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#4337 - 05/28/19 10:37 AM C7.Rs 24 Hours of Le Mans - 2019  
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Corvette Racing is back across the Atlantic once again for a landmark appearance at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, its 20th consecutive appearance at the historic French endurance race.
Sunday’s annual Le Mans Test Day serves as a final dress rehearsal for the twice-around-the-clock race on June 15-16.
It is the only time that Corvette Racing and the rest of the 62-car field – can turn laps around the 8.48-mile Circuit de la Sarthe, a mixture of permanent race track and public roads.
This is a landmark year at Le Mans for Corvette Racing.
No team is on record as having made more than 20 consecutive appearances, and the program has won eight times in 19 tries.
What’s more, Corvette Racing’s Le Mans record also includes eight runner-up class finishes and nearly 100,00 racing miles completed.

That’s in addition to tens of thousands more miles in Le Mans testing and practice over the years on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. In fact, the preparation for a ninth victory has been a year-long process starting shortly after last year’s Le Mans with Corvette Racing’s pair of Chevrolet Corvette C7.Rs.
The most recent testing took place at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin over two days earlier this month plus sessions at the Chevrolet Simulator near Charlotte, North Carolina.

Corvette Racing’s lineup is a carbon-copy of last year’s Le Mans roster and this season’s endurance group. Antonio Garcia, Jan Magnussen and Mike Rockenfeller will drive the No. 63 Mobil 1/SiriusXM Chevrolet Corvette C7.R.

The trio finished third in class at the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring earlier this year in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.
In addition, Garcia and Magnussen are coming off a runner-up finish in their last race at Mid-Ohio.

In the No. 64 Mobil 1/SiriusXM Corvette, the trio of Oliver Gavin, Tommy Milner and Marcel Fässler will team together at Le Mans for the third year in a row.
Gavin and Milner have a third-place class finish to their credit at Long Beach in April.

Le Mans is the final race in the FIA World Endurance Championship Super Season.
There is a total of 17 entries from five manufacturers in the GTE Pro category.
Each of the six Corvette Racing drivers own exemplary records at Le Mans:

• Antonio Garcia: Three victories in 13 appearances– 2008, 2009 and 2011; runner-up in 2014; third place in 2017
• Jan Magnussen: Four victories in 20 appearances– 2004-06, 2009; runner-up in 2003, 2007, 2008 and 2014; third place in 2017
• Mike Rockenfeller: Two victories in nine appearances– 2005 and 2010; third place in 2012
• Oliver Gavin: Five victories in 18 appearances – 2002, 2004-06, 2015; runner-up in 2003; third place in 2001 and 2008
• Tommy Milner: Two victories in 10 appearances– 2011 and 2015
• Marcel Fässler:Three victories in 13 appearances– 2011-12 and 2014
The 24 Hours of Le Mans will air live on the MotorTrend Network with coverage of the Test Day, practice/qualifying and the race on Radio Le Mans.

ANTONIO GARCIA, NO. 63 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C7.R:

“Year after year we have gone to Road America to test, so you can see how the C7.R has developed from the last year.
You’ll know if you’ve made any improvements.
Knowledge of the Michelin WEC tire is a big thing, and we learned a lot at Sebring in the FIA WEC race.
Knowing that, we were able to focus a lot on that. Le Mans is always difficult to predict.

Sometimes it can be hot with no rain at all and other years it’s cold and wet all race. We need to be prepared for everything.
The good thing for Corvette Racing is we have the same car from past years and we have learned a lot each Le Mans.
It’ll be another tight fight in GTE Pro.”

JAN MAGNUSSEN, NO. 63 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C7.R:

“The way we are performing in the IMSA championship builds confidence for when we get to Le Mans.
Everyone will arrive with high expectations.
Everything needs to work that particular weekend. We’ve shown in IMSA that even when we are in a little bit of trouble, we can come together and get the best out of any situation.
That’s what we need to do for Le Mans. From the beginning, everyone needs to be at 100 percent otherwise it’s too hard to win unless you are at your best.”

