The aboriginal Corvette C6-R chase car will admission at the 12 Hours of Sebring in March 2005 afterwards a abounding year of accurate testing and development. The two-car, factory-backed Chevrolet sports car affairs will attempt in the production-based GT1 chic (formerly GTS) of American Le Mans Series as able-bodied as the allegorical 24 Hours of Le Mans in France, a chase area the Corvette has won its chic for three out of the accomplished four years. The new chase car is the best technically avant-garde sports car anytime developed by General Motors, alternative years of acquaintance from the ascendant Corvette C5-R as able-bodied as the advancements brought alternating from the next-generation Corvette C6 and Z06 assembly models.
"The Corvette C6-R is the best sports car we've anytime congenital and it has been our advantage to advance it alongside the new Corvette Z06," said Harry Turner , GM's accumulation administrator for alley racing. "History will bethink the C5-R as one of the best sports antagonism cars of best and we've set the bar aerial for the C6-R. With the new C6 anatomy and anatomy anatomy as our starting point, we're already ahead. We larboard no bean unturned in the development of this new car and we are attractive advanced to antagonism it in advanced of the apple in 2005."
