First let me apologize for telling this story again. But it is what it is :

Without going into too many details, in 2008 GM Gave us their blessing to run the "Baby GT class" then called the GT 2 Class for the FIA and ACO for LeMans. We had a sponsor and Riley was building the car with Homologation supplied and blessed by GM.

THEN came the GM Bankruptcy and their budget was cut for the GT1 class with 2 cars in it so they reneged on the FIA Homologation and gave it to Pratt and Miller and left us with almost nothing. Fehan and the Swamp got Michelin to hold back their tires from us so we could not get Michelin tires - the only tires that can really compete at the time.
So we had no FIA Homologation after the GM Bankruptcy, They got with the FIA and ACO and eliminated the GT1 class for 2010 and they did not want to race against another Corvette. OMG what if an outsider beat the $50 million dollar Factory effort???? Of course it was about the money and if we did well on less than $2-3 million then of course GM Corporate would put some
of that money in our effort. AND that was not going to happen. As long as there is only 1 Corvette team racing with 2 cars they can control the "Balance of Performance" and keep private teams out. SO no Corvette teams run LeMans other than the 1 team.
We were verbally accepted for the 2009 Le Mans race. The ACO came to the US and inspected our car and they said, "we are looking forward to see you in France. See you then"....... Until they went to Inspect the 2 Factory cars and suddenly we got a rejection letter. BUT not before Petit Lemans where LG Motorsports Out qualified the Factory Corvette team. We got the outside Pole
And the Factory Team got 3rd and 7th. Funny how that happens and we did it on Dunlop tires! No wonder they did not want to race against us.

So in 2018 the car count by brand in both GTLM were ----"10 Porsche, 8 Ferrari, 4 Fords, 4 Astons, 2 BMW, 2 Corvettes.
in 2006 when we were beating the $17 million dollar Cadillac CTSv effort they lobbied against Corvettes and got 190 pounds added to us. I lost the Driver championship by 1 point. to Porsche, But we beat Cadillac. GM can not let go of the control. Porsche builds a great car as does Ferrari then they let private teams buy them and race them and the Cream comes to the top. IT is a profit center for Porsche. Same for Ferrari. Then they loan out Factory drivers to help the best teams and they WIN races all over the world. They have a "Porsche Cup" and World Challenge and GT3 Porsche as does Ferrari.

Ask yourself where all the Corvette race teams are? Out of the racing business.

SO we head to Nurburgring to see what we can do. Our Corvette is still a Corvette and if we get Permission from the Track owners before GM lobbies against us, then we can get on the "Official Nurburgring Lap Record chart" IF NOT then we will do the time and document it and never make the official list.

Who said there was not Politics in Racing! Sometimes the truth is not pretty but facts are facts. (We sued GM and Michelin and made it to the 5th circuit Court of Appeals and lost 2-1 after we refused their settlement offer)

LG


We went from Kumho tires to Yokohama tires then Dunlop tires. Kumho gave us tires but they did not have a Lemans effort so they were a little short. Yokohama helped us only at Long Beach where Boris Said got hit and our car caught fire. Then after we fixed it we went to Petit lemans on Dunlop and out qualified the factory. AWESOME!