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CORVETTE WINS THE CHAMPIONSHIPSTEAMWORK IS KEY TO SWEEPING THE CHAMPIONSHIPS
The Corvette Racing / Pratt & Miller team capped Corvette's 50th anniversary in international road racing by sweeping the ALMS manufacturers, drivers and team championships in the season finale at Laguna Seca. A runner-up finish by Oliver Gavin and Olivier Beretta in the No. 4 Corvette
wrapped up Chevrolet's sixth consecutive manufacturers' title and gave the pair their second straight drivers championship.
The four-hour race was hard fought from the green flag to the checkered flag
as all four GT1 contenders finished within one lap of each other. The No.
009 Aston Martin won by 4.945 seconds over Gavin and Beretta, while the No.
3 Corvette of Johnny O'Connell and Ron Fellows took third place by .474
seconds over the No. 007 Aston.
"That was a tough race against a tough competitor," said Gary Pratt. "When
the No. 4 car was hit and then the caution came out I said to myself, 'This
is going to be our lucky day.' We got it fixed and went right back out there
and raced them again."
"Winning the American Le Mans Series championship puts an exclamation point on Corvette's 50th anniversary in international road racing," said Ed Peper, Chevrolet general manager. "We began the year with a victory in Sebring, the site of Corvette's first major win in 1956. In June we celebrated Corvette's fifth win in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the world's greatest sports car race. Now with this championship performance today at Laguna Seca, we've again shown why racing is such an important part of Corvette's heritage. On behalf of the entire Chevrolet organization, I congratulate the drivers, mechanics, engineers, support personnel and team managers of Corvette Racing. They're the best in the business, and they proved it again today."
