Antonio Garcia and I are IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar champions for the second year in a row! But while it is Antonio and my name in the record book, when I say ‘we’, I really mean everybody at Corvette Racing.

To say it wasn't easy would be an understatement, even in the last two hours of Road Atlanta's Motul Petit Le Mans, we weren't sure it was going to happen.
With two and a half hours to go, our #3 Corvette C7.R made contact with a wall and, honestly, I was worried it was over.
The #67 Ford needed to finish third or worse if something happened to us, and they were running second at the time.

But, this crew is just amazing. The Corvette Racing team brought the car to the garage and fixed everything unbelievably fast. They changed the engine floor, fender, nose and more and the total pit-in to pit-out time was five minutes and 30 seconds!

We always say that the Corvette Racing team is the best in the business, but I think after this weekend everyone else will be saying it too.
The guys and girls on this team are why we wanted this title so badly, and I'm so glad we won it for them.

After the incident, we were ninth in the order, and the Ford was leading, so it didn't look good. But we moved forward and passed the Ferrari, putting us in eighth, and the Ford began to fall back. At the flag, we finished eighth and they were fifth. It wasn't pretty, but it was enough to win the title for Corvette and Chevrolet.

The other brilliant thing about Corvette Racing is we work as a team.
Great work in the pits got the #4 Corvette out in front of the Ford late in the race and Oliver [Gavin] and Tommy [Milner] did their utmost to help us in any way they could.

Corvette Racing has now won three championships in a row:
Oli and Tommy won three years ago and now it’s two-in-a-row for Antonio and myself.
What makes us even more proud is we’ve won against incredible opposition.
The Ford GT guys are proven race winners, Porsche is always tough wherever it races anywhere in the world, and the BMW team has really stepped it up this year with its new car.
Even if we hadn't held on for the championship, it was still an amazing day.
To honor the late Dr. Don Panoz, I got to drive the 1998 Panoz GTR-1 before the race. It was the first sports car I ever drove, at the first track I ever drove it, and it was an incredible tribute to the man that gave me my start in American sports car racing.