• Corvette C8.R riding four-race GT Le Mans win streak
• Garcia, Taylor winners of last two IMSA rounds
• Chevrolet enters with expanded lead in Manufacturer’s Championship
• Corvette Racing with 10 victories at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta
• Six-hour endurance race is team’s first since WEC at Circuit of The Americas

Corvette Racing returns to the endurance stage this weekend in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship on a four-race win streak and an increased margin in the series’ GT Le Mans (GTLM) category.

The TireRack.com Grand Prix at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta is the Corvette program’s sixth race of the year and fifth in the IMSA Championship.
At six hours in duration, it also marks the first long distance endurance race for the team since a February round of the World Endurance Championship and the first in IMSA since the season-opening Rolex 24 At Daytona in January also the debut of the mid-engine Chevrolet Corvette C8.R.

Much has changed since the early days of 2020, to say the least.
Racing is back since an extended shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and since that time no team has been on as big a roll as Corvette Racing.
The team has reeled off four consecutive victories three by GTLM Driver’s Championship leaders Antonio Garcia and Jordan Taylor in the No. 3 Mobil 1/SiriusXM Chevrolet Corvette C8.R, including two weeks ago at VIR.

Teammates Oliver Gavin and Tommy Milner in the No. 4 Mobil 1/SiriusXM Corvette C8.R have reeled off a win and runner up finish since Corvette Racing returned to action at Daytona in July.
Those results have moved them up to third in the GTLM Championship, and the combined efforts of the two Corvettes have Chevrolet comfortably ahead in the class Manufacturer’s Championship.

The four-race win run has been remarkable in the ways that the program has claimed victory.
Rather than having outright power and pace of its competitors, Corvette Racing has relied on execution and minimizing mistakes while capitalizing on those of others.

This weekend’s race takes the place of the Sahlen’s Six Hours at The Glen, originally set for late June at Watkins Glen International.
The move to Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta means Corvette Racing and the rest of the WeatherTech Championship will compete in two long distance events at the circuit in less than two months with Petit Le Mans scheduled for Oct. 15-17.

The Corvette Racing program has won 10 times at Road Atlanta, eight of those in long-distance endurance rounds.
Gavin is IMSA’s winningest active driver at the circuit with five wins, and Taylor is a past IMSA winner at the track, having won twice in a prototype.

Road Atlanta is one of the tracks at which Corvette Racing tested the mid-engine C8.R during its development phase, albeit more than a year ago. It has been a good omen so far with victories at Daytona, Sebring, Road America and VIR – all places where the Corvette C8.R was tested in the past.

Both the Corvette C8.R and the 2020 Corvette Stingray production car were developed simultaneously with a deeper level of technology transfer between the race car and a production Corvette than ever before, which helps contribute to many of its advancements.
As a result, the C8.R shares the highest percentage of parts between the production and race car than any previous generation.

The TireRack.com Grand Prix is scheduled for 11:35 a.m. ET on Saturday with live coverage on NBC Sports Network starting at 11:30 a.m. ET before continuing on Trackpass at 12:30 p.m. and returning to NBCSN at 2:30 p.m. IMSA Radio will stream Friday’s qualifying as well as the race on IMSA.com, which also will host live timing and scoring.

ANTONIO GARCIA, NO. 3 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C8.R:

“It’s true that we’ve won three of the last four races, but we cannot get complacent with a lot of races to go. In all of these races, our pace has been decent compared to the other GTLM cars.
What has impressed me the most during this run is the attention to details and how Corvette Racing always seems to have us in position to capitalize on mistakes. That comes down some to strategy, how we maintain track position and yes some luck as well.
But the results speak for themselves. Let’s see if that continues this weekend at Atlanta.”

