CORVETTE RACING
Corvette Racing:
The News. The Results. The History
The latest from Corvette Racing in IMSA and the FIA World Endurance Championship, where the Z06 GT3.R races and the decades behind it: This page has a news feed, the stories, the results and history, and every race car.
The Basics
What This Is: The site’s racing section: race reports and news, feature stories, the race-car guides and the record, by generation and by race
Today: The Corvette Z06 GT3.R, built by Pratt Miller and raced by customer teams in IMSA GTD Pro and GTD (Pratt Miller Motorsports, AWA, DXDT) and in the FIA WEC’s LMGT3 class (TF Sport), after the factory C8.R program of 2020–23
Le Mans: Nine class wins: 1960 (Cunningham’s C1), 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2015 (the factory C5-R, C6.R and C7.R) and 2025 (TF Sport’s Z06 GT3.R in LMGT3)
The Factory Era: Corvette Racing, 1999–2023: the C5-R, C6.R, C7.R and C8.R, Pratt & Miller, more than 100 wins in the American Le Mans Series and IMSA, and championships in every car
Before That: Sebring 1956 and the SR-2s, the 1957 Corvette SS, the 1960 Le Mans class win, the 1963 Grand Sports, the L88s of 1967–69, Greenwood, the 1988–89 Corvette Challenge, the GTP cars, the showroom-stock C4s
Related Research: The race-car guides, the generation hubs’ racing tables, the special-model guides, the videos
The Overview
The Corvette has raced for as long as it has been a sports car, which is to say since Zora Arkus-Duntov took a 1956 to Daytona Beach and John Fitch’s team took three to Sebring that March. For forty years after that it raced privately, with the factory’s quiet help and occasional outright denial: the SR-2s and the SS of 1957, Briggs Cunningham’s Le Mans class win in 1960, the five Grand Sports Duntov built before GM shut the program, the L88s that won their class at Sebring, Daytona and Le Mans, John Greenwood’s wide-body C3s, the C4 Corvette Challenge series of 1988–89 and the GTP prototypes that carried the name without the car.
From 1999 Chevrolet raced under its own name. Corvette Racing, run by Pratt & Miller, took the C5-R, C6.R, C7.R and C8.R to eight class wins at Le Mans, more than a hundred wins in the American Le Mans Series and IMSA, and championships in every car it built; the C8.R was the first mid-engine Corvette to race and won its class in its first season. In 2024 the factory stepped back and Chevrolet handed the program to customers, with the Z06 GT3.R built by Pratt Miller and run by Pratt Miller Motorsports, AWA and DXDT in IMSA and by TF Sport in the WEC, which took the ninth Le Mans class win in 2025.
This page is the racing section’s front door: the news feed from the current season, the featured stories and the history, the record by generation and by race, and every race car with its guide. The generation hubs carry each era’s racing table and the race cars have guides of their own.
Seventy Years of Corvette Racing
Six eras, each with its cars, its drivers and its results, and each covered in depth on the generation hubs and the race-car guides.
Duntov, Fitch and the SS, 1956–57
The Corvette’s racing began as a sales argument. After the 1955 V-8 saved the car, Duntov took a modified 1956 to Daytona Beach for a 150-mph flying mile, and John Fitch ran three at Sebring, where one finished ninth overall and the class win became the “Real McCoy” advertisement. The SR-2s of 1956–57 and the magnesium-bodied 1957 Corvette SS, which Fitch and Piero Taruffi raced at Sebring before the AMA ban on factory racing ended it, were the first purpose-built Corvette racers; the SS sold for $7.7 million in 2025.
Cunningham, the Grand Sports and the L88s, 1960–69
Briggs Cunningham’s three 1960 Corvettes at Le Mans gave the car its first class win there, with Bob Grossman and John Fitch eighth overall. Duntov’s Grand Sport, a lightweight Sting Ray built to take on the Cobra, was stopped by GM at five cars; they raced at Nassau in 1963 and privately for years after, and Grand Sport 003 sold for $18.7 million in 2026. The 1967–69 L88s, built for racing and rated at 430 to keep them off the street, won their class at Sebring and Daytona and ran at Le Mans in 1967 and 1968, the latter the “Mulsanne Monster” in the site’s feature.