MIKE ROCKENFELLER, NO. 63 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C7.R:

“The Chevrolet simulator is a great tool from Corvette Racing to help prepare for Le Mans. It was nice.
I drove a few laps in Elkhart Lake but it wasn’t easy because of the weather conditions.
But I was able to go to the simulator to drive Road America for a little while, which was good to feel how realistic and close it is.
Then we switched to Le Mans, which was the main target. Nowadays, simulators are so well-developed that you can really use it properly as a driver to prepare for racetracks or an event.
The Chevrolet one, honestly, is a very good one. It is very close to reality, so we are able to truly prepare the Corvette for Le Mans.”

OLIVER GAVIN, NO. 64 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C7.R:

“This season has been a season of what-ifs for Tommy and I on the No. 4 Corvette.
There have been a number of races this year we’ve had the right strategy, the right car setup, we’ve been working well as a team it seems like we’ve been able to unlock more speed from the car. That’s all encouraging and good.
We seem to have a better understanding of this Michelin tire, and we can take that knowledge into Le Mans and try to use it wisely in our test weekend and preparations for the race.”

TOMMY MILNER, NO. 64 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C7.R:

“Having raced the C7.R at Le Mans for six years now, we’ve had the chance to improve it year on year.
The last couple of years have given us a chance to more fine-tune things.
With some of the work we’ve done this year, we’ll have the best Corvette we’ve ever had at Le Mans. In some ways, Le Mans is a bit routine but we are all eager to get there and see how we stack up against our competition.

There is work to do; we haven’t been the fastest car there the last few years but that’s not for lack of trying. Everyone at Corvette Racing has done made an extra effort to improve our car in every way possible.
So I’m eager to get to the Test Day and see how these changes perform. From my perspective we’re in a good place.”

MARCEL FÄSSLER, NO. 64 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C7.R:

“It was good to be back in the Corvette at Road America.
The only downside is that the weather was mostly against us.
It wasn’t really fully raining nor was it dry; we had some mixed conditions which made it difficult to do a proper test.
But I did get some running on the rain tires and on the second day with slick tires. This was still a good test though.
At Le Mans, you can have these situations where there is rain coming down and then it starts to dry out.
So the better you know the car in those conditions, the easier it is to adapt yourself in the race.
So in that sense it was a successful test.”



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Corvette Racing at Le Mans (1st Place in Bold)

2000
No. 63 Corvette C5-R: Ron Fellows/Chris Kneifel/Justin Bell – 4th in GTS
No. 64 Corvette C5-R: Andy Pilgrim/Kelly Collins/Franck Freon – 3rd in GTS

2001
No. 63 Corvette C5-R: Ron Fellows/Johnny O’Connell/Scott Pruett – 1st in GTS
No. 64 Corvette C5-R: Andy Pilgrim/Kelly Collins/Franck Freon – 2nd in GTS

2002
No. 63 Corvette C5-R: Ron Fellows/Johnny O’Connell/Oliver Gavin – 1st in GTS
No. 64 Corvette C5-R: Andy Pilgrim/Kelly Collins/Franck Freon – 2nd in GTS

2003
No. 53 Corvette C5-R: Ron Fellows/Johnny O’Connell/Franck Freon – 3rd in GTS
No. 50 Corvette C5-R: Oliver Gavin/Kelly Collins/Andy Pilgrim – 2nd in GTS

2004
No. 63 Corvette C5-R: Ron Fellows/Johnny O’Connell/Max Papis – 2nd in GTS
No. 64 Corvette C5-R: Olivier Beretta/Oliver Gavin/Jan Magnussen – 1st in GTS

2005
No. 63 Corvette C6.R: Ron Fellows/Johnny O’Connell/Max Papis – 2nd in GT1
No. 64 Corvette C6.R: Olivier Beretta/Oliver Gavin/Jan Magnussen – 1st in GT1

2006
No. 63 Corvette C6.R: Ron Fellows/Johnny O’Connell/Max Papis – 7th in GT1
No. 64 Corvette C6.R: Olivier Beretta/Oliver Gavin/Jan Magnussen – 1st in GT1

2007
No. 63 Corvette C6.R: Ron Fellows/Johnny O’Connell/Jan Magnussen – 2nd in GT1
No. 64 Corvette C6.R: Olivier Beretta/Oliver Gavin/Max Papis – 14th in GT1