JORDAN TAYLOR, NO. 3 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C8.R:

“I’m looking forward to going back to Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta. It’s a month earlier than we had originally planned, but it’s always good to go there. I’ve enjoyed success there before in both Prototype and GT cars, and it would be great to add to it this weekend with the C8.R.
The last two months have been pretty crazy not just with winning races but how we’ve done it. That’s the never-give-up attitude that Corvette Racing has shown for more than 20 years.
We try and find a way to be in the best position to take advantage when breaks come our way.”

OLIVER GAVIN, NO. 4 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C8.R:

“It’s been an up and down season for us on the No. 4 Corvette, but we’re going to a track I really enjoy.
There have been a lot of fantastic moments and race wins at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta in both sprint and long-distance races.
This six-hour race has a lot of potential for myself, Tommy and Corvette Racing. We were right there at VIR two weeks ago, and the two tracks share a handful of characteristics a good mix of mid- to high-speed corners and significant elevation changes.
I enjoyed driving the C8.R around Road Atlanta during our test program, and it should be that much better this time around.”

TOMMY MILNER, NO. 4 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C8.R:

“It will be interesting to race at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta twice in a short span. We have a lot of laps and data there, and fortunately some in the C8.R during our early testing program. The conditions for this weekend will be considerably warmer which should make the track greasier during the heat of the day Saturday. How we manage our tires and track position will go a long way to determining where we end up.
We’ve learned a lot about tire life and how this new mid-engine Corvette changes and evolves during a race. We’ll put that to good practice this weekend.”

2020 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship – GTLM Standings
Driver Standings
1. Antonio Garcia/Jordan Taylor – 165
2. Earl Bamber/Laurens Vanthoor – 146
3. Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner – 145
4. Fred Makowiecki/Nick Tandy – 143
5. Jesse Krohn/John Edwards – 141

Team Standings
1. No. 3 Corvette Racing – 165
2. No. 912 Porsche GT Team – 146
3. No. 4 Corvette Racing – 145
4. No. 911 Porsche GT Team – 143
5. No. 24 BMW Team RLL – 141

Manufacturer Standings
1. Chevrolet – 170
2. BMW – 159
3. Porsche – 156
4. Ferrari – 28

Corvette Racing at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta
1999
No. 3 Corvette C5-R: Ron Fellows/Chris Kneifel/John Paul Jr. – 5th in GTS
No. 4 Corvette C5-R: Andy Pilgrim/Kelly Collins/Scott Sharp – 4th in GTS

2000
No. 3 Corvette C5-R: Ron Fellows/Chris Kneifel/Justin Bell – 3rd in GTS (Fellows pole)
No. 4 Corvette C5-R: Andy Pilgrim/Kelly Collins/Franck Freon – 1st in GTS

2001
No. 3 Corvette C5-R: Ron Fellows/Johnny O’Connell/Scott Pruett – 9th in GTS
No. 4 Corvette C5-R: Andy Pilgrim/Kelly Collins/Franck Freon – 1st in GTS (Pilgrim pole)

2002
No. 3 Corvette C5-R: Ron Fellows/Johnny O’Connell/Oliver Gavin – 1st in GTS
No. 4 Corvette C5-R: Andy Pilgrim/Kelly Collins/Franck Freon – 3rd in GTS (Pilgrim fastest race lap)

2003*
No. 3 Corvette C5-R: Ron Fellows/Johnny O’Connell – 3rd in GTS
No. 4 Corvette C5-R: Oliver Gavin/Kelly Collins – 1st in GTS

2003
No. 3 Corvette C5-R: Ron Fellows/Johnny O’Connell/Franck Freon – 5th in GTS
No. 4 Corvette C5-R: Oliver Gavin/Kelly Collins/Andy Pilgrim – 3rd in GTS

2004
No. 3 Corvette C5-R: Ron Fellows/Johnny O’Connell/Max Papis – 2nd in GTS
No. 4 Corvette C5-R: Olivier Beretta/Oliver Gavin/Jan Magnussen – 1st in GTS (Gavin pole, fastest race lap)

