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CORVETTE RACING AT LONG BEACH: Southern California Street Fight
· First race in southern California for mid-engine Corvette C8.R
· Milner, Tandy coming off GTLM victory at Laguna Seca
· All four Corvette Racing drivers with previous Long Beach victories
DETROIT (Sept. 21, 2021) – Corvette Racing’s mid-engine Chevrolet Corvette
C8.R has been on a global tour since its debut in January 2020. It has raced
at racetracks throughout North America, plus Belgium and France since then.
Now the Corvette Racing program is set to make its return to southern
California this weekend for the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship’s
Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach – postponed from its traditional spring date
due to COVID-19.
Long Beach is the second street circuit event of the season for Corvette
Racing, following the Chevrolet Sports Car Challenge in June at Detroit’s
Belle Isle. Tommy Milner and Nick Tandy teamed for a GT Le Mans (GTLM)
victory there in a non-points outing in the No. 4 Mobil 1/SiriusXM Corvette
C8.R, and the pair is coming off a win at Laguna Seca two weeks ago up the
coast in Monterey.
Second went to GTLM Drivers Championship leaders Antonio Garcia and Jordan
Taylor in the No. 3 Mobil 1/SiriusXM Corvette. The duo has four wins on the
season and five pole positions, plus a runner-up finish at the 24 Hours of
Le Mans. The combined efforts have Chevrolet in the Manufacturers
Championship lead.
All four drivers have previous victories at Long Beach. Milner and Taylor
each of three while Garcia and Tandy have one each.
Chevrolet on Display at Long Beach
The return of Corvette Racing and Chevrolet to Long Beach will carry extra
flare with the inclusion of the Chevrolet Motorsports Display to the event
weekend. Located inside the Long Beach Expo Center, the Chevrolet
Motorsports Display will be open to fans throughout the weekend and will be
full of Chevrolet vehicles that spectators can learn more about during a
busy event.
The Chevrolet Motorsports Display opens at 8 a.m. Friday through Sunday.
Numerous Chevrolet vehicles and other highlights include:
• A 2022 Corvette Stingray IMSA GTLM Championship Edition coupe
• A 2022 Corvette Stingray convertible
• Additional Chevrolet products such as the 2020 Blazer, 2021 Camaro 1LE and
2021 Silverado Trail Boss
• A special display with various Corvette Racing artifacts
• An opportunity to receive a Corvette T-shirt
Corvette Racing will contest the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach on Sept.
24-25 from the Long Beach Street Circuit in Long Beach, Calif. Live
television coverage will air live on NBCSN at 5 p.m. ET on Sept. 25 with
live streaming coverage on TrackPass and NBC Sports Gold. Live audio
coverage from IMSA Radio will be available on IMSA.com, XM 202 and SiriusXM
Online 992.
ANTONIO GARCIA, NO. 3 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C8.R: "I think
there are a few things we can transfer from Detroit to Long Beach. In a way,
there are some similarities and those are mainly the walls! The track
surface and the way the circuit is laid out is a little different. We need
to work a little bit and look at some past race data. I'm sure we will come
up with a good setup to start. It won't be the first time for the C8.R on a
street circuit, so that's a good start. We can learn a lot from that.
"I've led in the Hairpin two years in a row and didn’t win either time!
Those are memories that you sometimes have - which races you've won and
which ones you've lost. Especially the way we lost those races will probably
stick in my head for a long time! A win there would definitely help
forgetting about those moments."
JORDAN TAYLOR, NO. 3 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C8.R: “Detroit was
a good lesson for us to have that weekend and understand what the C8.R is
going to be like on a street course. Long Beach is always a different
animal. It’s always difficult there with how limited the track time is and
keeping up with the track evolution. The Corvette guys have had so much
history there that we can understand how the track will develop so focus on
the car itself and what the drivers need. I have a lot of confidence. Long
Beach is always super-intense. I’ve been there many times in a prototype but
this is my first time in a GT class. It’s always looked like a proper street
fight in the GT classes so I’m sure it will be like that again this year, as
well.”
TOMMY MILNER, NO. 4 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C8.R: "Both Detroit
and Long Beach have track surfaces that are comparable. I think Long Beach
is a little more difficult because it used more as a public road throughout
the rest of the year, so it is quite dirty. As seems always the case, it's
very dirty and dusty, and we spend an hour of the first two-hour practice
cleaning the track. With Detroit under our belt – the first street race for
the C8.R – we can take some of those lessons, setup options and things we
tried to see how they carry over to Long Beach. Hopefully we can make the
most of an already compressed schedule and limited track time to get our
Corvette in a place that is comfortable for Nick and I."
