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CORVETTE RACING AT IMOLA: Looking Forward
TF Sport Corvettes looking for pace after season-opening Qatar LM GT3 win
IMOLA, Italy (April 19, 2025) – TF Sport is all-eyes-forward following qualifying Saturday for the FIA World Endurance Championship’s Six Hours of Imola. The team’s two Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.Rs will start 10th and 16th in the LM GT3 class for Sunday’s second round of the season.
The No. 81 Corvette of Tom Van Rompuy, Rui Andrade and Charlie Eastwood will lead the TF charge. Van Rompuy and Andrade split the two qualifying sessions around the 3.05-mile, 20-turn circuit. Van Rompuy advanced from the initial 12-minute session at 1:44.307 (105.260 mph), and Andrade posted a 1:43.807 (105.758 mph) lap in the 10-minute Hyperpole dash for the 10 fastest qualifying cars.
Ben Keating, in the No. 33 Z06 GT3.R, was 16th and 0.656 seconds off Van Rompuy’s time in the first qualifying session. He, Daniel Juncadella and Jonny Edgar were the class winners at the season-opening race at Qatar – after starting 13th – for TF Sport’s maiden Corvette victory in the championship.
The Six Hours of Monza is scheduled for 7 a.m. ET / 1 p.m. CET on Sunday. Full live streaming coverage will be available on the FIA WEC app and the MAX app in the U.S. Radio Le Mans also will stream audio coverage of the race.
CORVETTE RACING
TF SPORT POST-QUALIFYING DRIVER QUOTES
DANIEL JUNCADELLA, NO. 33 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: "It’s a very disappointing weekend so far. I think the best position we’ve been all weekend is 16th out of 18 cars. The car actually feels very good to drive. The team is doing great and my teammates as well. Ben has never been here and is adapting very well to the track. In Qatar we were not the favorites and we managed to win. So there are still a lot of hopes to score at least some points for the championship. The car feels good, and I wouldn’t change anything. We have a nice balance. We need to find a way forward with strategy and avoiding mistakes.”
BEN KEATING, NO. 33 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: "I’m very disappointed with the result. I’m very happy with the work of TF Sport and the team. The car is handling amazingly well. Unfortunately I qualified almost P-Last – 16th of 18 cars. I’m used to being up front, so I’m clearly disappointed.
“It's a really fun track and an old-school track, which I love. It is challenging, which is good. I've enjoyed it. I'm making big leaps and gains every time I get in the car.”
CHARLIE EASTWOOD, NO. 81 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “It’s been pretty difficult. We’re definitely lacking some pace. I’m happy we got into Hyperpole with Tom. Rui was strong there but track limits cancelled both his last laps, which would have put us P7. Within a second of the pole time is probably the best we’ve looked all weekend. We’re missing a bit but hopefully the weather plays a bit of a part tomorrow so we can get back into the mix somehow.”
TOM VAN ROMPUY, NO. 81 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “It was a bit tough. I was happy to just put it in Hyperpole. It was really, really tight. We expected this because of the previous practice sessions. We hope to have a better car for the race than it seems now. Let’s hope on race pace and being faultless that we can move up tomorrow and end up in a good place. We made quite a few changes. It’s the first time we’ve tried a qualifying setup; normally we do it with the race setup, so that gained me another two- or three-tenths. We have to work very hard at it to get everything out of the car at the moment.”
