TORQUE NEWS | Last week during the opening stages of the Roar Before the 24 at Daytona Motor Speedway, we reported that one of the Corvette Racing teams had experienced a fire, but with the first official event of the 2016 IMSA endurance racing season finished up – the Corvette Racing cars ended up turning in the 2nd and 4th quickest lap times in the GT LeMans class.
Each year, the first event of the IMSA North American endurance racing schedule – this year called the Weathertech SportsCar Championship – is the Roar Before the Rolex 24 at Daytona Motor Speedway. This event prefaces the Rolex 24 hour race at Daytona later this year and the Roar isn’t so much a race as it is an elaborate practice program that allows the teams to see how their cars and drivers stack up to the competition. Basically, the teams running the Rolex 24 can show up to Daytona a few weeks early, spending 3 days on and off the track, making changes to see how much they can improve relative to the rest of the field.
Things didn’t start off well for Corvette Racing, but with the quick work of their crew, the teams were able to finish up in the 2nd and 4th spots in the GT LeMans class.
