Yahoo Autos 2024 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R is a new era of Corvette motorsports
At the time of writing, Corvette Racing has won 120 races, eight of those being class wins at Le Mans, 14 manufacturer's championships, and 15 team titles. It's likely the team will find a way to add at least one win this year, the modesty of that statement arising from the fact that the Corvette C8.R won just once last year. Come 2024, this is the beast that will bear the burden of adding to the trophy case, the 2024 Corvette Z06 GT3.R. The current C8.R was built to GT Le Mans /GT Endurance Pro specs then converted to the more restrictive GT3 spec last year when IMSA and the FIA eliminated GTLM/GTE. The new racer is the first Corvette to be designed for GT3 competition, and we expect it to get Jake back to regularly winning ways when it enters competition at next year's Rolex 24 at Daytona.
Despite the wholly changed name, this is a reworked present C8.R, that car always having been a close sibling to the production Z06. An aluminum frame from the Corvette assembly line in Bowling Green gets shipped to longtime partner Pratt & Miller Engineering to be fitted with the roll cage and carbon fiber bodywork. There's still a 5.5-liter V8 with a flat-plane crank behind the cabin that's also built at Bowling Green, output maxing out at the 600 horsepower cap mandated by the regulations. There's a six-speed sequential transmission just like on the C8.R. A double wishbone suspension shares the same architecture as the Z06 road car but fits motorsports-specific springs and dampers. Six-piston front calipers pair with four-piston rears to push race-specific pads on race-specific rotors.