2008
No. 63 Corvette C6.R: Ron Fellows/Johnny O’Connell/Jan Magnussen – 2nd in GT1
No. 64 Corvette C6.R: Olivier Beretta/Oliver Gavin/Max Papis – 3rd in GT1

2009
No. 63 Corvette C6.R: Jan Magnussen/Johnny O’Connell/Antonio Garcia – 1st in GT1
No. 64 Corvette C6.R: Olivier Beretta/Oliver Gavin/Marcel Fässler – 4th in GT1

2010
No. 63 Corvette C6.R: Jan Magnussen/Johnny O’Connell/Antonio Garcia – 12th in GT2 (DNF)
No. 64 Corvette C6.R: Olivier Beretta/Oliver Gavin/Emmanuel Collard – 10th in GT2 (DNF)

2011
No. 73 Corvette C6.R: Olivier Beretta/Tommy Milner/Antonio Garcia – 1st in GTE Pro
No. 74 Corvette C6.R: Oliver Gavin/Jan Magnussen/Richard Westbrook – 14th in GTE Pro (DNF)

2012
No. 73 Corvette C6.R: Jan Magnussen/Antonio Garcia/Jordan Taylor – 5th in GTE Pro
No. 74 Corvette C6.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner/Richard Westbrook – 6th in GTE Pro

2013
No. 73 Corvette C6.R: Jan Magnussen/Antonio Garcia/Jordan Taylor – 4th in GTE Pro
No. 74 Corvette C6.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner/Richard Westbrook – 7th in GTE Pro

2014
No. 73 Corvette C7.R: Jan Magnussen/Antonio Garcia/Jordan Taylor – 2nd in GTE Pro
No. 74 Corvette C7.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner/Richard Westbrook – 4th in GTE Pro

2015
No. 63 Corvette C7.R: Jan Magnussen/Antonio Garcia/Ryan Briscoe – DNS (Qualifying crash)
No. 64 Corvette C7.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner/Jordan Taylor – 1st in GTE Pro

2016
No. 63 Corvette C7.R: Jan Magnussen/Antonio Garcia/Ricky Taylor – 7th in GTE Pro
No. 64 Corvette C7.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner/Jordan Taylor – 10th in GTE Pro (DNF)

2017
No. 63 Corvette C7.R: Jan Magnussen/Antonio Garcia/Jordan Taylor – 3rd in GTE Pro
No. 64 Corvette C7.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner/Marcel Fässler – 8th in GTLM

2018
No. 63 Corvette C7.R: Jan Magnussen/Antonio Garcia/Mike Rockenfeller – 4th in GTE Pro
No. 64 Corvette C7.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner/Marcel Fässler – 15th in GTE Pro (DNF)


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The GTE Balance of Performance tables for this weekend’s 24 Hours of Le Mans Test Day have been released, with three manufacturers receiving weight increases.
Ford, BMW and Porsche’s cars will each be heavier compared to last year’s GTE-Pro race, while Aston Martin, Corvette Racing and Ferrari have been handed weight reductions.

The biggest change sees Ford’s quartet of Chip Ganassi-entered Ford GTs taking an extra 12 kilos (only 26 Lbs) make a total of 1287 kg.
The pair of MTEK-run BMW M8 GTEs will have an additional 9 kilos taking them to 1280 kg, while only 4lbs (2 kilos) have been added to the Porsche 911 RSRs which are now 1271 kg.

Porsche scored a 1-2 in last year’s race with its retro-liveried Manthey cars, ahead of Ford’s No. 68 machine.
Each of the three cars to receive weight breaks – the Aston Martin Vantage GTE, the Chevrolet Corvette C7.R and the Ferrari 488 GTE Evo – will be 7 kilos (15 lbs) lighter than last year’s race.

The Corvette is the lightest in the field at 1242 kg, ahead of the Aston at 1251 kg while the Ferrari is 1284 kg.
Weight totals typically change after the Test Day and throughout the Le Mans event, as was the case last year when a BoP update was issued between qualifying and the race.

Elsewhere, BMW has been handed a decrease in turbo boost, while Ferrari and Ford’s corresponding turbo output has been enhanced.
The maximum onboard fuel allowances for the Test Day have yet to be confirmed.
Unlike regular-season FIA World Endurance Championship races, GTE-Pro at Le Mans is not subject to the auto-BoP.

