The Chevrolet Corvette C8.R is finally unleashed on the field, but rather than focus on the speed of the car during the Roar before the 24, team manager Ben Johnson focused on the procedural aspect of the race.
The Chevrolet Corvette C8.R is finally unleashed on the field, but rather than focus on the speed of the car during the Roar before the 24, team manager Ben Johnson focused on the procedural aspect of the race.
DAYTONA — Corvette Racing is back in action during the Roar Before the 24 with their new Corvette C8.R but for team manager Ben Johnson, this testing time at Daytona International Speedway wasn’t about finding speed, it was about refining the small things.
“We looked at this test as a more operational execution practice. We knew the pace of the car coming in and we’ve done a lot of testing so we gotta make sure we drilled ourselves in what the new car will make us do,” Johnson said. “Everything is fairly similar but pitstops are a little bit different. Brake changes are a little bit different and driver changes just making sure that things that were second hand on the C7 are getting to that same spot on the C8. Performance-wise we’re happy with the car. It’s getting all the little details sorted out. In this racing nowadays you gotta hit every little detail. Car performance is just a piece of it.”
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