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my buddy Keith cornette from Corvette blogger.com Keith is here every other week we keep you current and up toate on
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what's happening with America Sports Car Keith welcome back to the show it's the week of Memorial Day it's The Unofficial
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start of summer buddy yeah and finally it's here although it's been feeling like Summer's been here for a little while now with her heat in Florida but
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we are all good with it and yeah start a summer and it's like everything gets real serious now got good shows coming
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up we got Road Trips of course later on in the summer we've got the Caravans coming up so lots of good things
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happening it's going to be a busy summer that's for sure buddy absolutely let's start off like we always do with a Corvette production update from the
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Bowling Green assembly plant y we always got a lot to share including these latest production numbers last week The
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Sting race surpassed 23,000 for the model year and the Z6 just zoomed by
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6,800 and of course we could be at 7,000 z6s by the end of this week huh they are
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just really cranking them out right now that's all good news constraints have really dropped down to really nothing in
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the last couple order Cycles couple things here and there but nothing at all for eay or the ZO6 speaking of eay we
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are seeing some getting built in fact last Wednesday it looks like it was the best day yet for the e- was 16 produced
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in just one day wow so we're currently looking at still just about 375 or so of course these are numbers from last week
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but when you add everything up we're at 30,200 Corvettes for all three 2024
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models and of course with three more months Oro in production you know those numbers are going to really climb that's
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all good news there you know speaking again of the eays it also looks like there was an eay only allocation last
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Thursday that went out I didn't really do a lot of confirmation with a lot of dealers but several dealers reached out to me and said hey we got e-rays but
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only e-rays my thinking is maybe Chevy's now finally ready to start building these cars more and more yeah and in
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fact looking at that additional three months of production time and where we're at now I'm going to kind of make a prediction that we might see close to a
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thousand eays produced for 2024 model year if not even more all of a sudden we saw this at the Z6 is in their very
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first inaugural year where they were slow slow slow and then all of a sudden it just took off there at the again yeah
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I'm anticipating that we might be getting out of this ramp up phase and they'll actually start building some cars to get us to that thousand car
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Milestone that's just my guess but I think that's going to happen it feels like we're ready to break out for sure buddy also we got the buildout dates for
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some of those cancel colors for 20123 into 2024 didn't we yeah so last time we
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spoke Steve we were pretty excited because it appeared we had some dates for the end of the 2024 and the start of the 20 25s which we were told could
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start on July 15th this actually came as part of a GM communication letter to a dealer but now we're
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learning that Chevy has this list of build out dates for the cancel colors which basically gives us the last dates
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that you can order these cars before they go away those colors go away forever they go on through August so
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that's what again our feeling is another 3 months or so of production we'll give you some of these dates here we've got
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amplify orange that final date is 627 accelerate yellow is 7-Eleven silver
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flare 7-Eleven cacti July 25th carbon flash on August 1st ceramic Matrix gray
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August 1st and then the final one Hypersonic gray on August 8th so you know if you take an order on August 8
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and then four to six weeks to build we're looking at early mid-september time of when the 202s might start we're
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thinking again you know and that's again when they started last year the sting race started in mid September as well it's still a full year of production and
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going to be a lot of cars made I think yeah definitely buddy that sounds good it's pretty healthy year that's for sure
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also we saw that Chevrolet launched an update for the building buy configurator didn't they what are the updates that
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they put in there yeah so on May 15th I go on to chevrolet.com to build an eray it's what I do when I'm bored St it's
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the same damn car every time it ends up being the same car so nothing changing there but as soon as I got on to it on
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May 15th I saw that the interface was much different just the way they move things around the headers were different
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the menu bar was different and also they they changed the name this used to be just called the build and price configurator and now they're calling it
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The build and buy because when you're all done with your build it actually at the very end it shows you available cars
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offer to dealers close to you wow so it might not be perfect but it'll actually show you like this one has only three
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differences compared to the one that you just built and then it shows you the price and then if you want to contact that dealer so that part's a lot
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different and then the other really big change I think is why it looks good on the desktop this looks really good on my
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iPhone and I'm assuming Android probably the same reason because the way they have it structured as you're building this car on your phone you got the car
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on the top and then the menus actually slide underneath the photo as you're scrolling scrolling so and that's the
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key here because before you had like exterior you had wheels and now the wheels are now under the exterior option