CORVETTE RACING BY THE NUMBERS: Six Hours of Imola
• 2: Number of Corvettes entered in the full FIA WEC championship – the No. 33 and No. 82 Z06 GT3.Rs from TF Sport
• 3: Number of drivers in each of TF Sport’s Corvettes – Daniel Juncadella, Ben Keating and Jonny Edgar in the No. 33 Z06 GT3.R, and Charlie Eastwood, Rui Andrade and Tom Van Rompuy in the No. 81
• 3: Number of wins for the Corvette Z06 GT3.R already in 2025 – the Rolex 24 At Daytona in the GTD class for AWA, the FIA WEC’s 1812 Km of Qatar for TF Sport in LM GT3 and one round of GT World Challenge Asia for Johor Motorsports Racing
• 8: Wins in FIA WEC competition for TF Sport – including the 1812Km of Qatar for the No. 33 Corvette
• 30: Tracks at which Corvette Racing has won races – Baltimore, Charlotte Motor Speedway, COTA, Canadian Tire Motorsport Park/Mosport, Daytona, Detroit, Houston, Laguna Seca, Le Mans, Lime Rock, Long Beach, Lusail International Circuit (Qatar), Sepang International Circuit (Malaysia), Miami, Mid-Ohio, Monza, Portimão, Portland, Road America, Road Atlanta, Sebring, Sonoma, St. Petersburg, Texas, Trois Rivieres, Utah, VIR, Washington DC and Watkins Glen
• 68: Number of drivers in Corvette Racing entries since 1999. The latest to join the list are Matisse Lismont, Kiern Jewiss and Lorcan Hanafin of Steller Motorsport in GT World Challenge Europe; and Prince Jefri Ibrahim, Prince Abu Bakar Ibrahim and Jordan Love of Johor Motorsport Racing in GT World Challenge Asia
• 72: Years since Corvette was introduced to the world on Jan. 17, 1953 in New York City. A total of 300 cars were produced that year
• 141: Victories worldwide for Corvette Racing – 117 in IMSA, nine at Le Mans, four in the FIA WEC, 10 in GT World Challenge America and one GT World Challenge Asia
• 317: Event starts by Corvette Racing entries since 1999, starting with that year’s Rolex 24 At Daytona. No. 300 came in early August 2024 at Road America in IMSA
• 419,609.88: Total number of racing miles completed by Corvette Racing entries since 1999. To put that in perspective, Corvette Racing is more than halfway to the distance traveled by Apollo 13 – the longest manned spaceflight in history: 622,268 miles
Corvette Racing in Italy (wins in bold)
2022 – No. 64 Corvette C8.R: Tommy Milner/Nick Tandy (Monza) – 1st in GTE Pro
2023 – No. 33 Corvette C8.R: Nicky Catsburg/Ben Keating/Nico Varrone (Monza) – 4th in GTE Am (clinched GTE Am championship)
2024 – No. 81 Corvette Z06 GT3.R: Charlie Easwood/Rui Andrade/Tom Van Rompuy (Imola) – 7th in LMGT3
No. 82 Corvette Z06 GT3.R: Daniel Juncadella/Sebastien Baud/Hiroshi Koizumi (Imola) – 8th in LMGT3
Ryan Smith
Judy Kouba Dominick
CORVETTE RACING AT IMOLA: Looking Forward
TF Sport Corvettes looking for pace after season-opening Qatar LM GT3 win
IMOLA, Italy (April 19, 2025) – TF Sport is all-eyes-forward following qualifying Saturday for the FIA World Endurance Championship’s Six Hours of Imola. The team’s two Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.Rs will start 10th and 16th in the LM GT3 class for Sunday’s second round of the season.
The No. 81 Corvette of Tom Van Rompuy, Rui Andrade and Charlie Eastwood will lead the TF charge. Van Rompuy and Andrade split the two qualifying sessions around the 3.05-mile, 20-turn circuit. Van Rompuy advanced from the initial 12-minute session at 1:44.307 (105.260 mph), and Andrade posted a 1:43.807 (105.758 mph) lap in the 10-minute Hyperpole dash for the 10 fastest qualifying cars.
Ben Keating, in the No. 33 Z06 GT3.R, was 16th and 0.656 seconds off Van Rompuy’s time in the first qualifying session. He, Daniel Juncadella and Jonny Edgar were the class winners at the season-opening race at Qatar – after starting 13th – for TF Sport’s maiden Corvette victory in the championship.
The Six Hours of Monza is scheduled for 7 a.m. ET / 1 p.m. CET on Sunday. Full live streaming coverage will be available on the FIA WEC app and the MAX app in the U.S. Radio Le Mans also will stream audio coverage of the race.
CORVETTE RACING
TF SPORT POST-QUALIFYING DRIVER QUOTES
DANIEL JUNCADELLA, NO. 33 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: "It’s a very disappointing weekend so far. I think the best position we’ve been all weekend is 16th out of 18 cars. The car actually feels very good to drive. The team is doing great and my teammates as well. Ben has never been here and is adapting very well to the track. In Qatar we were not the favorites and we managed to win. So there are still a lot of hopes to score at least some points for the championship. The car feels good, and I wouldn’t change anything. We have a nice balance. We need to find a way forward with strategy and avoiding mistakes.”
BEN KEATING, NO. 33 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: "I’m very disappointed with the result. I’m very happy with the work of TF Sport and the team. The car is handling amazingly well. Unfortunately I qualified almost P-Last – 16th of 18 cars. I’m used to being up front, so I’m clearly disappointed.