Greenwood and the privateers, 1970–83
The 1970s belonged to John Greenwood’s wide-body C3s, the fastest cars in IMSA GT at Sebring and Daytona, and to the SCCA Trans-Am and IMSA privateers who kept the Corvette in front of crowds through the emissions years. Chevrolet stayed officially absent.
The C4 era: showroom stock, the Challenge and the GTP cars, 1984–96
The C4 won every SCCA Showroom Stock race for three seasons (1985–87) until the Porsches had it banned, which produced the 1988–89 Corvette Challenge, a one-make series of identically prepared cars whose survivors are collected today. The Corvette GTP prototypes of 1984–89 (Lola chassis, turbocharged V-6s) wore the name in IMSA and won twice in 1986, and the ZR-1 set a 24-hour speed record at Fort Stockton in 1990. The C4 era is the one the site’s Corvette Challenge features cover.
The factory era: C5-R to C8.R, 1999–2023
Corvette Racing debuted the C5-R at Daytona in 1999 and won Le Mans in 2001, 2002 and 2004; the C6.R won in 2006, 2009 and 2011 and the GT1 and GT2 championships; the C7.R won Le Mans in 2015 and the IMSA titles; the C8.R, the first mid-engine Corvette racer, won the IMSA GTLM championship in its first season (2020), again in 2021 and the GTD Pro title in 2022, and raced at Le Mans through 2023. Pratt & Miller built and ran every one from Michigan, with Oliver Gavin, Jan Magnussen, Antonio Garcia, Tommy Milner, Jordan Taylor, Olivier Beretta and Ron Fellows among the drivers; the site’s NCM C5-R feature tells the Earnhardt story.
The customer era: the Z06 GT3.R, 2024 on
With the GT3 rules the factory program ended and Chevrolet built a car customers could buy: the Z06 GT3.R, derived from the C8 Z06 and its flat-plane LT6, run by Pratt Miller Motorsports, AWA and DXDT in IMSA and by TF Sport in the World Endurance Championship. It won at Detroit in 2025, the first Corvette win there since 2007, won its class at Le Mans in 2025 with TF Sport and took the 2026 IMSA manufacturers’ championship; the race reports in the feed below follow every round. The ZR1X’s 2026 Pikes Peak production-car record is the road car’s contribution.
MORE: THE CORVETTE’S RACING LEGACY / EVERY CORVETTE RACE CAR / SEBRING 1956 / THE C5-R AND THE EARNHARDTS
Corvette Racing by Generation
The Corvette has raced since 1956, privately for the first forty years and with Chevrolet’s name on the car since the C5-R of 1999. Each generation’s hub carries its racing section with the cars, the results and the race-car guides; this is the short version.
Since 1999 Corvette Racing has won Le Mans nine times in class, the 24 Hours of Daytona outright in 2001 and in class repeatedly, Sebring, and championships in the ALMS, IMSA, the WEC and the ELMS; since 2024 the customer Z06 GT3.R has put more Corvettes on more grids than ever before.