2005*
No. 3 Corvette C6.R: Ron Fellows/Johnny O’Connell – 1st in GT1 (O’Connell pole, fastest race lap)
No. 4 Corvette C6.R: Olivier Beretta/Oliver Gavin – 2nd in GT1

2005
No. 3 Corvette C6.R: Ron Fellows/Johnny O’Connell/Max Papis – 6th in GT1
No. 4 Corvette C6.R: Olivier Beretta/Oliver Gavin/Jan Magnussen – 1st in GT1 (Beretta pole, Gavin fastest race lap)

2006
No. 3 Corvette C6.R: Ron Fellows/Johnny O’Connell/Max Papis – 4th in GT1 (O’Connell pole)
No. 4 Corvette C6.R: Olivier Beretta/Oliver Gavin/Jan Magnussen – 3rd in GT1 (Gavin fastest race lap)

2007
No. 3 Corvette C6.R: Ron Fellows/Johnny O’Connell/Jan Magnussen – 3rd in GT1
No. 4 Corvette C6.R: Olivier Beretta/Oliver Gavin/Max Papis – 1st in GT1 (Gavin fastest race lap)

2008
No. 3 Corvette C6.R: Ron Fellows/Johnny O’Connell/Jan Magnussen – 1st in GT1 (O’Connell pole, Magnussen fastest race lap)
No. 4 Corvette C6.R: Olivier Beretta/Oliver Gavin/Max Papis – 2nd in GT1

2009
No. 3 Corvette C6.R: Jan Magnussen/Johnny O’Connell/Antonio Garcia – 6th in GT2
No. 4 Corvette C6.R: Olivier Beretta/Oliver Gavin/Marcel Fässler – 4th in GT2

2010
No. 3 Corvette C6.R: Olivier Beretta/Johnny O’Connell/Antonio Garcia – 6th in GT
No. 4 Corvette C6.R: Oliver Gavin/Jan Magnussen/Emmanuel Collard – 1st in GT (Magnussen fastest race lap)

2011
No. 3 Corvette C6.R: Olivier Beretta/Tommy Milner/Antonio Garcia – 17th in GT
No. 4 Corvette C6.R: Oliver Gavin/Jan Magnussen/Richard Westbrook – 4th in GT

2012
No. 3 Corvette C6.R: Jan Magnussen/Antonio Garcia/Jordan Taylor – 2nd in GT
No. 4 Corvette C6.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner/Richard Westbrook – 12th in GT

2013
No. 3 Corvette C6.R: Jan Magnussen/Antonio Garcia/Jordan Taylor – 6th in GT (Garcia/Magnussen ALMS GT title)
No. 4 Corvette C6.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner/Richard Westbrook – 10th in GT

2014
No. 3 Corvette C7.R: Jan Magnussen/Antonio Garcia/Ryan Briscoe – 8th in GTLM
No. 4 Corvette C7.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner/Ryan Briscoe – 4th in GTLM

2015
No. 3 Corvette C7.R: Jan Magnussen/Antonio Garcia/Ryan Briscoe – 6th in GTLM
No. 4 Corvette C7.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner/Ryan Briscoe – 3rd in GTLM

2016
No. 3 Corvette C7.R: Jan Magnussen/Antonio Garcia/Mike Rockenfeller – 4th in GTLM
No. 4 Corvette C7.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner/Marcel Fässler – 3rd in GTLM (Gavin/Milner clinch GTLM title)

2017
No. 3 Corvette C7.R: Jan Magnussen/Antonio Garcia/Mike Rockenfeller – 2nd in GTLM (Garcia/Magnussen clinch GTLM title)
No. 4 Corvette C7.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner/Marcel Fässler – 4th in GTLM

2018
No. 3 Corvette C7.R: Jan Magnussen/Antonio Garcia/Marcel Fässler – 8th in GTLM (Garcia/Magnussen clinch GTLM title)
No. 4 Corvette C7.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner/Marcel Fässler – 2nd in GTLM

