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Challenges with weather, pace work against Garcia and Taylor in GTD PRO

CORVETTE RACING AT ROAD AMERICA: No. 3 C8.R Back on Podium
Challenges with weather, pace work against Garcia and Taylor in GTD PRO

ELKHART LAKE, Wisc. (Aug. 7, 2022) – Corvette Racing came home third in 
class Sunday at Road America in the IMSA Fastline SportsCar Weekend. Antonio 
Garcia and Jordan Taylor finished on the GT Daytona (GTD) PRO podium in the 
No. 3 Mobil 1/SiriusXM Chevrolet Corvette C8.R for their second straight 
top-three finish at the circuit in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar 
Championship.

Garcia started third and drove the first 40 minutes in mostly dry 
conditions, although track conditions grew more treacherous on his slick 
Michelin tires toward the end of his stint.

The Corvette Racing crew got the No. 3 Corvette and Taylor out at the head 
of GTD PRO after the first stop. Unfortunately, Taylor had the worst of the 
conditions as he rejoined the race on wet-weather tires. Even more 
frustrating was the No. 3 Corvette’s lack of straight-line speed also 
started to rear its head as Taylor went from first to third on the restart 
in a matter of two corners.

He fell down to fourth behind the No. 23 Aston Martin, but more than once he 
took back the position into one of Road America’s brake zones only to fall 
back again on the long runs between corners. Meanwhile, the rain was 
somewhat consistent at the start of Taylor’s stint but moved to drying 
conditions as the second of three full-course yellows flew with 78 minutes 
remaining. Garcia got back in on slick tires and restarted fourth in class.

He finally got the No. 3 Corvette back onto the podium with less than hour 
to go while a number of GTD cars were in a fuel-savings mode to try and make 
the end in case the race went green the rest of the way.

That didn’t happen as a third yellow came out with 54 minutes to go. 
Corvette Racing engineers elected to keep Garcia out to try and gain an 
advantage in track position, but a number of GTD cars had the same idea – 
including the eventual race-winning Lexus.

The race went green with 36 minutes to go but Garcia was swallowed up and 
passed by two more lapped GTD cars on the run from the final corner to the 
start-finish line. He was able to hold on to the third position in GTD PRO 
before a final yellow ended the race with eight minutes left.

Corvette Racing’s next event is the Michelin GT Challenge at VIR from 
Virginia International Raceway on August 26-28.

 ANTONIO GARCIA, NO. 3 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C8.R – FINISHED 
THIRD IN GTD PRO:“The way to you get laptime in our car is completely 
different to everyone else. On every restart we lost at least one or two 
positions. So you feel helpless and frustrated. There’s nothing we can do to 
make our car faster. Hopefully the next race at VIR is better.”

JORDAN TAYLOR, NO. 3 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C8.R – FINISHED 
THIRD IN GTD PRO: “It was a frustrating day as a whole. It seems our pace 
over a lap isn’t too horrible, but where our pace is made against everyone 
else makes it almost impossible to race anyone. It’s the same story on a 
different weekend from the last five or six races. It’s frustrating overall, 
so hopefully we can go to Virginia and be a little more competitive than 
this.”

Ryan Smith
Judy Kouba Dominick