Ford GTE-Am Starting BoP Issued

The Keating Motorsports Ford GT that will be competing in the GTE-Am category will run the Test Day at 1295 kg, making it 13 kilos heavier than its next-nearest competitor.
It means the Am-class Ford will run to a different BoP setting than its GTE-Pro counterpart, both in terms of weight and turbo boost pressure where it has received a three-millibar reduction.
The Ferrari 488 GTE, which has also been handed a three-millibar turbo drop, will change in weight from 1291 kg to 1282 kg compared to the 2018 race, while the Aston Martin Vantage GTE will also be lighter.

The first-gen Vantage, which is set for its final Le Mans appearance next month, is registered at 1249 kg which makes it 4 kilos lighter than last year’s contest and 14 kilos under its total mass for the previous Test Day.

Porsche has not received a weight tweak to its naturally-aspirated 911 RSR which won last year in the hands of Dempsey-Proton Racing.


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C7.R Corvette ended up quickest in GTE Pro won a 3m55.704s set by Antonio Garcia right at the end of the four hours of first session of test day

That jumped the #63 Corvette C7.R ahead of the best of the Ganassi Ford GTs in which Billy Johnson had earlier posted a 3m55.728s.

Porsche driver Gianmaria Bruni and Ferrari's Daniel Serra made it four marques within just over two tenths of a second at the top of the class times.

The quicker of BMW's M8 GTEs was only 12th in class, while the two Aston Martin Vantage GTEs rounded out the class order in 16th and 17th places.

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Ahead of its 20th consecutive appearance at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Corvette Racing clicked off eight hours of running on the race’s annual Test Day with its pair of Chevrolet Corvette C7.Rs.
Corvette Racing drivers were first and third in the 17-car GTE Pro category in the only running the Le Mans field will have before official practice and qualifying commence in 10 days.

Mike Rockenfeller was the quickest driver for Corvette Racing during the test session at 3:54.001 (130.240 mph) in the No. 63 Mobil 1/SiriusXM Corvette C7.R that he will drive with Antonio Garcia and Jan Magnussen. Perhaps no driver benefitted more from Sunday as Rockenfeller, who missed last year’s Test Day due to a previous commitment.

Teammate Tommy Milner was third-fastest with a lap of 3:54.036 (130.239 mph) in the No. 64 Mobil 1/SiriusXM Chevrolet Corvette that he shares with Oliver Gavin and Marcel Fässler.

Rockenfeller led a group of 12 GTE Pro cars within one second of each other, an astounding fact around an 8.4-mile circuit.
Le Mans is a mix of permanent race track and public roads, and the Corvette Racing teams spent the entire eight hours tuning and setting up the two Corvette C7.Rs for handling and a solid race package – not necessarily ultimate outright pace.

The pair of Corvettes combined to complete 166 laps and covered more than 1,400 miles.
The only issue was a minor mechanical one on the No. 64 Corvette C7.R that cost it a minimal amount of time in the garage.
Other than that, the Test Day was fairly routine.

This is a landmark year at Le Mans for Corvette Racing. No team is on record as having made more than 20 consecutive appearances, and the program has won eight times in 19 tries.
What’s more, Corvette Racing’s Le Mans record also includes eight runner-up class finishes and nearly 100,000 racing miles completed.

Le Mans is the final race in the FIA World Endurance Championship Super Season.
There is a total of 17 entries from five manufacturers in the GTE Pro category.

Each of the six Corvette Racing drivers own exemplary records at Le Mans:

Antonio Garcia: Three victories in 13 appearances– 2008, 2009 and 2011; runner-up in 2014; third place in 2017
Jan Magnussen: Four victories in 20 appearances– 2004-06, 2009; runner-up in 2003, 2007, 2008 and 2014; third place in 2017
Mike Rockenfeller: Two victories in nine appearances– 2005 and 2010; third place in 2012
Oliver Gavin: Five victories in 18 appearances – 2002, 2004-06, 2015; runner-up in 2003; third place in 2001 and 2008
Tommy Milner: Two victories in 10 appearances– 2011 and 2015
Marcel Fässler:Three victories in 13 appearances– 2011-12 and 2014

The 24 Hours of Le Mans will air live on the MotorTrend Network with coverage of practice, qualifying and the race on Radio Le Mans.

