Photo Credit: Richard Prince for Chevy Racing
Rumors that Larbre Competition will resume its relationship with Corvette Racing are expected to be confirmed during a press conference Thursday when the FIA and ACO will set the field for the upcoming season.
“You will have confirmation tomorrow from the WEC and Le Mans about the entries,” Larbre team owner Jack Leconte promised, “and you will have good news – a yellow car (Corvette C7.R) is inside.”
The agreement will culminate several months of work between Michigan-based Pratt & Miller Engineering, which builds and runs the factory Corvette C7.Rs, GM Racing, and Larbre Competition. At least one new C7.R is expected to be shipped to Larbre’s home base in France.
Larbre had great success with Pratt & Miller’s Corvette C6.R chassis through the 2013 season, including a class win at Le Mans, and then switched over to the P2 category last year with a Judd V8-powered Morgan.
Leconte said his team stopped running GTE-Am last year because the ACO was not happy with the C7 homologation, but continued talking to Corvette Racing about 2015.
“For 2015, they complete everything with the C7, and we don’t want an empty chair – we don’t have any yellow cars (Corvettes) racing outside the USA, so this is very exciting,” Leconte told RACER. “Our partners had very good memories with the C6, and so we reset with the C7 and we have very good support from GM Racing to go back to the WEC championship and Le Mans in the GTE-Am category.”
Leconte said he expects to begin testing the car in March in Sebring, “and then it will become very busy for us after the championship starts.”
Source:
Racer.com
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