It was a year of 'what-ifs' for Corvette in WEC, with an unfortunate incident at Le Mans leaving it out of the title fight with Porsche and Ferrari. The American marque looks back at its first season in the championship:
The General Motors-owned brand entered the full WEC season for the first time this year in the moribund GTE Pro division, going up against European rivals Ferrari and Porsche with a single Corvette C8.R shared by factory drivers Tandy and Tommy Milner.
The resulting retirement for Corvette elevated eventual GTE Pro champions Alessandro Pier Guidi and James Calado to second behind the race-winning Porsche, resulting in a 56-point swing between the two crews in the title fight. “The Le Mans weekend was the best I've seen this team operate at, up to the crash,” Tandy told Motorsport.com ahead of being. “We were locked on for the victory and it got taken away.
“This is maybe something that could be looked at in the future to keep teams in a championship position. While lamenting the unfortunate incident at Le Mans, General Motors’ sportscar manager Laura Wontrop Klauser hailed the entire Corvette crew for showing what the team is capable of in the WEC. “You always want more though, and we're always going to be left with a feeling of 'what-if' around what happened at Le Mans.
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