The Chevy Camaro already competes in numerous high-profile race series around the world, including in NASCAR, Trans-Am, various GT4 series and, starting in 2022, the Australia Supercars Championship.
The Chevy Camaro and motorsports go hand-in-hand, so naturally, the GM Design team is interested in the various ways they can translate the sports coupe’s styling over to the world of racing. This fun design sketch, which was completed by GM Creative Designer Darby Barber, is a great example of how the automaker experiments with the Camaro’s exterior design cues when it comes to racing and motorsports.
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Barber seems to have envisioned this fictional Camaro race car as a GTLM-spec car, judging by the IMSA GTLM number plates affixed to its doors. The GTLM class is where the Corvette C8.R currently competes, so it’s safe to say the Camaro won’t be joining this category soon, but that doesn’t mean we won’t see some design cues displayed here translate to other future Camaro race cars.
General Motors Special Vehicles (or GMSV) is currently busy designing and engineering a Chevy Camaro ZL1 for the Australian Supercars Championship’s Gen3 ruleset, which will be introduced from the 2022 season onward. The automaker already released a preliminary design sketch for the Camaro ZL1 Supercar, but we wouldn’t be shocked if the finished product pulled a little inspiration from Barber’s design as well. We’ll have to wait for the new right-hand-drive racer to make its debut later this year or early next year to see what it really looks like, though.
This GTLM-spec Chevy Camaro race car may only be a design exercise, but we’re just happy to see the GM Design team taking a continued interest in racing and motorsports to help promote nameplates like the Corvette and Camaro. It’d be a shame for these enthusiast cars to get left behind amid GM’s transition to an all-electric future, after all.
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That front end looks like a facelift…
I wish GM had released this as a package over 1LE.
7 Gen Camaro?.
The LT5 comes to mind with a hood that tall! Wishful thinking but in my mind the 2022 Camaro Zl1 will have a LT5 with revised stylizing as it has been the same since it came out.
20 psi whipple a 4.3 for a z28, use composite hood & fenders, no-AC option, maybe lose the e-diff.
Designing a Camaro for racing when it’s near-impossible to find a V8 Camaro on any showroom floor within 200 miles of me? And a ZL1? Forget it.
I don’t get it; gm needs to either start advertising—and then building—Camaros, or else just go ahead and pull the plug on the carline as they’ve already said they’ll do after 2022.
Bugger the racetrack gimmie one for the road!
No shortage of V8’s where i’m at however GM needs to get the dealers to stock more than just the black interiors and at least put the better radio in them. The gray cloth looks so much better than the black cloth, the White/black interior is sharp, the Kalahari also very sharp. I been trying to look at some with different color interiors but black but as soon as the dealer has them they are gone. I hope this trend of everything black ends because to me its very boring. Its like the problem with manuals, dealers say no one buys them. Well if you don’t stock them how can anyone buy them. That seems to be the same with black interiors they say that’s what everyone buys no its because that is all they are stocking.
I’d guess the lack of manual-trans Camaros (or any other carline, for that matter) is simply due to the fact that GM makes a lot more $$$ selling the “optional” auto trans.
Maybe we—the grass-roots performance-car buyers—are just in such a minority in this day and age that GM no longer cares about us. At least, that’s the impression I get from GM’s current (no pun intended) direction, and total lack of advertising of any vehicle with any semblance of performance. While FCA is being propped-up by sales of high-horsepower supercars aided by clever marketing and TV ads—along with anything with the ‘Jeep’ name on it—and Mustang is still being carried by it’s close association with Shelby America, GM—actually Chevrolet in particular—is shunning that segment of the market with a vengeance.
IDK; maybe in the years to come, Barra’s single-minded push away from ICE performance and into EVs will prove to have been done at exactly the right time. But it just seems to me that such a huge corporation, with all it’s assets and engineering acumen, could easily parallel-build vehicles for both market segments.
Z-28!