MORE: THE CORVETTE’S RACING LEGACY / THE RACE CARS / CORVETTE RACING NEWS
| GENERATION | THE CARS | THE HIGHLIGHTS |
|---|---|---|
| C1 Corvette | SR-2, Corvette SS, Cunningham’s 1960 Le Mans cars | Sebring 1956 and 1957; the first Le Mans class win, 1960; Duntov’s Pikes Peak and Daytona records |
| C2 Corvette | Z06 tankers, the five Grand Sports, Penske’s and Guldstrand’s L88s | Nassau 1963; Sebring and Daytona class wins; the L88 at Le Mans 1967 |
| C3 Corvette | Owens-Corning and Greenwood L88s, the Greenwood wide-bodies | SCCA A-Production titles 1968–71; Sebring GT 1971; 215 mph on the Mulsanne, 1976; the 1975 Trans-Am title |
| C4 Corvette | Corvette GTP, the Corvette Challenge cars, Callaway’s Le Mans Corvettes | Showroom Stock domination 1985–87; the 1988–89 Challenge series; the 1990 ZR-1 records; Callaway 2nd in GT2 at Le Mans 1995 |
| C5 Corvette | Corvette C5-R, Corvette Racing from 1999 | Daytona overall 2001; Le Mans GTS 2001, 2002, 2004; four ALMS titles |
| C6 Corvette | C6.R GT1 and GT2 | Le Mans 2005, 2006, 2009 and 2011; ALMS GT1 2005–08; ALMS GT 2012–13 |
| C7 Corvette | C7.R | The 2015 Daytona–Sebring–Le Mans sweep; IMSA GTLM titles 2016–18 |
| C8 Corvette | C8.R, the customer Z06 GT3.R | IMSA GTLM 2020–21; Le Mans and the WEC 2023; ELMS 2025; Le Mans LMGT3 2026; IMSA manufacturers’ title 2026 |
The Latest From Corvette Racing
Race reports, results and news from IMSA, the WEC and everywhere else a Corvette races, newest first.
Featured Racing Stories
The long reads: the Grand Sports, the L88 at Le Mans, the Corvette Challenge, the C5-R and the people who raced them.
Corvettes by Race
Every post from the races that matter most, by event.
The 24 Hours of Le Mans — nine class wins, 1960 to 2025
The Indianapolis 500 — the Corvette as the pace car, 1978 to today
The 12 Hours of Sebring — where it started, 1956
Petit Le Mans — the IMSA season finale at Road Atlanta
The Rolex 24 at Daytona — the C5-R’s debut and the C8.R’s first win
IMSA GT Le Mans — the factory class, 2014–21
VIR — the Z06 GT3.R’s win there
Every Corvette Race Car
The guides to the cars themselves, from the SR-2 and the SS to the Z06 GT3.R.
MORE: THE RACE-CAR INDEX
C1 Corvette Racing, 1953–1962
Daytona Beach and Sebring in 1956, the SR-2s, the 1957 Corvette SS and Cunningham’s 1960 Le Mans class win: the Corvette became a racing car in its first decade, mostly in spite of GM. The table is the C1 hub’s record; the race-car guides cover the SR-2, the SS and the Cunningham cars.
MORE: THE C1 HUB / C1 RACE CARS
| YEAR | CAR | EVENT | RESULT |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | 1956 Corvette, Duntov | Daytona Beach Speed Weeks, January | 150.583 mph flying mile in the production class |
| 1956 | Fitch team 1956 Corvettes | Sebring 12 Hours, March | Class win; Fitch / Hansgen 9th overall; “The Real McCoy” ad |
| 1956–57 | Corvette SR-2 | SCCA, Daytona, Sebring | The first factory-built Corvette racers; one ran 152.8 mph at Daytona in 1957 |
| 1957 | Corvette SS (XP-64) | Sebring 12 Hours | Retired after 23 laps; the mule became Mitchell’s Sting Ray racer |
| 1957 | 1957 Corvette, Dick Thompson | SCCA B-Production | National champion |
| 1958–59 | “Purple People Eater,” Jim Jeffords | SCCA B-Production | National champion both years |
| 1960 | Cunningham Corvettes (3) | 24 Hours of Le Mans | No. 3 Fitch / Grossman wins the GT class, 8th overall; first Corvette to finish Le Mans |
| 1960 | Sting Ray racer, Dick Thompson | SCCA C-Modified | National champion; the C2’s preview |
| 1961–62 | Gulf Oil Corvette | SCCA, Sebring | Dick Thompson wins the 1962 SCCA A-Production title |
C1 Corvette Race Cars
The guides to the C1 era’s race cars and the posts about them.
C2 Corvette Racing, 1963–1967
The Z06 tankers of 1963, the five Grand Sports, Penske’s and Guldstrand’s L88s, the class wins at Sebring and Daytona and the L88 at Le Mans in 1967: the Sting Ray years are the most storied in Corvette racing, and the most valuable cars came from them.
