Taylor, Gavin put in strong showings behind wheel of mid-engine Corvette C8.R
ELKHART LAKE, Wis. (Aug. 1, 2020) – Corvette Racing will roll off second and third in the GT Le Mans (GTLM) category of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship for Sunday’s fourth round of the series at Road America.
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The COVID shutdowns have forced a lot of rescheduling for racing across the country including one of our favorites, the Indianapolis 500. I was thinking for sure that would be the venue where we would see our first C8 Corvette in pace car livery, but after the “greatest spectacle in racing” moved their dates to August 23rd, we were unsure when a Corvette Pace Car might be debuted.
Welcome to another fun-filled edition of Quick Shifts! Quick Shifts is a content feature here at CorvetteBlogger featuring links to Corvette and automotive-related stories of interest. Our man Alex is up in the mountains for the weekend with his family, and as I am a Midyear owner, you’ll be getting another Four-Speed edition today as all gears past 4th are overrated anyway!
The content that we have hand-selected for you this week includes a new backdrop for R8C Museum Deliveries, installing carbon fiber front grille bezels, the origin of the Green Mamba, GMC teases the electric Hummer and a throwback to the introduction of the Corvette Engine Build Program which launched 10 years ago.
![[VIDEO] 2020 Corvette Owner Offers a 10,000 Mile Review of His Daily Driver](https://www.corvetteblogger.com/images/content/2020-2/073120_12b.jpg)
Other than the test drivers employed by General Motors, there probably aren’t too many people who have driven the new mid-engine Corvette more than YouTuber Zac LP.
In his latest post, Zac gives the first 10,000 mile review of the 2020 Corvette, or actually the first 12,000 mile review since he’s running a little behind.
“It has been,” he stresses, “the best 12,000 miles in a vehicle in my life!”
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When the C8 Corvette was introduced last summer, it was like a nuclear bomb dropped on the fussy supercar space. A technological tour de force, the 2020 mid-engine C8 is the future of Corvette whether we like it or not.
To those with an automotive version of radiation sickness wandering around with their ears ringing, we say the best antidote to the C8 mushroom cloud is to find and cultivate Corvettes of the last 66 years.
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The 396th mid-engine 2020 Corvette has traveled just 2,118 miles since the owner took delivery in February.
So much for the value of low-mileage beauties, though.
While Corvette fans are mostly optimistic, nothing can throw cold water on enthusiasm for your team’s chances then having the car’s performance throttled back just as the C8.Rs were able to string together back to back wins. But so far IMSA is letting the GTLM cars race as the updated Balance of Performance tables for this weekend’s contest at Road America shows only minor adjustments for the class.
![[VIDEO] YouTuber Blows Up Her Twin Turbo C8 Corvette](https://www.corvetteblogger.com/images/content/2020-2/073020_12b.jpg)
Emelia Hartford, a popular youtuber with a ton of followers, had been building out her 2020 Corvette with the most major mod being the twin-turbo set-up added to the car over the course of the last month. I’ve been trying to nail down exactly how much power the car was making and in one of her recent videos where it was being dyno tested, the car was making 609 ft-lb of torque and 539 hp at 2700 rpm.
With the potential of Tropical Storm Isaias to turn into a Hurricane this weekend, our friends at the NCM Insurance Agency have sent out a notice regarding the storm that is not only threatening Florida but may potentially head north along the East Coast impacting many fellow Corvette and classic car owners along the way.
