[VIDEO] Corvette Racing’s 2025 Z06 GT3.R IMSA Racing Livery Revealed Ahead of Roar Practice Session

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[VIDEO] Corvette Racing's 2025 Z06 GT3.R IMSA Racing Livery Revealed Ahead of Roar Practice Session

Photo Credit: Pratt Miller Motorsports


The Black Tail is back!

Pratt Miller Motorsports revealed the 2025 Corvette Z06 GT3.R racing livery this week ahead of the Roar Before the 24 practice session which kicks off on Friday morning. The factory-backed racing team will still be competing with the familiar Yellow/Black paint scheme, but this year they are reintroducing the black tail that was first run on the C5.R, although we remember it best from C6.R days.

The introduction of the Corvette Racing livery ahead of the new racing season used to be a much bigger deal, and we’ve had some great ones over the years including the Black and Yellow “Jakes.” Today, the livery designs are much more controlled by General Motors and so the year-to-year changes are mostly minor these days like the return of the Black Tail.

From Pratt Miller Motorsports via X.com:

Who wants to see the 2025 livery for Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports?? Can I get a Wooooo!?


Wooooo Wooooo!

The Z06 GT3.R begins its life as an aluminum chassis frame that is sourced directly from the Corvette Assembly Plant in Bowling Green. Pratt Miller Motorsports engineers weld a steel rollcage onto the chassis frame as the first step in constructing the racer. The race car also shares the surface elements with the Z06 street car from the top of the windshield to the rear of the cars. The most prominent are the side air intakes behind the doors. The Chevrolet 5.5L flat-plane crank V8 comes from the Bowling Green Assembly Plant as well, before being modified for racing at the GM Performance and Racing Center in Michigan. The LT6.R racing engine shares 80% of its content with the production LT6 engine for the Z06 street car.

Pratt Miller Motorsports


To date, Corvette Racing has won 128 races since first coming on the scene in 1999. However, 2025 also marks the 69th year of Corvettes participating in international road racing as John Fitch and Walt Hansgen drove a Corvette to a Class B victory at the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1956.

The Roar Before the 24 is set for January 17-19 with seven sessions scheduled across the three days. The Rolex 24 goes green at 1:40 p.m. ET on Saturday, January 25 with qualifying on Thursday, January 23.


Source:
Pratt Miller Motorsports / X.com

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4 COMMENTS

  1. I have seen the current Pratt Miller racing team described in some articles (including this one) as a factory-backed racing team, and in other articles as just another customer racing team. So which is it? Is Chevrolet now competing head-to-head with its own customers, or not?

  2. Hugely better than the C8’s in driver visibility to see out the front.
    These GT3R features NEED to be done for the C8’s for safety reasons alone !
    I complained about this issue when I drove it home the day Ipicked it up.
    Buyers remorse !
    I spoke to customer relations in Bowling Green about my concerns within a couple weeks of ownership but no help in resolving them.
    I left a message on P&M’S voicemail about addressing the r & l mirrors and window baffle/guides that are huge blindspots in 2023 but never heard back.
    Fortunately I have a C4 and a C6 to drive since I do more to not drive the C8.
    Ever notice wrecked C8’s are for the most part front end damaged.

  3. Hey Keith, are the roll cages, since made with 4130 chromoly, welded to the alum frame, or bonded and affixed mechanically?
    I had the opportunity to tour PrattMiller and it didn’t seem to me there was any welding.
    Thanks,
    Mike

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