Our friends at BadBoyVettes have alerted us to a GM Press conference on Tuesday August 4th at 1pm EST for the introduction of the new ZR1-homologated GT2 Corvette C6.Rs. BBV says the new Corvettes will be sporting a new livery created by the GM Design Center.
We can tell you the Corvettes will be yellow and Jake will be there. Corvette Racing’s Program Manager Doug Fehan confirmed as much back in April while talking about the GT2 Corvettes at the Corvette Museum’s Birthday Day Bash:
“Yellow will be the predominant color. We have a tremendous amount of equity built up in that and its not just here in the United States, its around the world…Photographers love it, magazine publishers love it, art people love it, so when you look at all the ancillary stuff that we are able to achieve by retaining that velocity yellow color, that will be the base color on the car but I can assure you that graphically, they will be very distinguishable in the way they look.”
The Corvette Racing team returns to the ALMS grid this weekend for the Acura Sports Car Challenge at the Mid-Ohio August 6-8th. The two-hour, 45-minute race is scheduled to start at 2:10 p.m. ET on Saturday, August 8. The race will be televised same-day tape-delayed on NBC at 4 p.m. ET.
We are checking with some of the Chevrolet communications people to see if the press conference will be available online. We’ll share any details we learn as well as provide full covereage of the unveiling on Tuesday afternoon. Until then, you can catch up again on some of the GT2 Corvette’s details by watching the Doug Fehan/GT2 Corvette video.
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Related:
[VIDEO] Corvette Racing’s Doug Fehan Talks about the ZR1-Based GT2 Corvette C6.R
[VIDEO] Corvette Racing’s Doug Fehan Talks about Le Mans, Green Challenge and Jake
[VIDEO] Corvette Racing: Gavin and Beretta Win Final ALMS GT1 Race at Long Beach
Corvette Racing: Pratt & Miller GT2 Corvette Spied at Road Atlanta
Corvette Racing: GT2 Corvette C6.R to Wear ZR1 Bodyy
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