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Milner, Tandy, No. 64 C8.R intention to maintain momentum from Monza class acquire
DETROIT (Sept. 6, 2022) – The very last time Corvette Racing frequented a ‘new’ track, it resulted in its very first victory as an entrant in the FIA World Stamina Championship.

It’s time yet again for the workforce to enterprise to a new location as the WEC resumes with the Six Hrs of Fuji at historic Fuji Speedway. It is the fourth round of this year’s GTE Pro championship with Tommy Milner and Nick Tandy the most the latest winners at Monza in the No. 64 Mobil 1/SiriusXM Chevrolet Corvette C8.R.

The 16-turn 2.84-mile Fuji circuit has a excellent blend of specialized and superior-speed sections that will set a high quality on engineering set up and method. 

As is the scenario at the majority of circuits on the WEC calendar, Corvette Racing can lean on the knowledge of past practical experience of Tandy at Fuji, exactly where he has produced two career WEC begins albeit in prototype machinery.

Although Fuji will be new to Milner, he does have knowledge racing in Japan as section of the Asian Le Mans Sequence far more than a 10 years in the past. That doesn’t suggest that he and Corvette Racing will go in blind as the engineering workforce has spent several days in Chevrolet’s Driver in the Loop simulator to take a look at and set up baseline setups with Milner aiding and finding to know the circuit.

Fuji will be Corvette Racing’s 32nd venue all through its approximately 25-yr run of racetracks all-around the planet with Bahrain nonetheless to go in the WEC’s time finale.

The No. 64 Corvette opened the WEC season with a potent second-position exhibiting at the rain-shortened 1,000 Miles of Sebring. Things ended up trending the suitable way for the Tandy/Milner pairing at the Six Several hours of Spa just before a pink flag just earlier the one-hour mark wiped out the team’s first planned pit cease and effectively place the Corvette a lap down ahead of ending fourth.

The 24 Hours of Le Mans was a cruel blow with the No. 64 C8.R eradicated whilst major just shy of the 18-hour mark. Spirits lifted in the crew following a thrilling class victory at Monza where the staff received a fuel-mileage race for its 1st WEC acquire exterior of Le Mans.

The Six Hours of Fuji for the FIA World Endurance Championship is scheduled for 11 a.m. JST Sunday /10 p.m. ET Saturday from Fuji Speedway in Japan. Qualifying is set for 2:40 p.m. JST/1:40 a.m. ET on Saturday. The race will air stay on MotorTrend with stay streaming coverage of the race and qualifying on the MotorTrend As well as application. Radio Le Mans will broadcast qualifying and the race.

TOMMY MILNER, NO. 64 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C8.R:
“I’ve carried out four times in the sim on Fuji. We’ve performed very a little bit of perform on it so far. It is a super great track. It is seriously fast in a good deal of sites. It’s special in some strategies in that there are a good deal of extended-period corners there. Car or truck equilibrium and tire everyday living will be super important. There are points we can do on the set up side to enable us place all of individuals items together. The sim also offers us a prospect to consider some truly big swings at it and experiments so to speak with setup to obtain anything with the car that we have not tried out right before. While it is pleasant for me to be in a position to push these tracks on the sim beforehand, I experience like it’s unquestionably a big support to go to these tracks and get in the automobile and get heading appropriate absent. It is for confident dashing up the mastering procedure for me and but it’s also helping us fairly a bit on automobile set up as nicely. I feel we’re quite delighted with our simulator plan and the positive aspects that it provides us.
Continuing momentum from Monza: “Just because we won Monza doesn’t imply we are on a streak or a roll or whichever. We have to operate as hard as we have to be as competitive as we probably can to get the most out of the car. Focusing on by yourself is constantly the finest system to get the most out of deal. Even though it is good to imagine we have been owed anything, we did a excellent position to get the motor vehicle in which we preferred it to be. The Corvette essentially from the initial apply was now truly superior we ended up capable to just tweak it a minor bit through the weekend. We have to go on on that route – performing seriously really hard on the simulator and in engineering as they constantly do to figure out strategies to get additional out of it, which we’re accomplishing. If we proceed putting in the tough perform, the benefits will carry on.”
NICK TANDY, NO. 64 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C8.R:
“Fuji is an F1-sort of circuit the place the area is quite easy. It’s on quite a flat location. But it’s a observe the place it is tricky to know the finest way to go about setup philosophy. There’s this huge straight where you need to have clearly straight-line velocity, but there are a pair other high-downforce corners. Switch Three there is a long proper that is a person of the fastest and most fully commited sections of racetrack wherever in the environment. Of class you want to trim your motor vehicle out to be speedy on the straight, but you can not afford to pay for to give up downforce in these places. It lends alone to great racing mainly because there is a slipstream result if you can remain close to the cars in front of you by means of the previous sector and down the get started/complete straight. There is also the weather conditions component. Fuji in September can see incredibly changeable ailments and the rain can come in immediately. I’ve only been there 2 times but it’s the observe where by I have the the very least amount of experience personally. It will be a person of our toughest problems as a crew, I be expecting, remaining new to the circuit for the first time.”
Motorsport society in Japan: “Japan is a motorsport state and they have a substantial subsequent. There often is a massive turnout for the Earth Stamina Championship. They want to see the autos, and they want to see the racing. I’m certain acquiring Corvette Racing for the initial time in Japan will be a large factor for the Japanese who have hardly ever occur to The united states or come to Le Mans to see the Corvettes. They’re generally tremendous enthusiastic about viewing the autos, and the individuals are super pleasant and respectful for everybody who will come in excess of to race in entrance of them. I’m wanting ahead to remaining in the automobile and with the team to clearly show them about Corvette Racing.”
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