Category: Corvette News

September 22, 2012 No Responses

NASA Starts Work on Real Life Star Trek Warp Drive

Jesus Diaz “Perhaps a Star Trek experience within our lifetime is not such a remote possibility.” These are the words of Dr. Harold “Sonny” White, the Advanced Propulsion Theme Lead for the NASA Engineering Directorate. Dr. White and his colleagues...
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September 21, 2012 No Responses

LE MANS: Larbre’s Sao Paulo WEC Exclusion Explained

For the second FIA World Endurance Championship race in a row, Larbre Competition’s No. 50 Corvette C6.R was excluded from the results after failing post-race technical inspection. While an out-of-date fire extinguisher bottle saw Julien Canal, Patrick Bornh...
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September 19, 2012 No Responses

At 102, she changes oil, spark plugs on her 82-year-old car

Pop math quiz: If you cherished and maintained the same car for 63 years and you changed your own oil every 3,000 miles, how much money would you save? Answer: A lot. Just ask Margaret Dunning, a 102-year-old Michigan woman...
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September 18, 2012 No Responses

New Corvette TV show coming this January on the Speed Channel

New Corvette TV show coming this January on the Speed Channel. Watch the 3 minute teaser! Watch the 3 minute teaser! http://vimeo.com/30811817
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September 18, 2012 No Responses

A LITTLE GRAND SPORT HISTORY

Tux Hadler posted in Corvette Pal’s. In early 1962 Corvette Chief Engineer Zora Arkus-Duntov began a project known to the engineers of the Chevrolet Division as ‘THE LIGHTWEIGHT’. Arkus-Duntov and his engineers began a mission to meet the challenge of...
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September 18, 2012 No Responses

Corvette stolen 10 years ago found

MATT CAMPBELL FOUND AGAIN: The stolen 1968 Chevrolet Corvette V8 convertible. Wharf inspectors in Brisbane have uncovered a stolen 1968 Chevrolet Corvette V8 convertible after prying open the doors of a shipping container which had been sitting on the docks...
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September 17, 2012 No Responses

Corvette Museum hires architect for upcoming motorsports park, seeks sponsors

By  Scott Burgess RSS feed Posted Sep 17th 2012 3:31PM The pride and joy of Bowling Green, Kentucky, is about to get a lot bigger. The National Corvette Museum is planning to build a motorsports park and has already hired...
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September 16, 2012 No Responses

Corvette Racing sweeps ALMS GT Championships with VIR 240 victory

ALTON, Va. – Oliver Gavin and Tommy Milner won the American Le Mans Series GT Drivers Championship with a victory today in the VIR 240 at Virginia International Raceway. Their fourth victory in nine races clinched the GT Manufacturer Championship...
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September 15, 2012 No Responses

Corvettes Qualify Third and Fourth for ALMS VIR 240

Gavin and Magnussen Claim Second Row in Fast and Furious Qualifying at VIR ALTON, Va – Corvette Racing drivers Oliver Gavin and Jan Magnussen locked up the second row in GT qualifying for Saturday’s VIR 240 at Virginia International Raceway....
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September 15, 2012 No Responses

Second row start for Gavin at VIR for his 100th ALMS start

On its first visit to the scenic Virginia International Raceway, known to all as VIR, the American Le Mans Series GT qualifying session once again had everyone jumping up and down in excitement. Corvette Racing’s Olly Gavin – making his...
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