MIKE ROCKENFELLER, NO. 63 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C7.R FASTEST IN GTE PRO:

"It’s always good to be quick but as everyone knows, today does not’’ count. It counts on the Sunday when the flag drops and the race is over.
Today was really good for me to get used back to the Corvette.
Today I was able to get in a lot of laps and went through a lot of tires to get confidence, which helps.
For me personally, I’m very happy. In the afternoon, the track conditions were where they should be so we were able to collect a lot of data.
We are very happy with that.

"The Corvette C7.R is the exact same car from last year.
In the end, we tried to establish a base setup. We did a little bit of tuning but not much normal stuff like camber and dampers.
Then we really tried to learn about the compounds we have available from Michelin.
We tried to learn in which temperature window to use which tire. I was in that program, so that was quite nice!

"The GTE Pro class is really the place where there will be fights among the manufacturers just like years before.
We’re all looking forward to that. It’s super hard, and you have to fight for every tenth of a second. There is no margin for error."

TOMMY MILNER, NO. 64 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C7.R – THIRD-FASTEST IN GTE PRO:

"Overall, today was good for us. Like everyone here, you have a laundry list of items to go through…things that the engineers come up with that may work. This is our one opportunity to go through some of those options.
We certainly found some good things in the Corvette.
All of us drivers are generally happy with the car; there are always areas to improve. In the end, we’ve had a pretty smooth Test Day and we were able to check off a few boxes.
Obviously we’re quick on the time chart now, but we’ve been in this position in years past when everything seemed to change come race week. We’ll focus on ourselves, figure out what’s good for us and see where we stand on race week."

ANTONIO GARCIA, NO. 63 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C7.R:

"Things were good today. This is one of the few years where weather respected the test, and the conditions were very consistent.
Our running time was good; we were close to 100 laps. That means we have a lot of data to analyze.
We definitely ran through all our program we had planned and then some.
That’s always a good feeling. So I’m happy.

We need to gather everything, see what we have, where we can improve and then put everything together for the race.
Yes we were fastest today but I don’t think that means anything. I don’t know what the other teams are doing, so we need to wait until race week to see where everything is exactly.
This is a good starting point. We all hope the package we bring to the race will be enough."

JAN MAGNUSSEN, NO. 63 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C7.R:

"It isn’t at all important to be quick on the Test Day. We are here testing and going through our program, including knowing the WEC Michelin tires a little better. For us on the 63 Corvette, getting to know the tires at the WEC race at Sebring was a little bit of an advantage.
But this is only our second time so we still have a lot to learn. So far so good. I think everyone is pretty happy.
We didn’t have any issues on our Corvette throughout the day, which is good. We shouldn’t because this is such a well-proven car."

OLIVER GAVIN, NO. 64 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C7.R:

"It was a pretty good day for us.
We got quite a lot covered with Michelin and our WEC tire. We worked through our program well, I think.
There was a small issue in the middle of the day where we lost some time. But once we got on top of that, we fell back into our program. There were a number of slow zones and yellow flags that impede the process you are trying to go through. But we did get a lot done.
You could throw a blanket over everyone in our class. No one is out of this race and everyone will be in with a chance at winning.
We have to be smart and see what the race week brings."

MARCEL FÄSSLER, NO. 64 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C7.R:

"It was quite good to be back in the car. I immediately felt good and was good on pace.
The Chevy simulator tests we had recently helped a lot in being quick straight away.
But today was all about finding a good rhythm and testing different things for the race, try to find the limits, work on the Corvette to tune it in to the circumstances and collect data for next week.
All in all I felt pretty good in the car.
We can be happy with the work we did today."