MORE: THE C2 HUB / C2 RACE CARS
| YEAR | CAR | EVENT | RESULT |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Sting Ray racer (XP-87) | SCCA C-Modified, Dick Thompson | National champion; the production car’s preview |
| 1962 | 1963 Z06 coupes | Riverside, October 13, Mickey Thompson team | Doug Hooper wins the production race on the Sting Ray’s first weekend |
| 1963 | Grand Sport (5 built) | Nassau Speed Week, December, Mecom Racing | Grand Sports outrun the Cobras; the program is killed at GM |
| 1964 | Grand Sport coupes and roadsters | Sebring 12 Hours, Daytona, SCCA | Raced privately by Penske, Hall, Foyt, Johnson and others |
| 1966 | Penske L88 coupe (COPO) | Daytona 24 Hours; Sebring 12 Hours | 1st in GT at both; 11th and 9th overall |
| 1967 | Sunray DX L88 | Sebring 12 Hours | The production L88’s debut; 1st in class at Daytona 1968 |
| 1967 | Dana Chevrolet L88 coupe | 24 Hours of Le Mans | 171.5 mph on the Mulsanne; retired in the 13th hour; the only mid-year to race at Le Mans |
C2 Corvette Race Cars
The guides to the C2 era’s race cars and the posts about them.
C3 Corvette Racing, 1968–1982
The L88s of 1968–69 at Le Mans, Daytona and Sebring, Greenwood’s wide-body IMSA cars, the Trans-Am and SCCA privateers and the Corvette’s last decade of racing without any factory name on it.
MORE: THE C3 HUB / C3 RACE CARS
| YEAR | CAR | EVENT | RESULT |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968–69 | Owens-Corning L88s, DeLorenzo / Thompson | SCCA A-Production | National champions both years |
| 1968 | Sunray DX L88 | Daytona 24 Hours | 1st in GT class |
| 1968–69 | RED / NART L88 coupe, Henri Greder | 24 Hours of Le Mans | The first C3s at Le Mans; both retired |
| 1970–71 | Greenwood L88 Corvettes | SCCA A-Production | John Greenwood national champion both years |
| 1971 | Greenwood L88 | Sebring 12 Hours | GT class win, 7th overall |
| 1972–73 | Greenwood BFGoodrich Corvettes | 24 Hours of Le Mans | The first race cars on radial tires at Le Mans |
| 1975 | Greenwood wide-body Corvette | SCCA Trans-Am | Champion |
| 1976 | Greenwood IMSA wide-body Corvette | 24 Hours of Le Mans | IMSA-class pole; 215.6 mph on the Mulsanne, the fastest trap speed of the race |
| 1978 | Pace Car replica (6,502 built) | Indianapolis 500 | The first Corvette to pace the 500 |
C3 Corvette Race Cars
The guides to the C3 era’s race cars and the posts about them.
C4 Corvette Racing, 1984–1996
Showroom stock domination (1985–87), the Corvette Challenge (1988–89), the Corvette GTP prototypes, the ZR-1’s Fort Stockton records and Callaway’s and Guldstrand’s racing specials: the C4 raced in more series than any Corvette before it.