NICK TANDY, NO. 4 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C8.R: "Long Beach is
always one of the events I look forward to most of the season. The actual
race is different in that it's a short race, a single stop and different to
what we normally do. The track is what I personally look forward to most.
It's a street circuit, yes, but it's quite different to some other street
tracks I've raced on before. You have that long open blast down Shoreline
Drive and some fast stuff in the middle sector as well. It's an enjoyable
track to try and get the car to the limit. We did have a good run at Detroit
in the No. 4 Corvette. We know the cars work well in this configuration.
It's been something I've looked forward to since our success at Detroit."
2021 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship – GTLM (After Seven of 10 Events)
Driver Standings
1. Antonio Garcia/Jordan Taylor – 2,562
2. Tommy Milner/Nick Tandy – 2,375
3. Cooper MacNeil – 2,314
4. Matt Campbell – 1,702
5. Augusto Farfus/Jesse Krohn/John Edwards – 1001
Team Standings
1. No. 3 Corvette Racing – 2,562
2. No. 4 Corvette Racing – 2,375
3. No. 79 WeatherTech Racing – 2,314
4. No. 24 BMW Team RLL – 1,001
5. No. 25 BMW Team RLL – 966
Manufacturer Standings
1. Chevrolet – 2,615
2. Porsche – 2,460
3. BMW – 1,052
4. Ferrari – 330
CORVETTE RACING AT LONG BEACH: By the Numbers
• 1: As in one team, one manufacturer and one model of car for 13
appearances at Long Beach: Corvette Racing, Chevrolet and the Chevrolet
Corvette.
• 2: Generations of Corvette Racing entries at Long Beach since
2007 –Corvette C6.R (2007-13) and Corvette C7.R (2014-2019). That number
increases to three this year with the first Long Beach appearance for the
mid-engine Corvette C8.R
• 3: Number of Long Beach race victories for Corvette Racing teammates Tommy
Milner and Jordan Taylor.
• 6: Number of drivers who have competed at Long Beach for Corvette Racing –
Olivier Beretta, Antonio Garcia, Gavin, Jan Magnussen, Johnny O’Connell and
Tommy Milner. That number will grow to eight this week with the additions of
Jordan Taylor and Nick Tandy
• 7: Number of Long Beach victories in 12 appearances for Corvette Racing –
more than any other IMSA entrant at the circuit.
• 9: Number of Long Beach sports car victories for Chevrolet. Throw in 11
IndyCar wins, and Chevrolet has claimed 20 victories in the event’s two
premier races.
• 13: Manufacturer Championships for Chevrolet and Corvette Racing since
2001.
• 18: Number of street circuit victories for Corvette Racing – more than any
other IMSA entrant at the circuit.
• 25: 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, Miami,
Mid-Ohio, Portland, Road America, Road Atlanta, Sebring, Sonoma, St.
Petersburg, Texas, Trois Rivieres, Utah, VIR, Washington DC and Watkins
Glen.
• 27: Number of GT Le Mans wins in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar
Championship for Corvette Racing since the start of 2014.
• 118: Victories worldwide for Corvette Racing – 110 in North America and
eight at Le Mans.
• 247: Event starts by Corvette Racing since 1999.
• 3,650.62: Number of racing miles completed by Corvette Racing in its 12
previous trips to Long Beach. That represents 1,855 laps around the
1.968-mile street circuit.
• 330,966.34: Total number of racing miles completed by Corvette Racing
since its inception. To put that in perspective Apollo 13 – the longest
manned spaceflight in history – covered “just” 248,655 miles when it went it
orbited the moon. Simply put, the program has raced to the moon… and then
some.
