The Chevrolet Corvette, known also as the Vette or Chevy Corvette, is a front engine, rear drive, two-door, two-passenger sports car manufactured and marketed by Chevrolet across more than sixty years of production and seven design generations. As Chevrolet's halo vehicle, the Corvette is widely noted for its performance and distinctive plastic — either fiberglass or composite — bodywork.
William L. Mitchell was an American automobile designer. Mitchell worked briefly as an advertising illustrator and as the official illustrator of the Automobile Racing Club of America before being recruited by Harley Earl to join the Art and Colour Section of General Motors in 1935.
Robert "Bob" Bondurant is an American former racecar driver who raced for the Shelby American, Ferrari and Eagle teams.
John Cooper Fitch was an American racing driver and inventor. He was the first American to race automobiles successfully in Europe in the post-war era.
David George MacDonald was an American road racing champion noted for his successes driving Corvettes and Shelby Cobras in the early 1960s. At the age of 27 he was killed in the 1964 Indianapolis 500. In his four-year racing career, MacDonald competed in 118 races with 52 victories and 75 top-three finishes.
Wayne Taylor Racing is a sports car racing team that competes in the IMSA SportsCar Championship Prototype class. The team campaigns the No. 10 Konica Minolta sponsored Cadillac DPi-V.R.
The Chevrolet Corvette (C2) is the second generation of the Chevrolet Corvette sports car, produced by the Chevrolet division of General Motors for the 1963 to 1967 model years.
The Chevrolet Corvette C5-R is a grand touring racing car built by Pratt & Miller and Chevrolet for competition in endurance racing. The car is based on the C5 generation of the Chevrolet Corvette sports car, yet is designed purely for motorsports use. It became one of the most successful cars in GT categories, with wins at the 24 Hours of Daytona, 12 Hours of Sebring, and 24 Hours of Le Mans, as well as championships in the American Le Mans Series. The Corvette C5-Rs debuted in 1999 and continues to be raced to this day, although the C5-R has effectively been replaced by the Corvette C6.R.
Specter Werks/Sports, or SWS for short, is an American automotive prototype and fabrication facility based in Troy, Michigan. SWS specializes in race proven engine performance enhancements and creating specialty accessories for the C5 and C6 Chevrolet Corvette, the Cadillac CTS, the Pontiac Solstice, and the Pontiac GTO. It was opened in 1990 as a manufacturer of automotive upgrade parts and systems, such as high-performance light systems, spoilers, heat extraction hoods, wheels, ground effect style components, and complete body packages built to exceed OEM standards and specifications.
Pratt & Miller Engineering and Fabrication, also known as Corvette Racing is an automotive company formed by Gary Pratt and Jim Miller in 1989.
Peter Brock is an automotive and trailer designer, author and photojournalist from the United States of America, who is best known for his work on the Shelby Daytona Cobra Coupe and Corvette Sting Ray.
Richard Knight (Dick) Thompson, Jr. was an American racecar driver. A Washington, D.C. dentist by trade, he is known as "The Flying Dentist". He won numerous Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) championships and was inducted in the Corvette Hall of Fame. Thompson brought credibility to the Corvette as a world-class sports car. Active from the late 1950s until the 1970s, Thompson raced for several notable racers, including the factory Corvette team for John Fitch and Briggs Cunningham.
Donna Mae Mims was an American race car driver. She was the first woman to win a Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) national championship. Mims won the SCCA Class H championship in 1963. She was known as the "Pink Lady" of racing because she wore a pink racing helmet and coveralls and had the phrase "Think Pink" emblazoned on the back of her pink racing cars. Mims also competed in the third running of the Cannonball Run race in November 1972.
The April 7, 1963, race at Marlboro Motor Raceway was the opening race of the thirteenth season of the Sports Car Club of America's National Sports Car Championship.
The 1963 VIR National Cup was a sports car race held April 28, 1963, at Virginia International Raceway. It was the second event of the thirteenth season of the Sports Car Club of America's National Sports Car Championship.
The June 18, 1961, race at Road America at Elkhart Lake, WI was the sixth racing event of the eleventh season of the Sports Car Club of America's 1961 Championship Racing Series.
SCCA Pro Racing is the pro racing division of the Sports Car Club of America. SCCA Pro Racing was formed in 1963, the company is a fully owned subsidiary of SCCA.
Jordan Taylor is an American professional racing driver. He currently competes in the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship for Wayne Taylor Racing. He won the 2017 24 Hours of Daytona and the 2017 championship in the Prototype class of the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.
The Chevrolet Corvette C7.R is a grand tourer racing car built by Pratt & Miller and Chevrolet for competition in endurance racing. It is a replacement for the Corvette C6.R racing car, using the C7 generation Chevrolet Corvette as a base. The C7 road car was noted to incorporate development from the Corvette C6.R, thus those properties also carry over to the race car. The Corvette Racing C7.R races in the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship in the GT Le Mans (GTLM) class.
Ron McQueeney is an American photographer. He served as Director of Photography at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway starting in 1977 until his retirement in 2011.