MORE: THE C4 HUB / C4 RACE CARS
| YEAR | CAR | EVENT | RESULT |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984–89 | Corvette GTP (Lola T710, turbo Chevrolet V-6) | IMSA Camel GTP | Two wins in 1986, Road Atlanta and Palm Beach (Hendrick; van der Merwe / Bundy), seven poles |
| 1985–87 | Showroom-stock Corvettes (Morrison, Bakeracing and others) | SCCA Showroom Stock GT / Escort Endurance | Won every race three seasons running; banned for 1988 |
| 1986 | Yellow convertible, Chuck Yeager driving | Indianapolis 500 | Pace car; all 7,315 convertibles built as replicas |
| 1987–88 | Protofab tube-frame Corvettes, Morrison Motorsports | SCCA Trans-Am / IMSA GTO | GTO class win, 1988 Sebring 12 Hours (Jones / Dallenbach); win at Lime Rock |
| 1988–89 | Corvette Challenge (56 cars, then 60) | SCCA one-make series | Factory-sealed L98s, Protofab prep; the first Corvette one-make series |
| 1990 | ZR-1 and L98 coupe, Morrison / Heinricy / Hayner / Baker and others | Fort Stockton, Texas, March 1–2 | 24-hour world record 175.885 mph; 5,000 miles at 173.791 mph |
| 1994–95 | Callaway SuperNatural Corvette LM | 24 Hours of Le Mans, GT2 | Retired 1994; 9th overall and 2nd in GT2 in 1995, a second car 3rd in class |
| 1995 | Corvette Team USA ZR-1 (Doug Rippie, DRZ-500 LT5) | 24 Hours of Le Mans, GT1 | Retired early; the only C4 ZR-1 to race at Le Mans |
| 1995 | Dark Purple convertible, Jim Perkins driving | Indianapolis 500 | Pace car; 527 replicas built |
C4 Corvette Race Cars
The guides to the C4 era’s race cars and the posts about them.
C5 Corvette Racing, 1997–2004
The C5-R and the start of Corvette Racing in 1999: Le Mans class wins in 2001, 2002 and 2004, the Daytona overall win of 2001 with the Earnhardts in the sister car, and the ALMS championships that made Pratt & Miller’s name.
MORE: THE C5 HUB / C5 RACE CARS
| YEAR | CAR | EVENT | RESULT |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Corvette C5-R (Pratt & Miller, Katech 6.0 then 7.0 L) | Rolex 24 at Daytona | Debut, two cars; 3rd in GT2 class |
| 2000 | Corvette C5-R | ALMS, Texas Motor Speedway | First win, September 2000; 3rd and 4th in GTS at Le Mans |
| 2001 | Corvette C5-R, Fellows / Kneifel / Freon / O’Connell | 24 Hours of Daytona | Overall win; the Earnhardt / Earnhardt Jr. car 4th |
| 2001 | Corvette C5-R | 24 Hours of Le Mans, GTS | 1st and 2nd in class; first ALMS GTS championship |
| 2002 | Corvette C5-R | Le Mans and Sebring, GTS | Class wins at both; second ALMS title |
| 2003 | Corvette C5-R | ALMS GTS / Le Mans | Third ALMS title; 2nd in class at Le Mans behind the Prodrive Ferrari 550 |
| 2004 | Corvette C5-R | 24 Hours of Le Mans, GTS | Third Le Mans class win; fourth ALMS title; the C5-R retires |
| 1998 / 2002 / 2004 | Corvette convertibles and Z06 | Indianapolis 500 | Pace cars; 1,163 replicas in 1998 only |
C5 Corvette Race Cars
The guides to the C5 era’s race cars and the posts about them.
C6 Corvette Racing, 2005–2013
The C6.R in GT1 (2005–09) and GT2/GTE (2010–13): Le Mans wins in 2006, 2009 and 2011, the GT1 titles, and the Z06 and ZR1 road cars that came from it.
MORE: THE C6 HUB / C6 RACE CARS
| YEAR | CAR | EVENT | RESULT |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Corvette C6.R GT1 (Pratt & Miller, Katech LS7.R) | 24 Hours of Le Mans, GT1 | 1st and 2nd in class on debut; ALMS GT1 champions |
| 2006 | Corvette C6.R GT1 | 24 Hours of Le Mans, GT1 | Class win; second ALMS GT1 title |
| 2007–08 | Corvette C6.R GT1 | ALMS GT1 / Le Mans | ALMS champions both years; 2nd in class at Le Mans behind Aston Martin |
| 2009 | Corvette C6.R GT1 | 24 Hours of Le Mans, GT1 | Third class win, the GT1 car’s last race for the factory |
| 2009 | Corvette C6.R GT2 (ZR1 body) | ALMS, Mid-Ohio | Debut in GT2, August 2009 |
| 2011 | Corvette C6.R GT2, Gavin / Beretta / Milner | 24 Hours of Le Mans, GTE Pro | Class win; Larbre’s privateer C6.R wins GTE-Am |
| 2012 | Corvette C6.R GT2 | ALMS GT | Team and driver championships; Larbre wins GTE-Am at Le Mans again |
| 2013 | Corvette C6.R GT2 | 12 Hours of Sebring / ALMS GT | Sebring win and the ALMS GT title; the C6.R retires |
| 2005–08 | Corvette convertibles and Z06 | Indianapolis 500 and Daytona 500 | Pace cars every year; 500 Indy replicas in 2007 and 2008 |
C6 Corvette Race Cars
The guides to the C6 era’s race cars and the posts about them.
