Just out of curiosity, since corvette racing is now racing the C6R, what happen to the C5R's ? did gm sell them? put them in a museum? They were amazing cars that ran with the best in the world.

 

I know where a few of em are. 1 was sold to a private team and ran last year at Le Mans and in Europe. Another is in the private collection of Chip Miller and there is one at GM headquarters in Detroit sitting in the showroom. They were put up for private purchase but I dont know where they all went.

 

Two of them were on display at Mid America's Corvette Funfest in September. I don't remember the name of the man that now owns them, but they were the only two C5R's that raced in blue colors. They were fantastic!

 

Chassis #1 was purchased by Harry Yeagy a collector.

Chassis #2 is currently sitting in the Pratt & Miller lobby. It can be purchased for less than $300K.

Chassis #3 still looking for info...

Chassis #4 was purchased by the family of Chip Miller.

Chassis #5 was sold to a team to race in Belcar. Car was also in a fire and rebuilt.

Chassis #6 was sold to Pacific Coast Motorsports and raced ALMS and then resold to team PSI.

Chassis #7 also sold to a Belcar team and competing in French FFSA-GT along with Chassis #5.

The 2 blue cars, Chassis #8 and Chassis #9 (Dale Earnhardt Jr fire car) are the LeMans cars, these cars were also chassis that were raced here in the states..Purchased by Bob Patrella.

Chassis #10 was purchased by a French team to race, Luc Alphand Aventures.

Chassis #11 was sold to GLPK Carsport to European series.

That is the history of the C5Rs in a quick post....

Adam

 

thanx for all the info guys, I wonder if there still winning races today!? Those people sure are lucky to have a piece of history If I hit the lottery, I will def. buy that one for sale, ( I can dream, can't I?) haha .

 

Not fair that you have all the answers since you work at the museum. Great answer though. Thanks

 

good info!!

 

Sorry!

LOL...

Adam

 

i bought one....i love it!!!

 

I am sure you are correct with your information, except I am pretty sure that Dale Jr was in a C6R at Sear Point when he was involved with fire. He backed it into a wall and the fuel filler pipe broke and spilled the fuel. I thought it was the first year of the C6R's, but I do know it was definitely a typical Pratt & Miller yellow car, not blue.

 

Earnhardt Jr. burned after crash

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SONOMA, CALIF. - The AP
A fun weekend of racing for Dale Earnhardt Jr. turned frightening when a wreck during a warmup for an American Le Mans Series race turned his car into a fireball, leaving him hospitalized with burns on his face and legs.

Earnhardt's injuries were "moderate-sized burns of moderate intensity," according to medical officials at Infineon Raceway. The ALMS said Earnhardt had second-degree burns on the insides of both legs and on his chin.

The NASCAR star, son of the late Dale Earnhardt, was flown to the University of California-Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, where he was expected to be kept overnight for observation. He was to be examined again later on Monday.

"I'm bummed out and disappointed I couldn't run the race," Earnhardt said through a team spokesman.

Steve Crisp, a spokesman for Dale Earnhardt Inc., said Earnhardt was not badly injured.

"They've done the X-rays and there's no bones broken," Crisp said. "He'll be fine."

Still, any crash involving Earnhardt always brings up memories of the last-lap wreck at the 2001 Daytona 500 that killed his father, easily the most popular driver of his era.

Crisp said the younger Earnhardt will compete in this weekend's Nextel Cup race at New Hampshire International Speedway. Earnhardt, second in the Cup standings behind Jimmie Johnson, was supposed to be enjoying a weekend off from his regular series for a rare chance to race without pressure.

"These folks are tough," Crisp said. "They bounce back from all kinds of things. He'll be OK. They wanted him to rest comfortably today and they'll send him out tomorrow."

The accident came at the start of the 30-minute morning practice. Earnhardt lost control of his Chevrolet Corvette C5-R, spun and slid backward into a concrete barrier in turn eight of the road racing track.

Officials said the crash broke the fuel filler neck, where the gas is poured into the car, briefly turning the Corvette into a fireball after it came to a stop in the middle of the track. Earnhardt quickly got out of the car on his own before being assisted by safety crews. The car continued to burn and was a total loss.

Earnhardt was to have driven in Sunday's ALMS race with veteran road racing driver Boris Said. The team withdrew the entry from the race after Earnhardt's crash.

Earnhardt has been hurt before in a race car. He sustained a concussion in a crash at California Speedway early in the 2002 season and hid it from NASCAR for five months, afraid it might keep him from racing.

It led to a poor season for Earnhardt and eventually to a new policy by NASCAR forcing drivers with head injuries to get medical clearance before returning to competition.

The younger Earnhardt was introduced to sports car racing in 2001 when he and Earnhardt Sr. co-drove a Corvette in the 24-hour race at Daytona.

Earlier this year, Earnhardt, fellow Cup star Tony Stewart and Britain's Andy Wallace combined to nearly win the endurance race at Daytona. Stewart was at the wheel of a Chevrolet-powered Crawford when a broken suspension piece nearly put him into the wall and cost the team victory just 20 minutes from the end.

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You are correct about the car not being blue...The only race the blue livery ran was in LeMans. Dale Jr and Boris Said drive the C5R in Yellow and black.

 

Besides Adams excellent information, David Palmeter keeps farily good records of the chassies numbers and race history of each chassie, plus pictures of each chassie/ car http://palmeter.com/C5RChasSNHist.htm

http://palmeter.com/

 

Yes the Palmeter website is excellant!

I was recently at Pratt & Miller and got all the info from them...What an awesome place!

Adam Boca