The Chevy Corvette Daytona Prototype race car is getting new Stingray threads for the 2015 Tudor United SportsCar series. General Motors and Pratt and Miller have upped the name association of their Daytona Prototype car and made the coolest DP chassis even better. With styling cues borrowed from the new C7, it’s now easily recognizable as an Corvette family member even in blank canvas, standard issue form. Check out the update from R&T.
Still swoopy with mid-engine proportions, the Vette styling tie-ins integrate nicely. A walk around reveals C7 headlight and single grill opening treatment up front, forward raked side vents down the side and the controversial taillights looking almost if they were lifted intact from production car. All those visual cues integrate with the new carbon fiber body that all of GM teams will use in the 2015 TUDOR United Sports Car Championship series.
The Stingrayed Corvette DP hopes to continue Chevrolet’s awesome record in North American prototype racing. Chevy won the 2014 Prototype Engine Manufacturer championship in the inaugural TUDOR Championship. They followed that with consecutive Daytona Prototype Engine Manufacturer titles in the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series In three years since its debut, the Corvette DP has claimed 22 race victories including the Rolex 24 At Daytona 24 and Petit Le Mans in 2014.
The C7 inspired bodywork will hit the track for the first time at Daytona International Speedway ahead of the 2015 Rolex 24 At Daytona on Jan. 24-25. Multiple Corvette DPs also will try out the C7 bodywork during the annual “Roar Before the 24” from Jan. 9-11 at Daytona.