C7 Corvette Racing, 2014–2019
The C7.R, 2014–19: the 2015 Le Mans class win, the Daytona 1–2 of 2015 and 2016, IMSA GTLM championships, and the Z06 C7.R Edition of 2016 built to mark it.
MORE: THE C7 HUB / C7 RACE CARS
| YEAR | CAR | EVENT | RESULT |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Corvette C7.R (Pratt & Miller, 5.5 L LT5.5R) | Rolex 24 at Daytona / Long Beach | Debut; first win at Long Beach in April |
| 2015 | Corvette C7.R | Daytona, Sebring and Le Mans, GTLM / GTE Pro | All three won in one season, the only GT sweep; Gavin / Milner / Taylor at Le Mans |
| 2016 | Corvette C7.R, Gavin / Milner / Fässler | Rolex 24 at Daytona / IMSA GTLM | Daytona win by 0.034 s over the sister car; Sebring win; drivers’, team and manufacturers’ titles |
| 2017 | Corvette C7.R, Garcia / Magnussen / Rockenfeller | 12 Hours of Sebring / IMSA GTLM | Sebring win; second straight championship sweep |
| 2018 | Corvette C7.R, Garcia / Magnussen | IMSA GTLM | Third straight drivers’ and team titles |
| 2019 | Corvette C7.R | IMSA GTLM | Winless; #3 second in points; retired at Petit Le Mans for the C8.R |
| 2015–17 | Larbre Compétition and Team AAI customer C7.Rs | FIA WEC, LMGTE Am | Customer program in Europe |
| 2015 / 2017 / 2018 / 2019 | Z06, Grand Sport, ZR1 and Grand Sport | Indianapolis 500 | Pace cars; Gordon 2015, Oladipo in the ZR1 2018 after the first was crashed, Earnhardt Jr. 2019 |
C7 Corvette Race Cars
The guides to the C7 era’s race cars and the posts about them.
C8 Corvette Racing, 2020–present
The C8.R (2020–23), the first mid-engine Corvette racer, with three straight IMSA titles, and the customer Z06 GT3.R from 2024: Pratt Miller Motorsports, AWA and DXDT in IMSA, TF Sport in the WEC, the Detroit and Le Mans wins of 2025 and the 2026 manufacturers’ championship.
MORE: THE C8 HUB / C8 RACE CARS
| YEAR | CAR | EVENT | RESULT |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Corvette C8.R (Pratt & Miller, LT6.R) | IMSA GTLM | Debut at Daytona; first win at Daytona in July; drivers’, team and manufacturers’ titles (Garcia / Taylor) |
| 2021 | Corvette C8.R | Rolex 24 at Daytona / IMSA GTLM / Le Mans | Daytona win; second straight championship; podium at Le Mans |
| 2022 | Corvette C8.R | IMSA GTD Pro / FIA WEC | The IMSA GTLM Championship Edition road car; podium at Le Mans |
| 2023 | Corvette C8.R, Keating / Varrone / Catsburg | 24 Hours of Le Mans, GTE Am / FIA WEC | Class win at Le Mans and the WEC title; the factory program’s last season |
| 2024 | Corvette Z06 GT3.R (customer) | IMSA GTD / GTD Pro, FIA WEC, ELMS | Debut at Daytona; podiums for Pratt Miller and TF Sport; both cars finish Le Mans |
| 2025 | Corvette Z06 GT3.R, TF Sport | European Le Mans Series / FIA WEC | ELMS LMGT3 champions; first WEC win at Imola |
| 2026 | Corvette Z06 GT3.R, TF Sport / Pratt Miller | 24 Hours of Le Mans, LMGT3 / IMSA GTD Pro | Le Mans class win; Detroit and VIR wins; IMSA manufacturers’ championship |
| 2025–26 | ZR1 and ZR1X | Papenburg / Pikes Peak / Lightning Lap | 233 mph; the Pikes Peak production-car record; the Lightning Lap record |
C8 Corvette Race Cars
The guides to the C8 era’s race cars and the posts about them.