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so when you're in any of these tabs you just keep scrolling down and they're just all stacked on each other now so like the exterior like the paints and
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then you have your stripes convertible you can pick your roof whether the Nay cells are carbon flash or not and then
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it just keeps going on down the list and you get your wheels and then your brakes so everything on the exterior is all in that one tab now and then also with the
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options everything's really stacked up there like know first year specific packages like z51 or the z07 those are
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Then followed by your regular options like do you want the body color vents do you want the Chrome emblems or the black
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emblem so just keep going through those but it looks really good on the phone so if you haven't really done any of this on the phone or you looking to buy a car
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try it on the phone because it's a good upgrade and I think you'll like it boy thanks a lot buddy now I'm going to have to go out and build another car well you
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know it's time to start looking around you've had that car for a couple years yeah I need a ZR1 don't I
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we could all use those Z1 exactly hey you know I just realized this buddy with
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the Malibu that was being cancelled the Corvette is really the only quote unquote car left in the Chevrolet lineup
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Steve it's a car company that no longer makes cars actually yeah this is crazy this
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kind of occurred to me we heard that the Malibu is going to go away later this year which is kind of sad for me I have a little bit of a personal connection
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with the Malibu my oldest son got a 2009 Malibu when he graduated from college and an actually that car is still going
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strong today huh over the years we've seen these sedans just going first it was the Impala of course the Camaro ends
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in 20124 now the Malibu and of course that leaves Corvette is technically the only car in the lineup the rest are all
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trucks SUVs Vans and crossovers this is our fault I guess because people are choosing SUVs and trucks more and more
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these days but also kind of the regulations you go back 20 or 30 years and automakers they had a fuel economy
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penalty on sedans but that wasn't there for trucks and so then you had all SUVs
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that are being marketed as trucks to get around these fuel economy numbers and so that's why they became more popular and
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eventually people just like all the storage you have you know sitting up a little bit higher they feel like they're a little bit safer than being down lower
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with a car so we've just seen these major habits of Automotive buying change over the last 20 or 30 years and no
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one's making sedams these days wow that's kind of crazy isn't it think about that Corvette is the only quote
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unquote car left in the whole Chevrolet lineup I never would have seen that come and 20 years ago that's amazing and also
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buddy we have the top choices for both the stingray and the ZO6 for 2024 now that the model year is almost over
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during the NCM batch the Corvette team shared some of the production information for the current 2024 model year when they gather up this info they
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showed as of April 1st there were 3,196 Corvettes these cars have been
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produced already or on the order books are scheduled for production the way they break that down currently 76% of
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those cars 22948 are stingrays 22% are z6s which is
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6,644 and then just 2% e-rays at 604 Stingray owners we're going to cover
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some of the options and how they're outfitting their cars right now the coups are leading the convertibles by 58
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to 42% and the top selling Stingray overall is now the 2LT Coupe we've seen
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5,550 of those produced and in fact the 2LT trim package is The Sweet Spot among
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Corvette buyers for the sting rake when these body styles are combined the two LTS accounted for 9,735 units followed
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by 6,933 LTS and 6,311 1 LTS that's the
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number I think to watch is the 1 LTS Yeah we actually have seen them on constraint I think Chevy's trying to
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limit because a lot of dealers now are ordering for dealer stock and what they do is they get in some cheap onlt so
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they can say see we've got Stingray starting at 73 or 72 or 67 I saw one
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dealer out of Miami bomon Chevrolet does a lot of 1 LTS they're selling them for like 63 wow you know $7,000 off of MSRP
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but it's that price number they get so that's why we see a bunch of those 1 LTS moving on to top colors for the Stingrays arctic white 15% torch red 14%
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black at 11% Red Mist at 11% and then Hypersonic gray which is going away that
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was the fifth color and that came in at 8% huh the bottom three colors all ended up at 3% of production they're cacti
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green the silver flare and the accelerate yellow of course all three of those colors are set to be replaced next year anyways as well right and then
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finally for Stingray 50% of buyers are getting the standard wheel and either silver or the carbon flash wheel and
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those gloss flat q9 eyes we always talk about the being on constraint y they're the third popular wheel at 21% again we
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see why they keep just running out of those they keep just selling more than they actually thought they would I think so we did see some price changes on a
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couple of the other gloss black wheels to hopefully offer up those but people like those gloss black wheels so they're selling pretty well there yep that's
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pretty cool how about the z6s again we mentioned 22% of all 2024 r z6s that
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number again 6,644 is what we see on the books these cars are selling at 50/50 exactly coups