2019
No. 3 Corvette C7.R: Jan Magnussen/Antonio Garcia/Mike Rockenfeller – 4th in GTLM
No. 4 Corvette C7.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner/Marcel Fässler – 7th in GTLM
* Two-hour, 45 minute races

CORVETTE RACING AT MICHELIN RACEWAY ROAD ATLANTA: By the Numbers

• 1: As in one team, one manufacturer and one model of car for more than 20 years: Corvette Racing, Chevrolet and the Chevrolet Corvette.
• 3: Generations of Corvette Racing entries at Road Atlanta since 1999 – Corvette C5-R (1999-04) Corvette C6.R (2005-2013) and Corvette C7.R (2014-current). The new-generation Corvette C8.R makes its Road Atlanta debut this weekend.
• 6: Career victories at Road Atlanta for Oliver Gavin – all with Corvette Racing. His first came in 2003 (Grand Prix of Atlanta), and five have come in Petit Le Mans (most among active drivers).
• 10: Number of Road Atlanta victories for Corvette Racing dating back to 2000 – eight of those at Petit Le Mans.
• 10: Petit Le Mans wins for Chevrolet – eight in GT and two in Prototype. That ranks third among manufacturers in event history.
• 12: Manufacturer Championships for Chevrolet and Corvette Racing since 2001.
• 20: Number of GT Le Mans wins in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship for Corvette Racing since the start of 2014.
• 24: Tracks at which Corvette Racing has won races – Baltimore, 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.
• 29: Number of drivers for Corvette Racing since 1999.
• 111: Victories worldwide for Corvette Racing – 102 in North America and eight at Le Mans.
• 232: Event starts by Corvette Racing since 1999.
• 36,017.44: Number of racing miles completed by Corvette Racing in its 22 previous trips to Road Atlanta. That represents 13,539 laps or more than 560 trips around Interstate 285 – Atlanta’s Perimeter.
• 306,399.06: Total number of racing miles completed by Corvette Racing since its inception. To put that in perspective, Corvette Racing is nearly halfway to the distance traveled by Apollo 13 – the longest manned spaceflight in history – at 622,268 miles.

In a season that has already brought us two-hour and 40-minute races at Daytona International Speedway and Sebring International Raceway, next up on the 2020 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship schedule is another unfamiliar event in a familiar setting:
The Michelin Endurance Challenge Weekend at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta.

For while competitors and fans alike know the 12-turn, 2.54-mile roller coaster of a circuit like the back of their hands, the featured event’s six hour length is all new to a venue that has been home to the 10-hour Motul Petit Le Mans since 1998.

But if fans are unfamiliar with the sight of the checkered flag waving on a WeatherTech Championship race here before darkness has fallen, nearly everything else about the event will be familiar. Including where and how to watch it.

Turn 5

The panoramic view of cars sweeping downhill through The Esses, up to and through Turn 5 is among the iconic spectacles in the world of motorsports. And while the Jumbotron that traditionally towers over the spectator area won’t be in place for this event, you can still keep track of the action the rest of the way ’round the track on your mobile device via TrackPass on NBC Sports Gold, making this one of racing’s premier vantage points.
With concessions, restrooms, a shuttle stop AND souvenir stand a few steps away, small wonder
Spectator Hill ranks among the best spots to take in the action at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta.

Turn 10

If overtaking and trading a little paint floats your boat, we’ve got a spot for you: the terrace seating in Turn 10. The sharp left-right turns of 10a and 10b come at the end of a nearly mile-long straightaway, requiring drivers to whoa-down to 35 or 40 mph from upwards of 200 mph; just the ticket for demon late braking moves and side-by-side action, and it all unfolds in front of you in a spectator-friendly bowl complete bench seating.

