GTD PRO Corvettes will try and carve their way forward in 100-minute sprint
DETROIT (May 30, 2025) – Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports’ two Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.Rs will try to make magic happen Saturday from deep in the field of the Chevrolet Detroit Sports Car Classic.
Tommy Milner was the fastest Corvette Z06 GT3.R driver in Friday’s 15-minute GTD PRO qualifying that saw a red-flag stoppage period nearly 10 minutes into the session. A line of six cars ran mostly nose-to-tail for the first green-flag portion with Milner sixth in the No. 4 Corvette and teammate Antonio Garcia ninth in the No. 3, which lost its fastest qualifying time due to causing a red flag in Friday’s second practice.
Qualifying restarted but only to achieve the minimum green-flag time of 10 minutes, which meant the entire field took the checkered flag without the chance to put in a final timed lap.
Moving forward will be difficult around the tight and twisty 1.645-mile, nine-turn circuit that circles General Motors’ global headquarters. There is hope, however. The pace of the two Pratt Miller Corvettes was evident from Friday’s pair of practice sessions.
Heading into qualifying, Garcia and Milner had the two fastest times in the class with four of the six fastest times belonging to the quartet of Corvette drivers. All four laptimes were faster than the eventual pole-winning car.
Those results came from data and lessons learned from 2024’s race along with pre-event simulation sessions at the program’s Driver in the Loop facility last week.
This is the second appearance for the Corvette/Pratt Miller squad and the rest of the GTP and GTD PRO cars at the downtown Detroit circuit. Corvette Racing previously scored three victories at the Belle Isle circuit, the last coming in 2021.
The Chevrolet Detroit Sports Car Classic is scheduled for 3:40 p.m. ET on Saturday. The race will stream live on Peacock in the U.S., and IMSA’s YouTube channel internationally. IMSA Radio will stream the call of the race at IMSA.com along XM 206, SiriusXM Online 996.
CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R QUALIFYING DRIVER QUOTES
TOMMY MILNER, NO. 4 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R:
“I think the smart thing for me is to not say what my plan is from now on. But certainly we were compromised as were many other cars by a car that had clear track that did not want to continue to qualify the car, just waiting for something to happen. I don’t know what exactly. Yeah, a lot of us paid the penalty for it. It’s not the first time that car has done stuff like that. So, yeah, just going forward we’ve done something different in the past in qualifying and it’s paid off massively. And so I think from now on, we’ll just do something different than what most other people do and let us determine our own destiny and not leave it to the hands of incompetent drivers.”
ANTONIO GARCIA, NO. 3 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R:
“I’m a bit confused about today. I don’t know what is the strategy in qualifying for people who are messing things up when they are alone ahead. We probably should have stopped and done our own thing. It’s unfortunate. We need to somehow make something happen tomorrow.”
Source:
CorvetteRacing.com
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I don’t understand IMSA. When a car wrecks during qualifying, you stop the clock, clean up the wreck, put the remaining cars back on the track, give them a couple of laps to warm up the tires & then restart the clock so all drivers get the FULL amount of time to qualify! They should be organized enough to schedule qualifying to allow for this to be done & not have it interfere with another groups practice, qualifying or race. 15 minutes to qualify is a very short amount of time to qualify. All drivers need the entire 15 minutes to properly qualify. The Chevy Corvettes got screwed in this case & the no performance ferd turd craptangs lucked out & ended up on the front row. The #3 Chevy Corvette drove from 9th up to 2nd & should have won the race.
I agree with you on the short amount of time that they have to qualify. More time should be allowed for it because you never when something like a crash is going to occur. And the fords are still getting favorable BoP and have been since the beginning of the season. I guess IMSA is trying to keep them happy so that they don’t leave the series like they normally do after a couple of seasons.
Muskrats are looking fast this year.
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