TEAM ZORA USA WEST ROCKS!

Posted on September 20, 2026September 20, 2026 by MartynL

Jake Angel & Larry Webb’s TEAM ZORA USA WEST ROCKS! at the SOVREN Fall Finale at Pacific Raceways. Jake Angel, driving the number 111 Team Zora USA West ’60 Corvette Fuelie, set a new Mile-Per-Hour record for C1 vintage Corvettes on Saturday, September 19th, at Pacific Raceways, in Kent, WA. Veteran road racer and Rochester Fuel Injection guru Larry Webb, and Jake’s son, Jaydin, supported the team’s effort. The new record eclipsed the old record by several miles per hour. Jake led th...

SPIRIT OF ZORA CORVETTE ROCKS 2026 MILLE MIGLIA

Posted on July 26, 2026 by MartynL

First-timers brave extreme heat, 144 Time Trials, narrow cobblestone streets and mountain roads for five days, and the SPIRIT OF ZORA CORVETTE ROCKS 2026 MILLE MIGLIA to finish the world’s most beautiful road race! A 1957 Fuel Injection Corvette, the Spirit of Zora, owned and driven by Michael Moss with John Cutrone navigating, has finished (371st place) the grueling five-day, 1,250-mile 1000 Miglia (Mille Miglia “Storica”) in Italy, on June 13, 2026. Mike and John en route through Brescia, ab...

THE FANTASTIC FOUR: CORVETTES AT LE MANS!

Posted on June 8, 2026 by MartynL

Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie, and THE FANTASTIC FOUR: CORVETTES AT LE MANS! Chevrolet and Corvette Racing will look to extend their run of success at the 24 Hours of Le Mans with four Corvette Z06 GT3.Rs that will contest the famed French endurance race on June 13-14. THE FANTASTIC FOUR: CORVETTES AT LE MANS! The quartet is the largest group of Corvettes at Le Mans in a decade, and all are under the Corvette Racing umbrella. The program has a stellar record at the race with nine class victo...

GM’S MARK REUSS CHECKS OUT TEAM ZORA USA CORVETTE!

Posted on September 8, 2024 by MartynL

Corvette historic racer Jake Angel blogs about sharing a common interest when GM’S MARK REUSS CHECKS OUT TEAM ZORA USA CORVETTE! On the last day of racing at the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, I had a well-dressed visitor in the paddocks. While I have been racing two Corvettes – ’60 Fuelie & a Corvette Challenge car – for years and follow GM Corvette Racing, I was not aware of who he was. He was wearing a white button-down shirt with a Corvette...

’57 CORVETTE FUELIE: BUILT TO RACE!

Posted on July 11, 2024 by MartynL

Zora Arkus-Duntov created RPO Options so anyone could order a ’57 CORVETTE FUELIE: BUILT TO RACE! In 1957, the Corvette was the first production American car powered by an engine producing one-horsepower-per-cubic-inch – 283 cubic inches, 283 horsepower - and fitted with an optional Rochester Ramjet Fuel Injection engine. Checking off the right boxes could net you with a four-speed transmission and Positraction rear axle. The ’57 Corvette is respected worldwide as one of the most signif...

JAN HYDE, MR. CORVETTE RACING

Posted on October 1, 2023October 1, 2023 by MartynL

The Registry of Corvette Racing’s - JAN HYDE, MR. CORVETTE RACING – was bitten by the Corvette ‘bug’ in 1964, resulting in the purchase of a ’60 Corvette Fuelie. And, he still owns it! Jan Hyde firmly believes that it was racing that saved the Corvette from an early death, and he has dedicated untold hours to preserving and celebrating its racing achievements from earliest times to the present. But it was probably his relationship with legendary privateer Corvette racer and SCCA B/Sport...

C8.R CORVETTE COPS CHAMPIONSHIP AT MONZA

Posted on August 28, 2023August 28, 2023 by MartynL

Catsburg, Keating & Varrone C8.R CORVETTE COPS CHAMPIONSHIP AT MONZA, takes FIA World Endurance Championship GTE Am title. Corvette Racing clinched the GTE Am Drivers and Teams titles in the FIA World Endurance Championship on Sunday with a fourth-place finish at the Six Hours of Monza (Italy) for the trio of Nicky Catsburg, Ben Keating and Nico Varrone. The No. 33 Corvette C8.R team finished ahead of its closest championship competitors to wrap up the program’s first title in WEC c...

CORVETTES IN COMPETITION

Posted on July 30, 2023 by MartynL

The evolution of racing America's sports car showcased in CORVETTES IN COMPETITION at the Petersen Museum. In the 1950s, sports cars were taking the nation by storm, and foreign manufacturers like MG, Ferrari, and Porsche were ruling the streets. But then, in 1953, Chevrolet unleashed a game-changer: the Corvette! Initially a head-turner, it needed a hero to match its looks with power. Enter Zora Arkus-Duntov, the Russian engineer who transformed the Corvette into a speed demon that could rival...

ICONIC CORVETTE RACECARS

Posted on October 5, 2022 by MartynL

Hagerty’s Cameron Neveu blogs about eight ICONIC CORVETTE RACECARS you should know, including Zora-Arkus Duntov’s legendary ’63 Grand Sports, above. In celebration of our first drive review of the rip-roaring new Corvette Z06, we got to cooking on a list of the coolest - and most unique - Corvettes to ever cross a finish line. After all, the package began as a low-profile effort to put competition parts in the hands of SCCA’s A-Production racers. This was back in the 1960s when GM elected to...

CORVETTE C8.R: UNSTOPPABLE STINGRAY

Posted on November 15, 2020 by MartynL

Corvette Racing takes GTLM Drivers and Team titles, plus wins the GT Le Mans Manufacturers Championship with the CORVETTE C8.R: UNSTOPPABLE STINGRAY. Corvette Racing photos by Richard Prince Chevrolet claimed the GT Le Mans Manufacturers title in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship yesterday after the Corvette C8.R started the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring. This is Chevrolet’s 13th Manufacturers title in IMSA GT competition since 2001 and concludes the mid-engine Chevrolet Corv...