ALTON, Va. (Aug. 26, 2023) – Corvette Racing and driver Antonio Garcia weathered intense heat Saturday to qualify on the second row for Sunday’s Michelin GT Challenge at Virginia International Raceway – the second of two GT-only races this season for the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.
Somebody is going to take home a magnificent 1958 Corvette restomod convertible being offered at no reserve at the first-ever Barrett-Jackson New Orleans Auction from Sept. 28-30.
Everybody who loves Corvettes is turning up at Corvettes at Carlisle. I met this harry guy last night at the hotel bar and next thing you know he is showing me pics of his Corvettes on his phone.
All roads lead back to Auburn, Indiana, at the end of August as Worldwide counts down to The Auburn Auction, its annual three-day auction extravaganza at home in the birthplace of America’s original classic car auction. Collectors can browse an eclectic, curated selection of spectacular supercars, pre-war automobiles, sports cars, classics, select American muscle cars, customs, and private no-reserve collections, with over 275 vehicles slated to cross the block.
The catalogue can be viewed online here, along with full information on general admission, bidder registration and event details. The Auburn Auction is scheduled for August 31 – September 2nd at Kruse Plaza, the company’s Indiana headquarters.
Jordan Taylor didn’t think he would ever leave General Motors racing before the end of his career.
But recent IMSA rules changes are the overwhelming reason for his recent decision to leave the Corvette Racing team and return to his family’s racing operation for 2024, Taylor said in a recent interview with Autosport
“I always saw my career staying at GM until the end, especially when I made the move to Corvette Racing, which was always my goal,” the 32-year-old said.
But when IMSA replaced the GT Le Mans class for GTE cars with the GT3-based GT Daytona Pro division for 2022, “it took away some of the passion and enjoyment of driving the cars, and the style of driving that I enjoy,” Taylor pointed out.
He called the decision to leave CR “difficult” to make, but at his age and this stage of his career, noted that it would be an “exciting time” to return to prototype racing and “fight for overall wins and race in a class that has the capability of racing for overall wins at Le Mans, which is something I’ve never done.”
Taylor will return to the team run by his father Wayne, joining teammate Louis Deletraz in a second Acura ARX-06 LMDh in the IMSA SportsCar Championship in 2024.
It was a move he didn’t foresee when he joined the Corvette Racing team four seasons ago after having raced Corvette DP and Cadillac DPi cars during his first stint at Wayne Taylor Racing from 2013-19.
“No, not really,” he replied when asked if he ever thought he would be returning to the family fold. “When I left prototypes, it felt like that was in the rearview mirror. We won two championships, we won two Rolexes (Daytona 24 Hours), and a bunch of things I wanted to win. I never thought I would come back, but as things changed with the rules, the desire to go back came back.”
Indeed, he says returning to his family “is a great place to be,” adding that some of his best years were with the family team “so I’m excited to get started with Louis and create some more memories on the family side.”
Source:
Autosport
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Hobbyists are a funny bunch. They tend to get so deep into their passions that they start to get worked up by things that are meaningless to Joe Six-Pack – It isn’t just a Michael Jordan jersey; it’s a signed, game-worn jersey from game 4 of the 1993 NBA Finals when Da Air Man dropped a career-finals-high 55-points (while shooting just 72% from the foul line and only attempting one three-pointer – which he missed!). That same excitement over attention to detail and back stories (nerdiness, if you will) can be applied to art, stamps, coins, comic books, first edition novels, movie props, and anything collectible, really; there’s something neat about finding/owning something that stands out as extraordinary, even in a specialized crowd – The History Channel owes a lot of its modern programming to this idea! Well, around here, we love America’s Sports Car, and there are a lot of things that can distinguish an already legendary automobile from its renowned peers. We love unearthing examples with celebrity ownership history, notably low miles or just a rare exterior color, but Pennsylvania’s JFK Auto has a pair of ‘Vettes that crank the fascinating meter up to 12.
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A Texas man named Gilbert has the most fun answer you’ll ever find.
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Every car enthusiast has heard of the Corvette Z06, but how many know about the 2002 Z06 Tiger Shark?
In the latest edition of Jay Leno’s Garage that dropped on YouTube today, Paul Rivera, global director of business at Tecstar-Wheel2 Wheel, takes a stroll down memory lane to talk about and then roll down the highway in the only Tiger Shark Corvette in existence.
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