Corvette Racing at Long Beach (wins in bold)
2007
No. 3 Corvette C6.R: Jan Magnussen/Johnny O'Connell – 2nd in GT1 (Magnussen
fastest race lap)
No. 4 Corvette C6.R: Olivier Beretta/Oliver Gavin – 1st in GT1 (Gavin pole)
2008
No. 3 Corvette C6.R: Johnny O'Connell/Jan Magnussen – 1st in GT1 (Magnussen
pole)
No. 4 Corvette C6.R: Olivier Beretta/Oliver Gavin – 1st in GT1 (Gavin
fastest race lap)
2009
No. 3 Corvette C6.R: Jan Magnussen/Johnny O'Connell – 2nd in GT1
No. 4 Corvette C6.R: Olivier Beretta/Oliver Gavin – 1st in GT1 (Beretta
pole, fastest race lap)
2010
No. 3 Corvette C6.R: Jan Magnussen/Johnny O’Connell – 2nd in GT2
No. 4 Corvette C6.R: Oliver Gavin/Jan Magnussen – 9th in GT2 (Gavin fastest
race lap)
2011
No. 3 Corvette C6.R: Olivier Beretta/Tommy Milner – 5th in GT
No. 4 Corvette C6.R: Oliver Gavin/Jan Magnussen – 2nd in GT (Magnussen
fastest race lap)
2012
No. 3 Corvette C6.R: Jan Magnussen/Antonio Garcia – 4th in GT
No. 4 Corvette C6.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner – 1st in GT (Gavin fastest
race lap)
2013
No. 3 Corvette C6.R: Jan Magnussen/Antonio Garcia – 5th in GT
No. 4 Corvette C6.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner – 4th in GT (Gavin fastest
race lap)
2014
No. 3 Corvette C7.R: Jan Magnussen/Antonio Garcia – 1st in GTLM (Magnussen
pole)
No. 4 Corvette C7.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner – 3rd in GTLM (Milner fastest
race lap)
2015
No. 3 Corvette C7.R: Jan Magnussen/Antonio Garcia – 3rd in GTLM
No. 4 Corvette C7.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner – 7th in GTLM
2016
No. 3 Corvette C7.R: Jan Magnussen/Antonio Garcia – 9th in GTLM
No. 4 Corvette C7.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner – 2nd in GTLM
2017
No. 3 Corvette C7.R: Jan Magnussen/Antonio Garcia – 5th in GTLM (Magnussen
pole)
No. 4 Corvette C7.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner – 1st in GTLM
2018
No. 3 Corvette C7.R: Jan Magnussen/Antonio Garcia – 4th in GTLM
No. 4 Corvette C7.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner – 1st in GTLM
2019
No. 3 Corvette C7.R: Jan Magnussen/Antonio Garcia – 2nd in GTLM
No. 4 Corvette C7.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner – 3rd in GTLM
First race in southern California for mid-engine Corvette C8.R
CORVETTE RACING AT LONG BEACH: Southern California Street Fight
· First race in southern California for mid-engine Corvette C8.R
· Milner, Tandy coming off GTLM victory at Laguna Seca
· All four Corvette Racing drivers with previous Long Beach victories
DETROIT (Sept. 21, 2021) – Corvette Racing’s mid-engine Chevrolet Corvette
C8.R has been on a global tour since its debut in January 2020. It has raced
at racetracks throughout North America, plus Belgium and France since then.
Now the Corvette Racing program is set to make its return to southern
California this weekend for the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship’s
Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach – postponed from its traditional spring date
due to COVID-19.
Long Beach is the second street circuit event of the season for Corvette
Racing, following the Chevrolet Sports Car Challenge in June at Detroit’s
Belle Isle. Tommy Milner and Nick Tandy teamed for a GT Le Mans (GTLM)
victory there in a non-points outing in the No. 4 Mobil 1/SiriusXM Corvette
C8.R, and the pair is coming off a win at Laguna Seca two weeks ago up the
coast in Monterey.
Second went to GTLM Drivers Championship leaders Antonio Garcia and Jordan
Taylor in the No. 3 Mobil 1/SiriusXM Corvette. The duo has four wins on the
season and five pole positions, plus a runner-up finish at the 24 Hours of
Le Mans. The combined efforts have Chevrolet in the Manufacturers
Championship lead.
All four drivers have previous victories at Long Beach. Milner and Taylor
each of three while Garcia and Tandy have one each.
Chevrolet on Display at Long Beach
The return of Corvette Racing and Chevrolet to Long Beach will carry extra
flare with the inclusion of the Chevrolet Motorsports Display to the event
weekend. Located inside the Long Beach Expo Center, the Chevrolet
Motorsports Display will be open to fans throughout the weekend and will be
full of Chevrolet vehicles that spectators can learn more about during a
busy event.
The Chevrolet Motorsports Display opens at 8 a.m. Friday through Sunday.
