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Milner, Tandy, No. 64 C8.R aim to keep momentum from Monza class win

CORVETTE RACING AT FUJI: Far East Beckons for First Time
Milner, Tandy, No. 64 C8.R aim to keep momentum from Monza class win

DETROIT (Sept. 6, 2022) – The last time Corvette Racing visited a ‘new’ 
track, it resulted in its first victory as an entrant in the FIA World 
Endurance Championship.

It’s time again for the team to venture to a new venue as the WEC resumes 
with the Six Hours of Fuji at historic Fuji Speedway. It’s the fourth round 
of this year’s GTE Pro championship with Tommy Milner and Nick Tandy the 
most recent winners at Monza in the No. 64 Mobil 1/SiriusXM Chevrolet 
Corvette C8.R.

The 16-turn 2.84-mile Fuji circuit has a good blend of technical and 
high-speed sections that will put a premium on engineering setup and 
strategy.

As is the case at the majority of circuits on the WEC calendar, Corvette 
Racing can lean on the knowledge of past experience of Tandy at Fuji, where 
he has made two career WEC starts albeit in prototype machinery.

While Fuji will be new to Milner, he does have experience racing in Japan as 
part of the Asian Le Mans Series more than a decade ago. That doesn’t mean 
that he and Corvette Racing will go in blind as the engineering team has 
spent many days in Chevrolet’s Driver in the Loop simulator to explore and 
establish baseline setups with Milner assisting and getting to know the 
circuit.

Fuji will be Corvette Racing’s 32nd venue during its nearly 25-year run of 
racetracks around the world with Bahrain still to go in the WEC’s season 
finale.

The No. 64 Corvette opened the WEC season with a strong second-place showing 
at the rain-shortened 1,000 Miles of Sebring. Things were trending the right 
way for the Tandy/Milner pairing at the Six Hours of Spa before a red flag 
just past the one-hour mark wiped out the team’s first planned pit stop and 
effectively put the Corvette a lap down before finishing fourth.

The 24 Hours of Le Mans was a cruel blow with the No. 64 C8.R eliminated 
while leading just shy of the 18-hour mark. Spirits lifted within the team 
following a thrilling class victory at Monza where the team won a 
fuel-mileage race for its first WEC win outside 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 live on MotorTrend with live streaming coverage of the race and 
qualifying on the MotorTrend Plus app. Radio Le Mans will broadcast 
qualifying and the race.

TOMMY MILNER, NO. 64 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C8.R: : “I’ve done 
four days in the sim on Fuji. We’ve done quite a bit of work on it so far. 
It’s a super cool track. It’s really fast in a lot of places. It’s unique in 
some ways in that there are a lot of long-duration corners there. Car 
balance and tire life will be super important. There are things we can do on 
the setup side to help us put all of those things together. The sim also 
gives us a chance to take some really big swings at it and experiments so to 
speak with setup to find something with the car that we haven’t tried 
before. While it’s nice for me to be able to drive these tracks on the sim 
beforehand, I feel like it’s definitely a big help to go to these tracks and 
get in the car and get going right away. It’s for sure speeding up the 
learning process for me and but it’s also helping us quite a bit on car 
setup as well. I think we’re pretty happy with our simulator program and the 
benefits that it offers us.
Continuing momentum from Monza: “Just because we won Monza doesn’t mean we 
are on a streak or a roll or whatever. We have to work as hard as we have to 
be as competitive as we possibly can to get the most out of the car. 
Focusing on yourself is always the best strategy to get the most out of 
package. While it’s nice to think we were owed something, we did a good job 
to get the car where we wanted it to be. The Corvette basically from the 
first practice was already really good; we were able to just tweak it a 
little bit throughout the weekend. We have to continue on that path – 
working really hard on the simulator and in engineering as they always do to 
figure out ways to get more out of it, which we’re doing. If we continue 
putting in the hard work, the results will continue.”

NICK TANDY, NO. 64 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C8.R: “Fuji is an 
F1-type of circuit where the surface is pretty smooth. It’s on quite a flat 
area. But it’s a track where it’s difficult to know the best way to go about 
setup philosophy. There’s this huge straight where you need obviously 
straight-line speed, but there are a couple other high-downforce corners. 
Turn Three there is a long right that is one of the fastest and most 
committed sections of racetrack anywhere in the world. Of course you want to 
trim your car out to be fast on the straight, but you can’t afford to give 
up downforce in these areas. It lends itself to good racing because there is 
a slipstream effect if you can stay close to the cars in front of you 
through the last sector and down the start/finish straight. There’s also the 
weather aspect. Fuji in September can see very changeable conditions and the 
rain can come in quickly. I’ve only been there twice but it’s the track 
where I have the least level of experience personally. It will be one of our 
toughest challenges as a team, I expect, being new to the circuit for the 
first time.”
Motorsport culture in Japan: “Japan is a motorsport country and they have a 
huge following. There always is a massive turnout for the World Endurance 
Championship. They want to see the cars, and they want to see the racing. I’m 
sure having Corvette Racing for the first time in Japan will be a big thing 
for the Japanese who have never come to America or come to Le Mans to see 
the Corvettes. They’re always super excited about seeing the cars, and the 
people are super nice and respectful for everyone who comes over to race in 
front of them. I’m looking forward to being in the car and with the team to 
show them about Corvette Racing.”

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