“It's a really fun track and an old-school track, which I love. It is challenging, which is good. I've enjoyed it. I'm making big leaps and gains every time I get in the car.”
CHARLIE EASTWOOD, NO. 81 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “It’s been pretty difficult. We’re definitely lacking some pace. I’m happy we got into Hyperpole with Tom. Rui was strong there but track limits cancelled both his last laps, which would have put us P7. Within a second of the pole time is probably the best we’ve looked all weekend. We’re missing a bit but hopefully the weather plays a bit of a part tomorrow so we can get back into the mix somehow.”
TOM VAN ROMPUY, NO. 81 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “It was a bit tough. I was happy to just put it in Hyperpole. It was really, really tight. We expected this because of the previous practice sessions. We hope to have a better car for the race than it seems now. Let’s hope on race pace and being faultless that we can move up tomorrow and end up in a good place. We made quite a few changes. It’s the first time we’ve tried a qualifying setup; normally we do it with the race setup, so that gained me another two- or three-tenths. We have to work very hard at it to get everything out of the car at the moment.”
CORVETTE RACING BY THE NUMBERS: Six Hours of Imola
• 2: Number of Corvettes entered in the full FIA WEC championship – the No. 33 and No. 82 Z06 GT3.Rs from TF Sport
• 3: Number of drivers in each of TF Sport’s Corvettes – Daniel Juncadella, Ben Keating and Jonny Edgar in the No. 33 Z06 GT3.R, and Charlie Eastwood, Rui Andrade and Tom Van Rompuy in the No. 81
• 3: Number of wins for the Corvette Z06 GT3.R already in 2025 – the Rolex 24 At Daytona in the GTD class for AWA, the FIA WEC’s 1812 Km of Qatar for TF Sport in LM GT3 and one round of GT World Challenge Asia for Johor Motorsports Racing
• 8: Wins in FIA WEC competition for TF Sport – including the 1812Km of Qatar for the No. 33 Corvette
• 30: Tracks at which Corvette Racing has won races – Baltimore, Charlotte Motor Speedway, COTA, Canadian Tire Motorsport Park/Mosport, Daytona, Detroit, Houston, Laguna Seca, Le Mans, Lime Rock, Long Beach, Lusail International Circuit (Qatar), Sepang International Circuit (Malaysia), Miami, Mid-Ohio, Monza, Portimão, Portland, Road America, Road Atlanta, Sebring, Sonoma, St. Petersburg, Texas, Trois Rivieres, Utah, VIR, Washington DC and Watkins Glen
• 68: Number of drivers in Corvette Racing entries since 1999. The latest to join the list are Matisse Lismont, Kiern Jewiss and Lorcan Hanafin of Steller Motorsport in GT World Challenge Europe; and Prince Jefri Ibrahim, Prince Abu Bakar Ibrahim and Jordan Love of Johor Motorsport Racing in GT World Challenge Asia
• 72: Years since Corvette was introduced to the world on Jan. 17, 1953 in New York City. A total of 300 cars were produced that year
• 141: Victories worldwide for Corvette Racing – 117 in IMSA, nine at Le Mans, four in the FIA WEC, 10 in GT World Challenge America and one GT World Challenge Asia
• 317: Event starts by Corvette Racing entries since 1999, starting with that year’s Rolex 24 At Daytona. No. 300 came in early August 2024 at Road America in IMSA
• 419,609.88: Total number of racing miles completed by Corvette Racing entries since 1999. To put that in perspective, Corvette Racing is more than halfway to the distance traveled by Apollo 13 – the longest manned spaceflight in history: 622,268 miles
Corvette Racing in Italy (wins in bold)
2022 – No. 64 Corvette C8.R: Tommy Milner/Nick Tandy (Monza) – 1st in GTE Pro
2023 – No. 33 Corvette C8.R: Nicky Catsburg/Ben Keating/Nico Varrone (Monza) – 4th in GTE Am (clinched GTE Am championship)
2024 – No. 81 Corvette Z06 GT3.R: Charlie Easwood/Rui Andrade/Tom Van Rompuy (Imola) – 7th in LMGT3
No. 82 Corvette Z06 GT3.R: Daniel Juncadella/Sebastien Baud/Hiroshi Koizumi (Imola) – 8th in LMGT3
Ryan Smith
Judy Kouba Dominick