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This year’s running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans is a landmark one for Corvette Racing. It is the 20th consecutive appearance for the program at the famed race dating back to 2000 – the longest current streak for a single entrant.
With eight class victories in 19 starts, Corvette Racing is one of the most successful teams in the history of Le Mans. Below is a handful of notes and statistics ahead of this year’s race…

• 1: As in one team, one manufacturer and one model of car for 20 years at Le Mans: Corvette Racing, Chevrolet and the Chevrolet Corvette.
• 3: Generations of Corvette Racing entries since 2000 – Corvette C5-R (2000-04), Corvette C6.R (2005-13) and Corvette C7.R (2014-current).
• 3: Number of wins for the Corvette C5-R – 2001, 2002, 2004.
• 4: Number of wins for the Corvette C6.R – 2005, 2006, 2009, 2011.
• 8: As in Chevrolet’s small-block V8. More than 100 million units have been sold worldwide and is the most successful engine in American motorsports.
• 8: Class victories for Corvette Racing at Le Mans – all since 2001.
• 9: Number of drivers who have won races at Le Mans for Corvette Racing – Olivier Beretta, Ron Fellows, Antonio Garcia, Oliver Gavin, Jan Magnussen, Tommy Milner, Johnny O’Connell, Scott Pruett and Jordan Taylor.
• 12: Manufacturer Championships for Chevrolet and Corvette Racing since 2001.
• 16: Number of GT Le Mans wins in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship for Corvette Racing since the start of 2014. That’s tied for the most among manufacturers and entrants in GTLM.
• 19: Number of victories for Corvette Racing’s lineup at Le Mans.
Oliver Gavin: 5 Jan Magnussen: 4 Antonio Garcia: 3
Marcel Fässler: 3 Tommy Milner: 2 Mike Rockenfeller: 2
• 21: Number of drivers to compete for Corvette Racing at Le Mans. Oliver Gavin leads with 17 Le Mans starts for the program while Jan Magnussen has 15.
• 21: 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 and Utah.
• 107: Victories worldwide for Corvette Racing – 99 in North America and eight at Le Mans.
• 218: Event starts by Corvette Racing since 1999.
• 95,221.25: Number of racing miles completed by Corvette Racing in its 19 previous trips to Le Mans. That represents 11,299 laps… or nearly four full trips around the Earth at its equator. The two Corvettes need to complete 4,778.75 miles to reach the 100,000-mile mark at Le Mans.
• 104,671: Approximate pounds of freight sent by Corvette Racing to Le Mans by air and by sea!
• 289,913.28: 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.


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Official YouTube Channel of the "24 Heures du Mans".
The 2019 race will run on June 15-16. Corvette LOVES the 24 Hours of Le Mans and this 2019 edition is the 20th participation in a row for the famous yellow American car !
Listen to team manager Dough Fehan – 24 Hours of Le Mans 2019.



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Corvette Racing’s 20th anniversary at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, program manager Doug Fehan offers his thoughts on how the uniquely American team has approached the classic French endurance race, and how, since its first appearance in 2000, the country has influenced the proud factory GT effort from Michigan.

“That it gets back to our early days before we ever came over here. And we knew, obviously, about the physical challenges of putting together a team, and getting them transported over here to compete.
But there were other challenges as well. We knew coming over here, there were some real horror stories about how Americans were treated, and there wasn’t much to those stories, although it was a challenge that we knew we weren’t going to be openly embraced as Americans, OK.

But we weren’t treated badly. We weren’t treated rudely, but we wanted to do things that would endear ourselves to not only the race, but to the town of Le Mans.
“Gary Claudio was our marketing manager and he was just a brilliant guy. I mean, he was a people person.
He could come up with stuff that he thought would work, and would help us overcome the stigma of being Americans and actually try and get us to a point where they liked us, because we knew that would be helpful.
I can remember coming over here the first year.

Quite frankly, the Corvette had a terrible reputation. I mean, it was pimps, prostitutes, and drug dealers who owned Corvettes in France. And that’s a pretty tough image to shake. So, he put together just a magical plan. We went to scrutineering and it was our very first time here.
“We knew that French people were crazy about cowboy, western movies. They love American movies, all American movies.
They watch the movies here in English, and they love cowboy movies. We’re going over there, we’re going to scrutineering and we’re all going to be in cowboy hats.

So we showed up in cowboy hats, and the fans, they didn’t know what to think.
They loved it, but they just didn’t know what to think. This was their first exposure to an American team like this.
“And so, I also set up a program. We were down in the center of [Place du] Jacobin, which is just a big old parking lot in front of the cathedral.
It’s kind of down in a hole, and the cars [entering scrutineering] arriving early would all be cordoned off and the people were not even allowed to get close.
Each team had stanchions set up to keep them away. You know, just shooing them away.