Numerous Chevrolet vehicles and other highlights include:
• A 2022 Corvette Stingray IMSA GTLM Championship Edition coupe
• A 2022 Corvette Stingray convertible
• Additional Chevrolet products such as the 2020 Blazer, 2021 Camaro 1LE and
2021 Silverado Trail Boss
• A special display with various Corvette Racing artifacts
• An opportunity to receive a Corvette T-shirt
Corvette Racing will contest the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach on Sept.
24-25 from the Long Beach Street Circuit in Long Beach, Calif. Live
television coverage will air live on NBCSN at 5 p.m. ET on Sept. 25 with
live streaming coverage on TrackPass and NBC Sports Gold. Live audio
coverage from IMSA Radio will be available on IMSA.com, XM 202 and SiriusXM
Online 992.
ANTONIO GARCIA, NO. 3 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C8.R: "I think
there are a few things we can transfer from Detroit to Long Beach. In a way,
there are some similarities and those are mainly the walls! The track
surface and the way the circuit is laid out is a little different. We need
to work a little bit and look at some past race data. I'm sure we will come
up with a good setup to start. It won't be the first time for the C8.R on a
street circuit, so that's a good start. We can learn a lot from that.
"I've led in the Hairpin two years in a row and didn’t win either time!
Those are memories that you sometimes have - which races you've won and
which ones you've lost. Especially the way we lost those races will probably
stick in my head for a long time! A win there would definitely help
forgetting about those moments."
JORDAN TAYLOR, NO. 3 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C8.R: “Detroit was
a good lesson for us to have that weekend and understand what the C8.R is
going to be like on a street course. Long Beach is always a different
animal. It’s always difficult there with how limited the track time is and
keeping up with the track evolution. The Corvette guys have had so much
history there that we can understand how the track will develop so focus on
the car itself and what the drivers need. I have a lot of confidence. Long
Beach is always super-intense. I’ve been there many times in a prototype but
this is my first time in a GT class. It’s always looked like a proper street
fight in the GT classes so I’m sure it will be like that again this year, as
well.”
TOMMY MILNER, NO. 4 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C8.R: "Both Detroit
and Long Beach have track surfaces that are comparable. I think Long Beach
is a little more difficult because it used more as a public road throughout
the rest of the year, so it is quite dirty. As seems always the case, it's
very dirty and dusty, and we spend an hour of the first two-hour practice
cleaning the track. With Detroit under our belt – the first street race for
the C8.R – we can take some of those lessons, setup options and things we
tried to see how they carry over to Long Beach. Hopefully we can make the
most of an already compressed schedule and limited track time to get our
Corvette in a place that is comfortable for Nick and I."
NICK TANDY, NO. 4 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C8.R: "Long Beach is
always one of the events I look forward to most of the season. The actual
race is different in that it's a short race, a single stop and different to
what we normally do. The track is what I personally look forward to most.
It's a street circuit, yes, but it's quite different to some other street
tracks I've raced on before. You have that long open blast down Shoreline
Drive and some fast stuff in the middle sector as well. It's an enjoyable
track to try and get the car to the limit. We did have a good run at Detroit
in the No. 4 Corvette. We know the cars work well in this configuration.
It's been something I've looked forward to since our success at Detroit."
2021 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship – GTLM (After Seven of 10 Events)
Driver Standings
1. Antonio Garcia/Jordan Taylor – 2,562
2. Tommy Milner/Nick Tandy – 2,375
3. Cooper MacNeil – 2,314
4. Matt Campbell – 1,702
5. Augusto Farfus/Jesse Krohn/John Edwards – 1001
Team Standings
1. No. 3 Corvette Racing – 2,562
2. No. 4 Corvette Racing – 2,375
3. No. 79 WeatherTech Racing – 2,314
4. No. 24 BMW Team RLL – 1,001
5. No. 25 BMW Team RLL – 966
Manufacturer Standings
1. Chevrolet – 2,615
2. Porsche – 2,460
3. BMW – 1,052
4. Ferrari – 330
CORVETTE RACING AT LONG BEACH: By the Numbers
• 1: As in one team, one manufacturer and one model of car for 13
appearances at Long Beach: Corvette Racing, Chevrolet and the Chevrolet
Corvette.
• 2: Generations of Corvette Racing entries at Long Beach since
2007 –Corvette C6.R (2007-13) and Corvette C7.R (2014-2019). That number
increases to three this year with the first Long Beach appearance for the
mid-engine Corvette C8.R
• 3: Number of Long Beach race victories for Corvette Racing teammates Tommy
Milner and Jordan Taylor.