FAQs
Does Corvette still race?
Yes. The Corvette Z06 GT3.R, built by Pratt Miller, races in IMSA’s GTD Pro and GTD classes (Pratt Miller Motorsports, AWA, DXDT) and in the FIA World Endurance Championship’s LMGT3 class (TF Sport). The factory Corvette Racing program ran from 1999 to 2023 with the C5-R, C6.R, C7.R and C8.R; since 2024 the cars are customer-run with Chevrolet’s support.
How many times has Corvette won Le Mans?
Nine class wins: 1960 (Cunningham’s C1), 2001, 2002 and 2004 (C5-R), 2006, 2009 and 2011 (C6.R), 2015 (C7.R) and 2025 (TF Sport’s Z06 GT3.R in LMGT3). No Corvette has won overall; the factory cars raced in the GT classes.
What is the Z06 GT3.R?
Chevrolet’s customer GT3 race car, derived from the C8 Z06 and its 5.5-liter flat-plane LT6, built by Pratt Miller and sold to teams under the FIA GT3 rules that IMSA and the WEC adopted. It replaced the factory C8.R from 2024 and won at Detroit and Le Mans in 2025 and the 2026 IMSA manufacturers’ championship. The site’s feature on the seven ways it differs from the road car is linked above.
What was the C8.R?
The first mid-engine Corvette race car, built by Pratt & Miller for the 2020 IMSA GTLM class with a 5.5-liter flat-plane V-8 that previewed the Z06’s LT6. It won the IMSA GTLM championship in 2020 and 2021 and the GTD Pro title in 2022, and raced at Le Mans through 2023, when the GTLM/GTE era ended and the program became the customer Z06 GT3.R.
What were the Grand Sports?
Five lightweight 1963 Sting Rays Zora Arkus-Duntov built to race against the Shelby Cobra, with lightweight tubular frames, thin fiberglass bodies and aluminum 377-cubic-inch engines, before GM’s racing ban stopped the program at five of a planned 125. They raced at Nassau in 1963 and privately for years; all five survive, and Grand Sport 003 sold for $18.7 million in 2026, the most ever paid for a Corvette.
Who was Corvette Racing?
Chevrolet’s factory sports-car team, run by Pratt & Miller of New Hudson, Michigan, from 1999 to 2023: the C5-R, C6.R, C7.R and C8.R, more than 100 wins in the American Le Mans Series and IMSA, eight Le Mans class wins and championships with every car. Drivers included Ron Fellows, Oliver Gavin, Olivier Beretta, Jan Magnussen, Antonio Garcia, Tommy Milner, Jordan Taylor and Nick Tandy.
What is the Corvette Challenge?
A one-make SCCA series of 1988 and 1989 for identically prepared C4 Corvettes, created after the showroom-stock Corvettes were banned for winning everything from 1985 to 1987. Chevrolet built 56 cars in 1988 and 60 in 1989; the survivors are collected, and the site tracks their history and sales.
Where can I follow Corvette Racing results?
Here: the news feed above carries the race reports from every IMSA and WEC round, the race pages (Le Mans, Sebring, Daytona, Petit Le Mans) gather the coverage by event, and the generation hubs carry each era’s results table.
