The 2014 Corvette C7.R that Chevy raced to victory at the 2015 24 Hours of Daytona and 12 Hours of Sebring has been listed for sale online for an eye-popping sum of $950,000 USD.
This Corvette C7.R is the third chassis that was manufactured by Pratt & Miller after it introduced the C7.R for the 2014 racing season. Any complete Corvette C7.R would be worth big bucks, but No. 3 is the winningest Corvette C7.R chassis in existence, so it is particularly valuable. Its winning record began when Corvette Racing took back-to-back victories in it at Long Beach and Laguna Seca in 2014 before the team went on to win both the 6 Hours of the Glen and Mosport with the car later that year, as well.
The 2015 season was where chassis No. 3 really began posting big results, though. This was the chassis that Antonio Garcia, Jan Magnussen and Ryan Briscoe raced to victory at the 2015 24 Hours of Daytona and 2015 12 Hours of Sebring – two of the biggest endurance races in all of motorsport. The trio also took a podium at Mosport with the car that year.
Pratt & Miller is now looking to offload this car from its collection. The race team recently delivered the car from its Michigan headquarters to high-end car seller Fantasy Junction for consignment, which currently has it listed for just under $1 million. Many race cars that are sold to privateers are slightly altered or have been restored, but this car remains almost exactly as it was when it was being professionally raced in IMSA and the FIA WEC. Pratt & Miller recently installed a fresh engine in the car, however, which was dyno tested at a healthy 574 horsepower. As a reminder, the Corvette C7.R is powered by a race-bred Small Block 5.5L V8 engine, which is paired with a six-speed sequential transaxle.
Fantasy Junction says this Corvette C7.R is also being offered with a “substantial number of important spares,” worth over $150,000. These spare parts include bodywork, suspension components, wheels with Michelin slicks and much more. Spares won’t be of much concern for someone who only wants to use this car as a display piece for their collection, but for those who want to take it to historic sports car racing events, they are a necessity.
Have $950,000 handy and the driving skills necessary to handle a high-downforce, Daytona 24 Hour-winning race car? If you answered yes to that question, consider dropping Fantasy Junction a line before someone else scoops up this rolling piece of Chevy motorsport history. We get the feeling it won’t be available for very long.
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Interesting that this car is being sold along with these headlines:
Pratt & Miller Sold to Oshkosh Corp in $115 Million Deal
Fehan Let Go by Corvette After 25 Years
They have sold a number of cars over the years including the Earnhardt Corvette.
Some have gone to race in Europe and some to vintage racers and Corvette Collectors.
Most take them to events and share them with the public. If P&M kept them they would just be sitting collecting dust while they work on new cars.
We can be snobs to the rich but if not for them many of these cars would be scrapped and no one would see or hear them run again.
Note too Doug was let go by GM from what I am hearing. GM has a new technical director Mark Stielow. He appears to be calling the shots. He is one of the hottest engineers in the auto business right now.
It will be interesting to see what happens. The GTLM class is just not delivering the marketing or competition needed to show case the product. Porsche is gone and BMW is not really a direct competitor.
I almost would love to see them field cars in the GTD class and race Ferrari and lamborgini in cars more stock based.
Just a point of reference, Doug was not a GM direct employee, he was contract. The Dagys article add lib’d a little. The next program manager will likely be a direct employee and have additional responsibilities.
That is where Mark Stielow the new racing manager at GM comes in. Odds are he will have his own guy come in and he has some major connections to leading edge guys.
Pratt and Miller offers much but GM does offer equal efforts to make this a true team effort.
Even the Porsche team was a good team but Porsche Engineering also was a major contributor to the advancement of the car.
A toy for the 1%. What can you do with it? Not much, look at it.
Thank God that there is someone who could purchase and maintain this racing car for history. If you don’t have people who step up to buy these cars and use them for vintage racing, exhibitions and save these historic cars in their collections they would be lost to everyone. If you think that the car is not worth saving just say that. If you just don’t like anyone in the 1% say that.
Could not say it better as if not for these collectors these cars would just sit in warehouses rotting away and no one would ever hear or see them in person.
I tire of those who want to vilify those who found success. In place of hate we should learn how they got ahead.
I don’t think this car is owned by P&M. I am pretty sure it’s owned by a guy in France. And I petty sure it was Dan Binks who did the engine/prep work in his shop. Not positive but pretty certain from what I have read.
Worth keeping just for the unique sound it makes alone… compared to the flat plane C8.
Piece of crap doesn’t even have Bluetooth.
Lmao