• 6: Number of drivers who have competed at Long Beach for Corvette Racing –
Olivier Beretta, Antonio Garcia, Gavin, Jan Magnussen, Johnny O’Connell and
Tommy Milner. That number will grow to eight this week with the additions of
Jordan Taylor and Nick Tandy
• 7: Number of Long Beach victories in 12 appearances for Corvette Racing –
more than any other IMSA entrant at the circuit.
• 9: Number of Long Beach sports car victories for Chevrolet. Throw in 11
IndyCar wins, and Chevrolet has claimed 20 victories in the event’s two
premier races.
• 13: Manufacturer Championships for Chevrolet and Corvette Racing since
2001.
• 18: Number of street circuit victories for Corvette Racing – more than any
other IMSA entrant at the circuit.
• 25: 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, Miami,
Mid-Ohio, Portland, Road America, Road Atlanta, Sebring, Sonoma, St.
Petersburg, Texas, Trois Rivieres, Utah, VIR, Washington DC and Watkins
Glen.
• 27: Number of GT Le Mans wins in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar
Championship for Corvette Racing since the start of 2014.
• 118: Victories worldwide for Corvette Racing – 110 in North America and
eight at Le Mans.
• 247: Event starts by Corvette Racing since 1999.
• 3,650.62: Number of racing miles completed by Corvette Racing in its 12
previous trips to Long Beach. That represents 1,855 laps around the
1.968-mile street circuit.
• 330,966.34: Total number of racing miles completed by Corvette Racing
since its inception. To put that in perspective Apollo 13 – the longest
manned spaceflight in history – covered “just” 248,655 miles when it went it
orbited the moon. Simply put, the program has raced to the moon… and then
some.
Corvette Racing at Long Beach (wins in bold)
2007
No. 3 Corvette C6.R: Jan Magnussen/Johnny O'Connell – 2nd in GT1 (Magnussen
fastest race lap)
No. 4 Corvette C6.R: Olivier Beretta/Oliver Gavin – 1st in GT1 (Gavin pole)
2008
No. 3 Corvette C6.R: Johnny O'Connell/Jan Magnussen – 1st in GT1 (Magnussen
pole)
No. 4 Corvette C6.R: Olivier Beretta/Oliver Gavin – 1st in GT1 (Gavin
fastest race lap)
2009
No. 3 Corvette C6.R: Jan Magnussen/Johnny O'Connell – 2nd in GT1
No. 4 Corvette C6.R: Olivier Beretta/Oliver Gavin – 1st in GT1 (Beretta
pole, fastest race lap)
2010
No. 3 Corvette C6.R: Jan Magnussen/Johnny O’Connell – 2nd in GT2
No. 4 Corvette C6.R: Oliver Gavin/Jan Magnussen – 9th in GT2 (Gavin fastest
race lap)
2011
No. 3 Corvette C6.R: Olivier Beretta/Tommy Milner – 5th in GT
No. 4 Corvette C6.R: Oliver Gavin/Jan Magnussen – 2nd in GT (Magnussen
fastest race lap)
2012
No. 3 Corvette C6.R: Jan Magnussen/Antonio Garcia – 4th in GT
No. 4 Corvette C6.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner – 1st in GT (Gavin fastest
race lap)
2013
No. 3 Corvette C6.R: Jan Magnussen/Antonio Garcia – 5th in GT
No. 4 Corvette C6.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner – 4th in GT (Gavin fastest
race lap)
2014
No. 3 Corvette C7.R: Jan Magnussen/Antonio Garcia – 1st in GTLM (Magnussen
pole)
No. 4 Corvette C7.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner – 3rd in GTLM (Milner fastest
race lap)
2015
No. 3 Corvette C7.R: Jan Magnussen/Antonio Garcia – 3rd in GTLM
No. 4 Corvette C7.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner – 7th in GTLM
2016
No. 3 Corvette C7.R: Jan Magnussen/Antonio Garcia – 9th in GTLM
No. 4 Corvette C7.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner – 2nd in GTLM
2017
No. 3 Corvette C7.R: Jan Magnussen/Antonio Garcia – 5th in GTLM (Magnussen
pole)
No. 4 Corvette C7.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner – 1st in GTLM
2018
No. 3 Corvette C7.R: Jan Magnussen/Antonio Garcia – 4th in GTLM
No. 4 Corvette C7.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner – 1st in GTLM
2019
No. 3 Corvette C7.R: Jan Magnussen/Antonio Garcia – 2nd in GTLM
No. 4 Corvette C7.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner – 3rd in GTLM
