New race cars are trouble. No matter how much testing has been done before the racing debut, there will be problems. Testing is not racing. And if a manufacturer hasn't built that type of car before, there are likely to be even more problems.
Anthony Mantella appears to be calling time on his IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship GTD effort with the new Corvette Z06 GT3.R run by AWA. After two DNFs in the first two races of the 2024 season, including an alternator issue at Sebring that left the car sidelined after only two laps, Man.
The new-look Corvette Racing program is headed to one of the toughest and most extreme tests in all of motorsports – the 72nd running of the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring presented by Cadillac.
Bryan Sellers, Madison Snow and Paul Miller Racing may have given the GTD field fits last year as their competitors tried to figure out a way to beat them in IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship competition, but PMR is GTD PRO's problem now, and that means GTD will be wide open.