Saving the Best for Last

Most roller coasters start with a bang: the biggest hills, the biggest thrills come right out of the starting gate.
Not Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta. While there are hills and thrills aplenty in the first couple of miles, it’s the last quarter mile that separates the men and women from the boys and girls.

We’re speaking, of course, of the downhill plunge from Turn 11 through Turn 12.
Snag a spot on the pad just outside the drive-over bridge at Turn 11 for a bird’s eye view of the cars falling off the edge of the world to complete every lap. If it looks insanely fast and scary, that’s because it is. All the moreso because nailing Turn 12 and getting a big launch down the start/finish straightaway is key to a quick lap.

After first practice

Second practice

Here is where GTLM will start the race after today's qualify

Race starts Sat morning at 11:30 AM EST and is a six hour race

Corvette Racing will start second and third in class for the IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship’s TireRack.com Grand Prix following a stunning GT Le Mans (GTLM) qualifying session Friday at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta.

Antonio Garcia and Tommy Milner just missed pole position in their Chevrolet Corvette C8.Rs by a whisker ahead of Saturday’s six-hour race.
Garcia’s best lap in the No. 3 Mobil 1/SiriusXM Chevrolet Corvette C8.R was a 1:16.181 (120.029 mph) effort that ended 0.014 seconds off Nick Tandy’s pole-winning time.
Milner was basically Garcia’s equal with a 1:16.212 (119.980 mph) lap in his No. 4 Mobil 1/SiriusXM Corvette just 0.045 seconds off the fastest GTLM lap.

The entire GTLM field was within 0.192 seconds at the end of the 15-minute session.
It sets up what should be a tantalizing race the first long-distance event for Corvette Racing since a February round of the World Endurance Championship and the first in IMSA since the season-opening Rolex 24 At Daytona in January, which also was the debut of the mid-engine Chevrolet Corvette C8.R.

Garcia and teammate Jordan Taylor enter as the GTLM Drivers’ Championship co-leaders, as does Chevrolet in the Manufacturers’ standings. The Garcia/Taylor pairing has won three times in the last four races including two in a row.
Milner and Oliver Gavin sit third in points with a victory at Sebring in July to their credit. Corvette Racing’s four-race winning streak is its longest since the 2014 season.

The Corvette Racing program has won 10 times at Road Atlanta, eight of those in long-distance endurance rounds.
Gavin is IMSA’s winningest active driver at the circuit with five wins, and Taylor is a past IMSA winner at the track, having won twice in a prototype.
Road Atlanta is one of the tracks at which Corvette Racing tested the mid-engine C8.R during its development phase, albeit more than a year ago.
It has been a good omen so far with victories at Daytona, Sebring, Road America and VIR – all places where the Corvette C8.R was tested in the past.

The TireRack.com Grand Prix is scheduled for 11:35 a.m. ET on Saturday with live coverage on NBC Sports Network starting at 11:30 a.m. ET before continuing on Trackpass at 12:30 p.m. and returning to NBCSN at 2:30 p.m.
IMSA Radio will have the race on IMSA.com, which also will host

ANTONIO GARCIA, NO. 3 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C8.R – QUALIFIED SECOND IN GTLM:

“I know where those hundredths of a second are!
That’s what hurts a little bit. When it’s that close and you don’t know how close they are, you have to guess where pole position is.
I knew pole was a 1:16.1 but I didn’t know where in that range of 1:16.1.
I knew I had the slowest 1:16.1 you could get, and I still improved by a hundredth on that last lap. I’m sure I could find a tenth on those laps but everyone else can do the same. I really enjoyed this qualifying where it’s all out and you’re really pushing to go for it.

It’s a shame it wasn’t enough and being that close. But we probably chose the best race to do this. We have six hours tomorrow to move up. It’s a good start. The Corvette is there. We had reasonably good practice sessions and good data.
The cars should be good in the heat so let’s see where we are in the heat. If we win tomorrow by a hundredth then I’ll be good with that!”