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and convertibles now I'm sure one of them's a little bit ahead of the other but we don't know what that is you know 2023 actually the Convertibles were the
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most popular model for the Z6 and they actually sold the coups by about 200 cars now I think a lot of that was the
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70th Anniversary package majority of the cars for the Z06 70th Anniversary
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package were convertible so I think that's why I got the bump but yeah it's 50/50 right now which again is just kind
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of amazing to me because the Z6 is supposed to be the track car it's the track weapon yet people love the convertible version of it we do see
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buyers still ordering the z6s with the higher trim levels most are overwhelmingly choosing 3lz the coups
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are at 68% and the convertibles are at a whopping 82% so people are buying loaded
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convertibles is what we're seeing here five top colors again black 133% torch red and Arctic White all those three are
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actually at 133% we have Red Mist fourth at 10% % and then again Hypersonic gray
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fifth at 8% and again that color is going away the three bottom colors cacti green only 2% silver flare at 3% and
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then ceramic Matrix gray at 4% kind of give you some numbers the black cars at the top that's about 860 or so and then
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at the bottom 133 or so cacti uh nice little spread there a lot of cars in the middle you know those rapid blue Rip
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Tide blue they're all kind of there in the middle doing great no problems there going into some of the packages 23% of
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buyers are ordering the 7 performance package nice you know those come with the carbon ceramic wheels so the non zo7
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buyers there's 19% of those are actually upgrading their brakes they're for the j57 ccbs huh interesting to see people
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do like those brakes for sure yeah as for Wheels the overwhelming majority are going with the aluminums just 133% are
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ordering the carbon fiber Wheels okay of course you know they start at like $133,000 true it's a pretty big upgrade
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yeah the best selling wheel is that black spider wheel at 47% while the bestselling carbon fiber wheel is the
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visible carbon fiber wheel at just 7% huh finally we have a bunch of more stats for both the stingr and the Z06 so
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if you want to look those up it'll tell you what front lift is and you know the Nels and a whole bunch of other stuff there caliper colors we're also going to
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be doing a breakout on the eray stats even though we were talking about you know early on that close to 400 have been built Chevy has over 600 on their
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ordered books or have been produced that'll give us a good indication of what people are going with eay and the colors are a lot different on the eay
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versus the other ones wow we're paying attention to that as well again three more months of order for 202 24s and
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production of 202 24s these numbers will grow and change slightly but we're seeing with 30,000 cars out there we're
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seeing a really good snapshot of what buyers are ordering that's really cool I love looking at these stats and seeing
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what everybody's ordering it's pretty cool stuff yes it is buddy let's take our first break when we come back we're going to talk a lot about Corvette
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docomo 31 I'm your host Steve Garrett with me is my buddy Keith cornette from Corvette blogger.com every other week we
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keep you current and upto date on what's happening with America sports car in segment number two we always cover
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Corvette racing and Corvette rumors Keith we have a lot to talk about about Corvette racing let's start with Spa
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yeah so a couple weeks ago we were here together we were talking about you know this was a weekend filled with Corvette races coming up and we had another race
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the following weekend so now we all get to talk about it so first up six hours of spa this was TF sport in the World
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Endurance Championship they raced at the six hours of spa in Belgium and it was kind of a mixed result the number 82
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Corvette completed the full six hours Unfortunately they finished 12th of the standings which means no points there
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unfortunately their sister car number 81 had a gearbox issue and that car was retired about three hours into the race
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or so the next race for TF sport in the Corvette Z6 GTR is the 24 hour of lons
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on June 15th and 16th think about that Steve that's what three weeks away or now yeah that's a race that Corvette
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racing has won nine times in class sure would be nice to do it in the new Z06 gt3r boy it' be nice to get double digit
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wins at Lama that's for sure getting 10 would be awesome Yep Keith how do we do at Laguna sea with Corvette racing well
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we did even better Corvette racing got a Podium finish at Laguna sea it was the first one for the MSA GTD Pro Z6 gt3r
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Racers Nikki catsburg and Tommy Milner in the number four car actually finished third at Laguna sea if you read their
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comments the duo really belied that had things worked out just a little bit differently they would have won that class they felt they had a very strong
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one lap more and then caution came out so they got stuck H had they jumped into that pits first right before the yellow
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they probably would have won that race that was good news number three Corvette with Antonio Garcia and Alexander Sims
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they finished fifth in class and then finally AWA racings number 13 Corvette in the GTD amateur class they finished
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11th but they also won the award for the highest finishing GTD entry with a bronze driver I actually didn't know
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they gave away those Awards but they won it so good for them there yeah the next IMO Weather Tech sports car race is the
