kbreese

Just watched Speedvision tonight...the World GT series and it was a lot of fun but I was dissapointed to see Chevy at the bottom of the list for the manufacturer points, while porsche was first...even cadillac was ahead. I thought the vette had a higher stance than this in the racing scene...what about last year??

C6400hp

Im not sure but, I believe all the Corvettes in that series are privately sponsored while the Caddys and many of the Porsches are factory sponsored. My guess is it has alot to do with the budgets of the race teams.

kbreese

why in the world are no corvettes factory sponsored. This is Chevy's freaking flagship

micro

Because they want to establish the CTS-V as a race car despite it being a ringer.

I think the question to ask is why doesn't Chevy have Pratt & Miller build customer C6-Rs and Z06s.

Porsche has huge success with the 911 GT3 Cup and GT3 RSR.

Porsche has two factory 997 GT3 RSRs at the 24 Hours of Spa this weekend, but it is their debut race and their only one until next year when [I]privateers[I] get them.

Ferrari has more wins in the GT2 class in 2006 than Porsche thanks to its F430 GTC.

kbreese

Thanks for the info. I can't imagine why they would rather focus on a 4-door caddy as a race car than a corvette, which pretty much already is a race car right from the factory. It's almost like the big dollar porsche and ferrari guys paid chevy off or something, lol. They don't want a car costing 1/3 of what their cars cost beating them on the track. I know these cars as they build them up are a far cry from what they are from the factory, but still...The Z06 certainly seems the better platform to start from.

jlucas

Purchasing department goofed and they had an extra supply of 6 lug hubs.

micro

IIRC, think the SCCA doesn't allow its aluminum chassis.

I do know that one team has raced a few Speed GT races with two Aston Martin DBRS9s and those have an aluminum chassis.