TOMMY MILNER, NO. 4 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C8.R – QUALIFIED THIRD IN GTLM:

“When it’s that close, you replay every single lap and you think,
‘If I had done the entry to that one corner the same way on my quick lap, that would have been pole.’ I’m sure every guy in the class had bits and pieces where if you put it all together, it would have been good enough.
Congrats to Nick and the 911.
They did better job of all of us. This was classic GTLM qualifying with everyone super close.
It’s a longer race tomorrow, so qualifying doesn’t matter too much. I think we feel really good about long-run pace based on practice today.
It’s certainly good to be toward the front today but I think I’m more excited about the race tomorrow and the pace we have.
It was fun to qualify.
This track really lends itself to close racing and close lap times between all of us. It should be a good race tomorrow.”

After 3 hours, 3 hours to go standing as of now

Nick Tandy is out front in GTLM despite the hood on the No. 911 Porsche 911 RSR-19 coming loose & forcing a pit stop.

Tandy is nearly 4 secs ahead of the No. 25 Team RLL BMW M8 GTE of Connor De Phillippi, with the sister BMW of Jesse Krohn running third.

A left-rear puncture for the No. 4 Chevrolet Corvette C8.R of Tommy Milner has dropped the car to last in class.

Race Finish

BMW Team RLL picked up its second win of the season and the first for the No. 25 BMW M8 GTE pairing of Connor De Phillippi and Bruno Spengler.
De Philippi emerged in the class lead following the final round of pit stops after a controlling run by the No. 911 Porsche 911 RSR-19 of Nick Tandy.

It marked Spengler’s first WeatherTech Championship class victory.

The No. 4 Corvette C8.R of Tommy Milner and Oliver Gavin finished second in class, ahead of the No. 24 BMW of Jesse Krohn and John Edwards, who completed the podium in third.

Defending class champions Earl Bamber and Laurens Vanthoor had a race to forget, with brake issues dropping the No. 912 Porsche out of contention just past halfway.
The No. 911 Porsche of Nick Tandy and Fred Makowiecki came home fourth after losing out in the final hour, with a late-race pit stop relegating the No. 3 C8.R to fifth in class.

Corvette Racing’s Oliver Gavin and Tommy Milner completed a stellar comeback to finish as class runner-up Saturday in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship’s TireRack.com Grand Prix at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta.

The duo drove their No. 4 Mobil 1/SiriusXM Chevrolet Corvette C8.R from nearly a lap down in the six-hour endurance race to nearly a second victory of the year in another highly competitive GT Le Mans (GTLM) class battle.
The result advanced Gavin and Milner to second place in the GTLM Drivers’ Championship standings, and it meant Chevrolet maintained its advantage in the category’s Manufacturers’ standings.

Antonio Garcia and Jordan Taylor finished fifth in the No. 3 Mobil 1/SiriusXM Corvette to retain their lead in the Drivers’ Championship with five races remaining. They hold a 14-point advantage to their No. 4 Corvette teammates.

The challenge by the No. 4 Corvette appeared in danger in the opening hour. Milner took the class lead just past the 30-minute mark and the race’s second restart following a full-course caution. He held the position until suffering a flat tire 64 minutes into the race, which brought out another caution.

After slipping back to sixth in class, Milner and Gavin fought for the next two hours in hopes of remaining on the lead lap at most times running anywhere from two to five seconds ahead of the class leaders. In fact, the entirety of Gavin’s time in the car was spent trying to remain ahead of the leaders much of it running against lead entries from other GTLM teams.

The race came back to the No. 4 with the race’s fourth full-course caution with two hours to go.
Gavin drove two full stints under green-flag conditions to keep his car in the hunt, and Milner re-entered with two hours and 50 minutes to go. After the final yellow-flag period, Milner was back on the tail of the GTLM field and retook the lead with 55 minutes to go.
A quick stop thanks to fuel savings with 51 minutes left saw him cycle back to second and ahead of two cars he had been running behind before the final stop sequence – for the stretch run.