“I said, ‘We’re not doing that.’ I said, ‘We get down, and I want you to open that up and the first kid that comes along, I want you to open the door up, get them in the car and let his parents take a picture of him inside the race car.
And then line them up, and let’s do that for every kid that comes along before we get called up to scrutineering.’

“And I’ve got to tell you, the first parent was very reluctant, because they had spent their lifetime in Le Mans knowing you’re not supposed to get close to the cars. So when a team was inviting you to come to the car, you could see the reluctance to do that.
But that first dad, I’ll never forget him and his little kid was probably seven, eight years old, and the kid of course didn’t know any different. So he was excited. We got him in the car. David James put him in the car, his dad was snapping picture. Mom was in the background. Everybody was smiling.
The next thing you know, the parents were lined up, the kids were lined up, to get their picture taken in the Corvette. It was a great moment in time.

“We finish scrutineering. And so you line up to do the official photograph in that prescribed area for the yearbook thing that they do. And so we all line up, got our hats on, take the picture and of course they’re shooing us away, ‘Allez, allez, go, go, go, go.’ I said, ‘No, no, no, just one minute.’
Claudio had gotten each of us a beret and a fake mustache.
We took off the cowboy hats, put on berets and stuck on fake mustaches, and stood there and crossed our arms. The crowd broke out in applause.

“The tower, on which the photographers were all gathered, you know, that bridge that they erect, was shaking so badly because they were laughing so hard they couldn’t take a picture. So they had to wait to get that thing settled down, snap the photographs.
The audience is applauding. And the next day you look above the fold in La Sarthe, which is the regional paper, and our first trip there, there’s the Corvette team at scrutineering with berets and fake mustaches on.

“That was the first step in creating what we wanted to do, and that was traditions that would be tied to Corvette, because we knew the French culture was a tradition-based country.
Its architecture, its history, its art, its literature, they revere that here.
They have huge respect for that. Wonderful museums. They embrace the past.
“We wanted to do some things of course that would help endear us, and so when you look forward to all those things, Mike West playing the [the U.S. national anthem on] guitar at noon, that was huge here. That was huge. People love that.

They look forward to it. Mike then had moved down because he went to go do Cadillac program and some other things. We needed something to replace that.
“We had the train horn. We brought that in. We blow that every noon. That’s a tradition.
When we go to the driver parade, the beads like they do at Mardi Gras, that’s part of the tradition.
When we finish scrutineering, we hand out posters to the entire crowd. That’s our tradition.

We have a huge banner thanking the people of Le Mans. You’ll see that in pictures.
We unroll that and the drivers hold it up. ‘Thank you, people of Le Mans.’ That’s our tradition.
“That’s how we’ve ensconced ourselves. That’s how we’ve captured the hearts of the people here.
And this race is centered around the people of Le Mans. [Everything] happens at the racetrack, but believe me, these people own this race, the people who live here.
It’s been an amazing ride, and an amazing experience.”


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Corvette between them, they have nine class victories in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, which is one more than their team’s impressive win total heading into this weekend’s twice-around-the-clock battle on the Circuit de la Sarthe.

Corvette Racing drivers Oliver Gavin and Jan Magnussen have celebrated victories atop the Le Mans podium in front of a sea of fans three times together in 2004, 2005 and 2006. Gavin also won once prior, in 2002, and one time since, in 2015 with co-drivers Tommy Milner and Jordan Taylor in the No. 64 Corvette C7.R.

“The last stint that I did in the car in ’15, when it was raining for the last hour off and on around the back of the track, so many things start going through your head,” recalls Gavin, who this year shares the No. 64 Corvete C7.R with Milner and Marcel Fassler in the GTE Pro class.
“You start hearing sounds and vibrations you’re feeling, all kinds of crazy things.

“You keep just having to talk to yourself and think about all the other times you’ve been there and all the other experiences you’ve had and how things have felt in the past. It got us through, and we got it over the line and we got another fantastic victory.
That’s what we’re aiming for again in ’19.”