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so all this week leading up to that you're going to see stuff coming out of Detroit you know the drivers and some of the things happening in Detroit so we'll
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try to pick up any of that stuff and share it on Corvette blogger as it comes up that's good and finally how do we do it the Circuit of the Americas in Austin
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well this was the big news for Corvette racing this is the GT World Challenge America the team there dxdt racing has
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two Corvette Z6 race cars and of course last time we talked we mentioned that factory driver Tommy Milner is going to
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be one of the drivers of their new cars in this format they race two races over the weekends they hold a race on
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Saturday and one on Sunday the number 63 corbette driven by Tommy Milner and Alex Udell they won both races each day these
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races are show Live on YouTube and you can go back and actually watch them if you want to see some good Corvette racing there dxdt Racing's next event
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for the Corvette z6s will be the GT World Challenge America at Virginia International Raceway on July 19th
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through the 21st this could be actually a team we could get around these are all GT cars racing so there's no prototypes
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or anything like there that get the distraction of you know you never see your car because they're always talking about the prototypes right well we are
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the leading class in that Series so if you want to watch some good GT Racing that might be the place to go nice I
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like that in the rumors section Keith we saw more ZR1 prototypes back in Colorado
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didn't we yeah the Corvette engineering team was working out in the mountains of Colorado we had a group of six or so Corvette 01 prototypes all wearing that
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vinyl camouflage some of the cars look familiar they had some markings that we saw the same cars that we saw over in
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the nurur ring back in October and we also saw a nice mix of both convertibles and the CPS with the two different Wings
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one of the Wings is the Z6 style we always call that the bird wing the way he's kind of shaped the Z6 Wing the
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really high Wing that we saw on the nurburg cars that huge massive rear wing so they're testing those different cars
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and seeing how they're doing up the high altitude we assume is what they're out there for we had some videos showing the cars we got some really good pictures of
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the rear wing and stuff there's some exciting things happening there of course they're going to reveal this car sometime this summer hopefully we'll see
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Taj there his the last Harrah before he sails off into the sunset looking good for the Z1S I can't wait buddy I can't
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is my partner in crime Keith cornette from coret blogger.com don't forget if you want a deeper dive into any of the
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stories Keith and I cover you can always go to Corvette blogger.com all right Keith time for our third segment the
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lighter side of Corvette boost District I don't know who that is but they have 1,000 horsepower on the dyno with a twin
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turbo eay wow yeah they're a fairly new tuning shop we first heard about them I
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guess it was within the last eight or nine months or so they took a supercharged Stingray to the drag strip
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and did really well with it he calls it the world's fastest supercharg Stingray which is not even close to what we saw
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the twin turbos doing back in the day but what he's done here is yeah he got himself an eay instead of doing a
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supercharger build on it he did twin turbos we saw his one of his first videos he took that car to the track and
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it ran 9.74 one seconds at 152 miles hour nice now what he did was he put the
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to turbos on went to the track and now he's actually doing a Dyno to see what kind of power he's making okay he does
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actually takes it to two different Dyno facilities the first one is for rear wheels only he wants to see how it
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compares to the 6.2 L 495 horsepower lt2 engine you can get the power figures for
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that and then he can compare that to what he did with the supercharge he can also show like a procharger car what it
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might be running so again just helping him figure that out when he was on that Dyno he ran 831 wheel horsepower and 814
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foot- pounds of torque that really added some serious performance to that car add in that 160 horsepower in that front
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electric motor and now boost dist has that magical 1,000 horsepower rating on the car but it's the second trip to the
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other Dyno which has the all-wheel drive Dyno what he does there is he actually does four consecutive pulls that put him
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over the thousand horsepower Milestone wow his best run was actually 1,33 horsepower and he estimates with the
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twin turbo setup he's gained 484 horsepower and almost 500 foot pounds of torque wow now that he's got those
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numbers and he's kind of dialed it in a little bit more he's going back to the track that should be hopefully our next video to see what kind of power that's
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making again that 9.74 one seconds that he did I feel like that can really be turned up a little bit we'll see how
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that works out that's a video I want to see buddy that's for sure also key speaking of 1,000 horsepower special
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vehicles engineering announced that they have a special run of a th000 horsepower Yanko SC twin turbo Sting Ray coming out
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for the C8 don't they yeah so if you know your Corvette history Don yeno was one of these legendary drivers back in
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the day driving Corvettes and Seca and stuff and then he eventually became a Chevrolet dealer in Pennsylvania but
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always keeping those racing routes right there with him the Yenko name became synonymous with performance and it was
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one of the places to go like if you had a Camaro and you do a Copo order you do a ZL1 engine in it that was always one