The Garcia/Taylor pairing saw its two-race win streak come to an end on a challenging day where the midday heat played havoc with the handling and track conditions.
A chassis adjustment with less than three hours left helped the balance of the No. 3 Corvette for a final push, but a tire issue late in the going halted a podium challenge.

Corvette Racing’s next event is Sept. 25-27 at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.

OLIVER GAVIN, NO. 4 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C8.R FINISHED SECOND IN GTLM:

“It was a real battle the entire six hours. When I had Antonio behind me, I thought ‘OK he’s in a Corvette and will be a little bit nice to me!’
We managed to pull away from everyone else a little bit and managed it as best we could. It was still tough and hard. Then in the next stint it was the 911 we were battling, and I knew he wasn’t going to be anywhere near as nice. We also had to go to a slightly different tire set, and that made it a little harder.

But yes, it was some of the hardest driving I’ve ever done around here just to stay on the lead lap while we were praying for a caution. We finally got one, and Tommy drove brilliantly to get us back up there toward the front while saving some fuel.
We managed to do the undercut with everyone else in pit lane and nearly got the 25; it just looked like at the end that it was in a class of its own.

We’ll take second today. It gets us that much closer in the championship.
In terms of that, it’s a good day in the championship for Tommy, me and the No. 4 Corvette team. I have to take my hat off to the crew.
They did a phenomenal job on all the stops today. They were rock solid. It was a great day for Corvette Racing in that respect.”

TOMMY MILNER, NO. 4 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C8.R FINISHED SECOND IN GTLM:

“I’ve never had to push so hard!
The last two stints were such big, big pushes and giving it all we had. It didn’t look so great there for a little bit.
We were unlucky with the puncture early on, and that set us back quite a bit. Ultimately all we needed was that one yellow, and we got it to get us back in the hunt again. Our Corvette today was super fast.
I’m really happy with it the balance was really, really good all day long. It was a great strategy call at the end. It’s not often that works but I was able to save some fuel in the train of cars there; thanks to Jordan who let me go just before he came in to save me a little more time.

I was able to close the gap to the 24 and then threw everything at it for two laps before we stopped. That plus a shorter stop from fuel got us out ahead of the two cars ahead of us. We almost got ahead of the 25. A lot like qualifying, we’ll go back and say, ‘If I had just a second better on my in-lap or braking into the pit lane, maybe that would have put us just ahead.’

Even then the gap to them before we pitted was already big so trying to make up that much time and keep them behind would have been really hard.
I’m really happy with the race today. Obviously you want to win, but P2 is great for the points.
That’s what it’s going to take getting all the points we possibly can.
I think we may have had a little bit of a tire problem at the end so that yellow really helped us ultimately. But I’m definitely happy with today.”

ANTONIO GARCIA, NO. 3 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C8.R FINISHED FIFTH IN GTLM:

“Definitely not the result we wanted or expected today.
The things that broke our way over the last four races didn’t happen today, but that is how it goes sometimes.
Today was a classic long-distance GTLM race. I think nearly every car in the class led at one point, including us.
The heat of this race made things difficult in the middle, and by the end we didn’t have enough to catch up over a stint.

The good news is we have a healthy points advantage, and now Olly and Tommy are second.
That’s great for Corvette Racing and Team Chevy. We will move to Mid-Ohio and try to get back on the podium.”

JORDAN TAYLOR, NO. 3 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C8.R FINISHED FIFTH IN GTLM:

“This was a tough day. My stints in the heat were some of the most challenging conditions I think I’ve faced this year.
The combination of the heat in the track and the tire compound made it difficult, but we tried to hang in there as best we could.
The crew did a great job on pit stops; I don’t know how many spots we gained in the pit lane but it was a lot.

Things didn’t go our way today like they had the last two months.
We’ll go back, look at the data to see where we can make gains before coming back here in October for Petit Le Mans.”