Ever since the establishment of the IMSA’s United SportsCar Championship (now title-sponsored by WeatherTech) three years ago, Corvette power has won the drivers’, teams’ and manufacturers’ titles every year – not only in the top Prototype class, but also in the GTLM class that’s the top GT racing class in the series. And the folks at Chevrolet Racing have just added another season of domination to their trophy cabinet.
With the championship having concluded this past weekend with the Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta, the leaderboards were topped once again by Corvettes. The Action Express Racing team won the top Prototype class with their Corvette-powered Daytona prototype for the third year running. They also won the North American Endurance Cup once again, made up only of the long-distance rounds at Daytona, Sebring, Watkins Glen, and Road Atlanta. Though they missed out on the overall championship to their teammates Dane Cameron and Eric Curran, the defending championship pairing of Barbosa and Fittipaldi won the endurance cup for the third year running.
Whichever way you slice it, Chevy and Action Express came out on top. But that wasn’t all for the Bowtie brand, which also dominated the GTLM class. Oliver Gavin and Tommy Milner took top honors in the C7.R, bringing home with them the teams’ championship for Corvette Racing and the manufacturers’ title for Chevrolet.
What about the other classes, you ask? Chevy doesn’t compete in the bottom-rung GTD class, which was largely dominated by Audi this year. As for the Prototype Challenge class, that was won by Starworks Motorsport team of Alex Popow and Rogner van der Zande who – like every other team in the spec racing class – drove an Oreca FLM09 powered by… you guessed it: a Corvette engine.
Keeping track of all the various classes and categories in American sports car racing can be tricky. So let us make it easy for you: the winner is the Corvette, year after year.
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