Factory

In great news as reported by CorvetteBlogger, the Bowling Green, Kentucky Corvette assembly plant is officially going to two shifts instead of just one for 2020 Corvette C8 production. This is great news for the 400+ hourly workers that were hired in mid-2019 and completed their training early in 2020...

Simon Bertram·

Insider Info: Corvette C8 Z06 To Come With N/A V8

C8 Corvette Z06

It was only last week we posted our entire compilation of knowledge, rumors, and even a few educated guesses about the 2022 Corvette C8 Z06. Well, take the entire engine section of that article, and pretty much throw it out the window. CorvetteForum.com has received reliable information, as well as...

Simon Bertram·

How Does A Corvette C8 Stack Up Against German Rivals?

Corvette C8 Against Competitors Hockenheimring

Leave it to the Germans to conduct strict, controlled performance testing. And when you have the Hockenheim Formula 1 Circuit to yourself, why the hell not! In a video that contains no spoken German, and hence does not need to have any translation, the 2020 Corvette C8 is pitted against...

Simon Bertram·

Corvettes at Carlisle 2020 Video Shows One Of The First Delivered HTC

2020 Corvette C8 HTC at Carlisle

Jeremy Welborn is a Corvette enthusiast, first and foremost. He’s also a relatively small YouTuber that has some pretty decent videos. While driving to Corvettes at Carlisle in a borrowed 2015 Corvette C7 Z06, he mentions that he was hoping to be driving his 2020 Corvette C8 Convertible. Unfortunately, his...

Simon Bertram·

GM Shifts Corvette Engineers To Autonomous & EV Programs

The 2020 Mid-Engine Corvette in Sebring Orange.

According to CorvetteForum.com, news broke to them earlier today that GM is transferring the entire Corvette engineering team to their autonomous and electric vehicles programs, effective September 1, 2020. The first question that popped up was “What about the Corvette program’s plans for the C8?” The answer, according to GM,...

Simon Bertram·

All We Know Right Now About the 2022 Corvette C8 Z06

C8 Z06 rendering

It would be an understatement to say that the 2020 Corvette C8 is an unmitigated success. Leading in Q2 2020 sales, order lists starting to stretch to Q3 2021 already, and the Corvette C8.R winning pretty much anything it enters now. And we haven’t even reached the first sub-model yet,...

Simon Bertram·

You Can Win A Corvette C8 Z51 For A Great Cause

2020 Corvette C8

Those who have been in the Corvette scene for a long time will be familiar with the name Chip Miller. With longtime friend and business partner Bill Miller (no relation), they founded the Carlisle Events car shows, of which the biggest is the Corvettes at Carlisle event, where over 5,000...

Simon Bertram·

The Corvette Leads In Sales Segment For Q2 2020

John Hennessey Takes His Twin Turbo C8 For A Test Drive

It’s no secret that 2020 has been a challenging year for a lot of industry sectors, with the automotive industry experiencing one of the sharpest nosedives in its history. All of America’s big three have been affected, however, Chevrolet can hold its head a little higher than the others when...

Simon Bertram·

Corvette C8 Carbon Fiber Aero Kit Available From RSC Tuning

RSC Tuning C8 Aero Parts

Earlier in July, Chevrolet was forced to modify multiple Corvette C8 orders that had the High Wing Kit, the Visible Carbon Fiber Splitter, and the Visibile Carbon Fiber Side Skirts due to an unfortunate delay from one of their suppliers. This meant that no more of the three kits were...

Simon Bertram·

Quadriplegic Sam Schmidt Races Again In A Corvette C8

Arrow Modified Corvette C8 Sam Schmidt

In 2000, Indycar racer Sam Schmidt was doing a testing run at Walt Disney World Speedway when he spun out of control and crashed, severing his spinal cord between his 3rd and 4th vertebrae. He had gone from being a race-winning Indycar League driver to a quadriplegic in the space...

Simon Bertram·

Ultra Rare Corvette C1 Up For Sale… Kind Of…

Route 66 Corvette C1

Well, collectors, here is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to own a Corvette C1… kind of… You see, the Corvette C1 in question is attached to a mechanical base, and with just 10 cents, you can make it move, but only for 60 seconds. And it’s up for sale for just under...

Simon Bertram·

2020 Corvette C8 Convertibles Are Starting To Arrive At Dealerships

Rapid Blue C8 Convertible

The 2020 Corvette C8 has been out for about 5 months now, and after varying reports of “not this year” to “definitely this year,” the 2020 Corvette C8 Convertible is well and truly here. In a very quick video posted to the YouTube channel Corvette: Sales, News & Lifestyle, a...

Simon Bertram·

GM Applies To Trademark E-Ray For Upcoming Corvette C8 Hybrid

c8Corvettehybrid

While the 2020 Corvette C8 is still on its first iteration, development hasn’t slowed down, it seems, for the higher powered and special models expected down the line. In news from GM Authority, a couple of spy shots of a potential Corvette hybrid mule accompanies the fact that GM has...

Simon Bertram·

Watch & Listen To A 1968 Corvette C3 Le Mans Racer

1968 L88 Corvette C3 Le Mans

It may be a surprise to some people, but Corvettes were racing at Le Mans well before the 1998 Corvette C5.R made its legendary first appearance. In those days, when privateer teams were much more in vogue, you could buy a Corvette ready-to-race with some specific body and engine order...

Simon Bertram·

Watch & Listen: 1966 Corvette C2 Historic Hill Climb Monster Onboard

1966 Corvette C2 hill climb

It is with a bit of comedic irony that Switzerland, a country well known for its longstanding ban of any kind of racing, hosts some of the best hill climb competitions (ie racing) in the world. One of those competitions is a steep, twisting, and at times extremely narrow run...

Simon Bertram·

A 1967 Corvette C2 Drag Racing Car With A Secret Weapon

1967 Corvette C2 drag corvette

As we know, drag racing is about as American as baseball, apple pie, and hotdogs with only mustard on them (we see you, Chicago). So when a video from a couple of years back came up as a result for “drag racing corvettes,” we knew we had to share this...

Load More