Magnussen’s fourth Le Mans victory came in 2009.
The Danish racer is going for a fifth on the 10th anniversary of that victory, co-driving the No. 63 C7.R with German driver Mike Rockenfeller and his full-season IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship teammate, Antonio Garcia, with whom he also co-drove to the win in 2009.

All of Magnussen’s wins at Le Mans have come as a member of Corvette Racing, which is a source of pride for the Danish racer.

“It’s fantastic,” he says. “To be part of a works team, a factory team, is fantastic at Le Mans. It’s really what you need to have a chance at winning. But to be with Corvette Racing, guys that I’ve worked with for so long now, is just a highlight of the year and what everybody is working for, to be successful at Le Mans.

“I’ve been fortunate enough that I’ve won my class at Le Mans four times, all four times with Corvette.
Hopefully, we can make it a fifth this year. It’d be fantastic to do with these guys.”

In addition to representing Corvette Racing, Magnussen and Gavin are part of a larger group – 28 drivers to be exact that are representing the WeatherTech Championship at this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans. Both are WeatherTech Championship GT Le Mans (GTLM) champions, as Magnussen won the title each of the past two years with Garcia, while Gavin won the 2016 title with Milner.

“It’s nice to go there and be competitive, because it shows how hard of a championship we have here in IMSA,” Magnussen said. “I do feel that our class in IMSA racing is the toughest class out there, and it’s nice to go there and be competitive and beat those guys from the WEC (FIA World Endurance Championship). It’s a cool thing to do.”

“We’ve still got the IMSA badge on our overalls,” added Gavin, who hails from England.
“If you come away managing to take the scalp of winning at Le Mans and bringing it back here to the U.S., I think that’s pretty special.

“The fans get a big kick out of that as well, I think, when they see you go over there and conquer that race and that event and also the other teams that are there. That’s something you always want to do.
You always want to put one over on the guys that are competing in that championship full time. That does give you a bit of an extra buzz.”

Speaking of buzz, Magnussen also takes pride in representing his native Denmark at Le Mans.
He says the turnout of Danish fans is larger at Le Mans than it is at any race actually held in Denmark.

“There’s a great tradition in Denmark for Le Mans with Danish drivers,” Magnussen said.
“It was John Nielsen that started the whole thing, and then Tom Kristensen after him and myself.
It’s just fantastic to feel the support that we get from the Danish fans.

“They make these massive camps down there. It just seems like, when you’re walking around, everywhere you go, you can hear somebody talking Danish.
Or, you can sort of barely make it out, because they’re usually really drunk. They go there and they have a fantastic party for, like, five days.”

A victory at Le Mans would bring another party to the next WeatherTech Championship race, the Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen on June 30.
Gavin knows that feeling well, having experienced it in 2015.

“You get such a reception,” Gavin said. “When we won in ’15 and we came back to the Watkins Glen weekend, that is our biggest Corvette Corral that we have all year is at Watkins Glen.
The reception that we got was pretty astonishing with all of those Corvette customers and owners.

“It was a very special feeling and you want to experience that again.
That’s what racing and competing is all about, those moments, that emotion, that special little click that you get with the fans and the owners and all the Corvette family.
You try to engage with those people and it’s very, very special.”


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EVENT SCHEDULE:

Wednesday, June 12

4 p.m.–8 p.m. local: Practice 1 (10 a.m.–2 p.m. ET / 7 a.m.–11 a.m. PT)
10 p.m.–Midnight local: Qualifying 1 (4 p.m.–6 p.m. ET / 1 p.m.–3 p.m. PT)

Thursday, June 13

7 p.m.–9 p.m. local: Qualifying 2 (1 p.m.–3 p.m. ET / 10 a.m.–Noon PT)
10 p.m.–Midnight local: Qualifying 3 (4 p.m.–6 p.m. ET / 1 p.m.–3 p.m. PT)

Friday, June 14 (no on-track activity)

Drivers parade

Saturday, June 15

9:00 a.m.–9:45 a.m. local: Warm Up (3 a.m.–3:45 a.m. ET / Midnight–12:45 a.m. PT)
3 p.m. local: Race Start (9 a.m. ET / 6 a.m. PT)

Sunday, June 16

3 p.m. local: Race Finish (9 a.m. ET / 6 a.m. PT)

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