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of the places to go there today special vehicle engineering owns the rights of the Yanko name and they're carrying on
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that history with a, horsepower Yanko C8 Corvette wow they're using twin turbos
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for their power the engine mockup have looks really well done I mean you look at it you'd say wow this looks something
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like you'd see an oem or really high-end manufacturer do so it looks really good
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the other thing too is this package also comes with choice of stripes on the side of the car and that's one of the Hallmarks of the Yanko is the side
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stripes on the car it lets you know that this is a Yanko car right and then there's also a bunch of other choices of
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optional equipment like wheels that could be added however this package isn't for the faint of heart it starts at
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$99,000 and that doesn't include the car you got to have the car and then the 99,000
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right you got to have the car and then you can get the upgrade done on it and again you can go crazy with it but I'd
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really like to see some dino numbers on this thing they've had a history they started doing Yanko Corvettes I think the 2017 Grand Sport was one of their
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first and they offered end up like two different packages they think their first package they had like a 700 or 800 horsepower package but then their second
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package went over a th000 horsepower with that car as well so looks like they're back they're doing a limited build 10 this year and supposedly 50
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next year for those people that can come up with a $99,000 package price buddy I bet that'll sell out anyway you know
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probably will yeah probably also Keith we know that the eay was the pace car for the Indie 500 we also knew who the
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driver was as well yeah Baseball Hall of Famer Ken Griffey Jr gets the driving honors of course we're recording this
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prior to their race so hopefully you all got to to see it I know that I've got my time set for being on the couch from
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about Sunday 12:00 noon or so maybe a little bit earlier so we can see some of the runup pretty exciting Baseball Hall
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of Famer is going to drive the car so hopefully get enjoy it we also had another video prior to the 500 that shows two Chevy drivers and I'm going to
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butcher their names here Augustin Kino and roma gry he's a french guy Roman
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gran gran thank you very much Steve so they drive the new eay and one of the stingray Festival Corvettes around the
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track and I've always like these videos I've been carrying them for about three years now the reason why they're great is because you tend to get unfiltered
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comments from professional race car drivers and many of them it's the first time they've ever been in a Corvette so like their eyes are wide open they can't
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believe the power out of the car and how it handles so it's usually a lot of fun and this one was good too Augustin
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canapino I'm say that right he goes wide open throttle in the eay and you can just look at his face and he knows that
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he's having a good time he says wow this is impressive and at the end of the drive he claims that his only problem is
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now that he wants one as you know the winner of the 500 does get to keep one of the pace cars as part of their winning so that is one way to get a free
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Corvette yeah he just has to drive fast on Sunday doesn't he just got to drive fast yeah right somebody's winning a
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free Corvette that's for sure we have a couple stories about the National Corvette Museum too Keith the NCM
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finished second in USA today's best car museum yeah this is a fun thing it allows people to vote for it it was the
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best attraction for car lovers it was the USA Today reader Choice Awards so a panel of experts they first pick out
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like 20 nominees and then the public votes on it for their top 10 and then that's what we get so actually winning
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the top honor was a relatively new Museum called The Savoy Auto Museum off of I75 in BTO County Georgia and then of
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course second place was the National Corvette Museum I I got to thinking you know with Summer road trips coming up of
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course you got the Caravans and some other things that you might be getting ready for one of these or several of these museums might be on the way or
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something definitely worth checking out you know with what we always call that one tank of gas trip you can see the full list at Corvette blogger.com I know
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there's a couple museums on there that I've been to and a couple that I really like to go to including the Simone Museum up in Philadelphia one of the
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grand Sports is up there so good stuff there so check it all out that's cool also our Second Story is the National
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Corvette Museum was named a 2024 blue star Museum I've not heard of that before what's a blue star Museum yeah
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this is I think something new blue star museums are those who are offering free admission to currently serving US
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military personnel and their families over the summer it's a program National Endowment for the Arts the defense department and a couple other groups
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have started this blue star Museum initiative so participating museums like the NCM they're offering free admission
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beginning May 18th which was Armed Forces Day and it runs all the way through mid-september so if you are a
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currently serving US military personnel and family with your military ID you can get into a whole bunch of museums for
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free the summer thank you for your service and go check out some cool stuff that's absolutely fantastic well buddy
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thanks for being back on Corvette today have a great Memorial Day week and we'll talk in two weeks my pleasure always fun
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