Corvette Racing at Road Atlanta: What Might Have Been

Photo Credit score: Richard Prince for Corvette Racing
Fifth-position GTD Professional finish for Garcia, Taylor, Catsburg in No. 3 Corvette C8.R

BRASELTON, Ga. (Oct. 1, 2022) – Corvette Racing closed its year in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship on Saturday with a fifth-place complete in the GT Daytona (GTD) Professional class immediately after the 10-hour Petit Le Mans at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta.

Antonio Garcia, Jordan Taylor and Nicky Catsburg entered Saturday hoping to replicate their victory from previously this yr at the Mobil 1 Twelve Hrs of Sebring. In the long run, two individual incidents of make contact with did not assistance the No. 3 Mobil 1/SiriusXM Chevrolet Corvette C8.R’s quest for its next victory of the year.

The end result was plenty of for Garcia and Taylor to acquire third in the GTD Drivers Championship and Chevrolet to finish 3rd in the last Companies standings.

The working day started potent with Garcia shifting forward from the green flag. He picked up two positions to 3rd on the opening two laps of the race and moved to the direct just past the hour mark. He drove the to start with 92 minutes just before handing off to Taylor, who ran very first or 2nd for the very first 90 minutes of his time in the Corvette.

The day’s initial setback came near the a few-hour mark when Taylor’s appropriate-rear Michelin went down although leading on a restart following contact with the No. 9 Porsche. He was able to dive immediately into the pits for four new tires but fell down to sixth.

The march again toward the entrance came above the next two hours as two a lot more entire-program yellows and penalties to some of its rivals permitted the Corvette to make up observe place. By the time Catsburg took about in the vicinity of the four-and-a-half-hour mark, the No. 3 was back again with the direct back in GTD Pro and ran as superior as next just before Garcia returned to the driver’s seat in close proximity to the 7-hour mark.

Matters came undone for the No. 3 Corvette with a minor far more than two hrs to go as Garcia spun at Turn 11 just after make contact with with the 62 Ferrari. He dropped from third to fifth and then down to sixth as Corvette Racing engineers immediately went on an alternate pit tactic in hopes of a yellow to get the C8.R back into contention.

The race’s closing yellow arrived with 52 minutes remaining and introduced Garcia to inside of five seconds of the direct within the closing 30 minutes but couldn’t attract nearer at the finish.

Corvette Racing closes its 2022 program with the Eight Several hours of Bahrain and the ultimate race of the FIA Environment Stamina Championship on Nov. 10-12.

ANTONIO GARCIA, NO. 3 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C8.R – Concluded FIFTH IN GTD Professional:
“It’s difficult when you have GTD vehicles combating for the same matter as you and their general performance is completely reverse of yours. It is extremely hard to race when a person auto achieves a lap time in one particular way and the relaxation do it an additional. I will have to say it’s the story of the year. We showed at the commencing of the race that if we are up front and can do our have speed, we’re very good and we can race. As quickly as you have someone in entrance of you that you cannot pass and another car or truck will get to you, they will go earlier simply because you have almost nothing to support you defend. That’s been the detail this year. Disheartening day, discouraging season… but the hard work from everyone at Corvette Racing has been wonderful all time. We could not request for far more from the team. That’s 110 %.”
On the start out: “The start out of the race was simple and calm in a way. We experienced good speed to the other cars in front of individuals and managed to soar most of those in the pits. Then the pace was really great. I experienced to capture the 79, which appeared doable and obtained into the lead. But a single additional year wherever I have received numerous stints at Petit Le Mans but in no way the entire race.”
JORDAN TAYLOR, NO. 3 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C8.R – Concluded FIFTH IN GTD Pro:
“I really feel like we put ourselves in some fantastic places these days. At the stop of it, we just didn’t have the rate to struggle fellas. Soon after that last restart we ended up form of in a situation to battle again but received motored by. That was fairly much our year in a person race. Hopefully we can go into the offseason, figure out what all we learned and appear back again more robust following year.”
Opening stint: “Our automobile was respectable. We experienced a minimal little bit of speak to, which was unfortunate. It kind of cycled us to the again but we had been nevertheless in a fantastic place. It’s genuinely really hard to go around here with the site visitors. I was not going to give the posture (to the 9 Porsche). I was striving to be intense and hold him off. We had been racing for the Endurance Cup so I feel which is why we were being racing that aggressively that early on.”
NICKY CATSBURG, NO. 3 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C8.R – Completed FIFTH IN GTD Professional:
“It was a rough race. We didn’t have the tempo at the conclude. It would seem like all people else experienced a little something still left and we didn’t. I experienced enjoyable but sad to say this was the most we could do.
“Honestly there wasn’t a great deal of crazy motion. It was fairly exciting. Sadly on the two pit entries, I got held up by a couple of stints and shed some time. But that did not signify so significantly for our speed. It just implies that all the effort and hard work you set in all through the stint is then shed for no explanation, which is very annoying.”
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Corvette Racing at Chevrolet


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