Corvette Racing Teams Making Strides with the Corvette Z06 GT3.R’s Reliability

Corvettes have always been a work in progress, as each successive year in any given generation has seen incremental improvements in the car.

Thus, it’s no surprise that same philosophy of constantly trying to get better is being carried over to the 2024 Corvette Z06 GT3.R, and that ever-increasing reliability is already paying dividends for one of the teams competing in the car.

Taking advantage of undisclosed “erratum” fixes introduced per FIA GT3 regulations, DXDT Racing finally got the monkey off Chevy’s back by picking up the new car’s first win in global competition two weekends ago at the Fanatec GT America at Circuit of The Americas.

The Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports team had been hampered by reliability problems in January’s season-opening Rolex 24 at Daytona, but Corvette Z06 GT3.R program manager Christie Bagne says the car has been getting better with each passing competition and DXDT “definitely benefited” from what was learned from IMSA and WEC debuts.

“People have seen the car progress through the last few races,” Bagne told Sportscar365. “We had some of the pull-away launch challenges at Daytona, which people saw. Looking at it [at COTA], the car pulls away smooth every time and now looks great.”

Bagne praised the “huge progress” by the team and says she’s “really proud of the way that everybody has banded together.”

But the work definitely hasn’t stopped. “We’ve made big steps in terms of the reliability of the car,” Bagne says. “We’re going to continue to make the most robust car possible.”

Indeed, TF Sport will be running at next month’s 24 Hours of Le Mans, and Bagne says several updates will be made before that race, “all targeted at reliability of the platform, and then we can shift focus more to the expansion and long-term performance strategy.”

All the teams running the new Z06 GT3.Rs are allowed access to these improvements, per GM and Pratt Miller’s open-book approach.

That strategy paid off for DXDT last week, according to Bagne.

“Even though we’ve just launched with DXDT Racing, we’ve had the opportunity to include them in the overall program since we first made the commitment to selling cars to them,” she says. “They were at our test last year, they’ve been in our all-customer meetings, they’ve been over to our shop, helping assemble their own cars to get familiar with them. Through that whole process, we’ve really built a strong relationship, which I think helped our debut be successful.”

Source:
Sportscar365.com

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