Corvette Racing's Doug Fehan Speaking at SCCA Chicago Region Meeting - OPEN TO ALL!
10-01-2014, 12:06 PM
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Corvette Racing's Doug Fehan Speaking at SCCA Chicago Region Meeting - OPEN TO ALL!
Race fans will get a chance to hear Doug Fehan speak about his career and Corvette Racing at the general meeting of the Sports Car Club of America - Chicago Region. The meeting will be held October 22 at 7 p.m. at K1 Speed in Addison, Ill., and is OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Fehan is program manager for Corvette Racing, which he helped start in 1999. During his time with the highly successful program, its teams have achieved 94 victories in endurance racing – 82 in the American Le Mans Series (ALMS), seven at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, one at Daytona and four this season in the Tudor United SportsCar Championship series.
Fehan began his career in motorsports by racing a homebuilt Chevelle stock car on the USAC circuit in the late 1960s. A chance encounter with GM Racing Director Herb Fishel launched his career with GM, first with Oldsmobile’s IMSA World Sports Car program and then GM’s factory-backed Corvette racing program. Fehan received the Spirit of Le Mans Award from the Automobile Club De l’Ouest in 2014 and the ALMS “From the Fans” award in 2004 and 2008.
Doug is the reason you always wanted that YELLOW Corvette!
Also on display in the lobby of K-1 Speed will be the Blackdog Speed Shop Pirelli World Challenge GT Corvette campaigned by Tony Gaples!
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Fehan is program manager for Corvette Racing, which he helped start in 1999. During his time with the highly successful program, its teams have achieved 94 victories in endurance racing – 82 in the American Le Mans Series (ALMS), seven at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, one at Daytona and four this season in the Tudor United SportsCar Championship series.
Fehan began his career in motorsports by racing a homebuilt Chevelle stock car on the USAC circuit in the late 1960s. A chance encounter with GM Racing Director Herb Fishel launched his career with GM, first with Oldsmobile’s IMSA World Sports Car program and then GM’s factory-backed Corvette racing program. Fehan received the Spirit of Le Mans Award from the Automobile Club De l’Ouest in 2014 and the ALMS “From the Fans” award in 2004 and 2008.
Doug is the reason you always wanted that YELLOW Corvette!
Also on display in the lobby of K-1 Speed will be the Blackdog Speed Shop Pirelli World Challenge GT Corvette campaigned by Tony Gaples!
https://www.facebook.com/events/939697112710526/
10-23-2014, 11:07 AM
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Drifting
I went to this last night and so glad I did. Doug talked for 2.5 hours about his career and Corvette racing, the development of the C6 & 7, he inherited the C5. He's down to earth, funny and a class act. He mentioned his favorite track in US as Road America and gave us tons of insight to the behind the scenes of racing that you don't know about. Someone asked him about the future of a mid-engined Vet, I don't think it will happen by his remarks, but you never know. Some of his reasoning: trans is about 40K( almost the cost of existing car), noise, no storage/trunk, we all ready kick butt as as front engined car and it would be way to expensive for average Joe. Also that the sales of the C7 already passed the total sales of all the exotics combined. The C7 Z06, almost totally developed from R & D from racing.
Thanks to Black Dog and SCCA for this invite. There might be some video of this on the SCCA website in the future.
Thanks to Black Dog and SCCA for this invite. There might be some video of this on the SCCA website in the future.