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Try as it might, Corvette Racing couldn’t replicate its Monza magic on 
Sunday

 CORVETTE RACING AT FUJI: No Monza Repeat in Japanese Debut

OYAMA, Japan (Sept. 11, 2022) – Try as it might, Corvette Racing couldn’t 
replicate its Monza magic on Sunday as it finished fifth in the GTE Pro 
class of the Six Hours of Fuji for the FIA World Endurance Championship.

Tommy Milner and Nick Tandy, coming off a victory together in the previous 
WEC race in Italy, soldiered through a difficult day in the No. 64 Mobil 
1/SiriusXM Chevrolet Corvette C8.R during the team’s first race at Fuji 
Speedway.

 Milner, Tandy and the rest of the team had a tough time coming to grips – 
figuratively and literally – with the unfamiliar Fuji circuit and track 
surface.

The Corvette team found itself in a hole early as the No. 64 had to serve a 
drive-through penalty for exceeding track limits just shy of the 30-minute 
mark. Tandy rejoined the track undeterred and managed to gain a spot up to 
fourth with an inside dive on the No. 91 Porsche – which also was called in 
for a similar penalty – at the first corner just shy of the one-hour mark.

The tire management of the Corvette progressed nicely for the remainder of 
Tandy’s stint compared to the other GTE Pro runners. Another stroke of 
misfortune struck, however, as the Corvette ran out of fuel on pitlane as 
Tandy headed for his first stop. After some assistance from the Corvette 
Racing crew, the No. 64 took on fuel and left-side tires for Tandy’s second 
stint.

The struggles continued with Tandy reporting a severe lack of rear grip and 
a tire issue through the back half of his run.

Milner drove the middle two stints and took on four tires for each run in an 
effort to claw back into contention. Unfortunately the continuing struggles 
with pace and grip plus a caution-free race limited any ground that he and 
Tandy could make up at the end.

Corvette Racing closes its first-year WEC campaign with the Eight Hours of 
Bahrain on Nov. 10-12.

TOMMY MILNER, NO. 64 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C8.R: “Today was 
not our best day on many fronts, for sure. It was a frustrating day I think 
for Nick, frustrating for our engineers and frustrating for me all in our 
own ways. We’ll give ourselves some time after the race to decompress and 
think about those lessons and take them with us to Bahrain. In general, we 
had some struggles through practice and we improved the car for Nick through 
FP3 and qualifying. We were still behind the eight-ball a little bit, and in 
the race we saw some residuals from that. I was pretty slow the first couple 
of laps of my stint just because I was realistically driving a new car from 
what I had from the practice sessions. The second stint was a bit better but 
for me not as good as it needed to be. In the grand scheme of things, no 
thing that one person did or one group did had an ultimate effect on today; 
it was a collection of many things. We’ll isolate the mistakes and at the 
same time highlight the positives and find the things we did well. We’ll 
take our lumps from today and focus on Bahrain to be more prepared, be 
faster and make less mistakes. Hopefully that’s enough and we can have a 
good race there.”

NICK TANDY, NO. 64 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C8.R: “The story of 
the race wasn’t so great. Really since Friday morning, it’s been a struggle. 
I think the characteristics of this track and the track surface just don’t 
suit our car. You’re never going to have the fastest car at every track you 
go to; that’s not how racing works. So what we have done is learned a lot. 
If we could start the race again tomorrow, there are things we absolutely 
would change but you only learn things from experience. This is something we 
can take forward. We’re not going to win every race. What we need to do is 
capitalize on days where the car is competitive. We had some issues but this 
was the one take because this was our least competitive showing from a pace 
perspective. This shows again the things we need to focus on in practice and 
in simulation when we are coming to a new track. And it shows that racing is 
difficult. It shows that the day we had Monza is just as big as we thought 
it was at the time. This weekend shows just what a good job we did there and 
how tough it can be if the stars don’t align.”

Ryan Smith
Judy Kouba Dominick