Congratulations to Chevrolet and Corvette Racing!

Chevrolet and Corvette Racing took home seven awards at the American Le Mans Series’ annual Night of Champions awards banquet...

GT Manufacturer’s Championship

GT Team Championship

1st Place GT Drivers’ Championship

3rd Place GT Drivers’ Championship

Most Popular Driver

Green Challenge

MICHELIN GREEN X Challenge

BRASELTON, Ga. (Oct. 21, 2013) – Chevrolet and Corvette Racing had ample reason to celebrate at the American Le Mans Series’ annual Night of Champions awards banquet. The two organizations took home seven awards on the evening at Chateau Elan, the night after the ALMS’ finale – Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta.

1963 Harley J. Earl Corvette Sells for $1,500,000 at the Mecum Chicago Auction

Mecum Tops $18.6 Million In Chicago
Harley Earl Corvette leads all Sales at $1.5 Million

1963 Harley J. Earl Corvette (Lot S110)
Photo by David Newhardt, Courtesy of Mecum Auctions

Walworth, Wis. – Oct. 15, 2013 – The windy city welcomed Mecum Auctions with an exceptional sale and enormous crowds at the Schaumburg Convention Center in Schaumburg, Ill., this past weekend. With 965 cars crossing the block throughout the three-day event, 615 hammered sold for a 64 percent sell-through rate and $18,634,223 in sales. The one-of-a-kind personal driver of Corvette’s original designer Harley J. Earl led auction sales with a hammer price of $1.5 million.

Compare Side-by-Side Fuel Economy of the 2014 Corvette Automatic vs the Manual 7-spd

Photo: © GM

2014 Chevrolet Corvette 6.2 L, 8 cyl, Automatic (S6)
Miles per Gallon Premium Gasoline
Combined 20
City 16
Highway 28
Cost to Drive 25 Miles $4.78
Miles on a Tank 324 miles


2014 Chevrolet Corvette 6.2 L, 8 cyl, Manual 7-spd
Miles per Gallon Premium Gasoline
Combined 21
City 17
Highway 29
Cost to Drive 25 Miles $4.55
Miles on a Tank 340 miles

Source: U.S. Department of Energy
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/Find.do?action=sbs&id=34259&id=33907

2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Build Animation

2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Build Animation Animation of Corvette Stingray being assembled starting with the frame and ending with the body panels

Callaway AeroWagon Press Release

Callaway
AeroWagonUpdate


September 23rd, 2013


- AeroWagon Production Now Approved
- Place Your Order Now!







We are pleased to announce that AeroWagon component production has been given the “green light” and is scheduled to begin shortly. Consequently, AeroWagon Package availability is scheduled to begin around January 1.


The AeroWagon Package may be installed on either stock 2014 Corvettes or supercharged Callaway Corvettes. You don’t have to order a Callaway Corvette to take advantage of this unique styling. However, if you want a new, 610 bhp* Callaway Corvette, with or without the AeroWagon option, we’ll guide you through the ordering process and put you in contact with your local Authorized Callaway Dealer. If you already have a new Corvette on order, call us and we can work with your dealer to have GM ship your car directly to our California factory for package installation.

Racing Legend - Doug Hooper Passed Away

Content by Jim Gessner

10/3/2013
Doug Hooper passed quietly after a 8 month battle with kidney failure.

2007 Corvette Hall of Fame Inductee Doug Hooper began racing in 1959 behind the wheel of his 1957 Corvette. A regular participant at Cal Club and SCCA Events, Doug's achievements note him as a world-class racer and one of the first drivers to have brought the Corvette to the international stage as a winning racing machine following his win in the “Times Grand Prix” in Riverside, California on October 13, 1962.

Chevrolet introduced the new Sting Ray Split Window Z06 racing option in October 1962 at Riverside Raceway. Dave MacDonald, Bob Bondurant , Jerry Grant and Doug all drove Z06 Split Window Corvettes. Billy Krause drove the first Shelby Cobra ever to race that day, but the Mickey Thompson sponsored Z0-6 driven by Hooper won the three hour race of 46 cars averaging 84.06 mph in front of 78,000 spectators.

In December 1962, at a special Z0-6 brake test session at Sebring, Zora Arkus-Duntov approached Doug and asked him to test his new secret project – the Grand Sport. After the test, Doug was scheduled to co-drive the Corvette Grand Sport with Billy Krause at Lemans in June 1963.

Doug drove at the 3 hour Continental at Daytona in mid February 1963, and after the race, the GM sponsored race program ended.

In the summer of 63, Doug raced all over the West and had many wins and opened “Doug's Corvette Service” in North Hollywood , California and created one of the premier Corvette and Rochester Fuel Injection repair shops in the country.

In 1989 in addition to the shop and racing, he added to his busy life and became a Reserve Police officer for L.A.P.D.

In 1993, Doug continued to stay active in racing and was asked to prepare and tour the country in the original #001, 1963 Grand Sport – the same car he had tested at Sebring some 30 years earlier!