Spotlight on Jordan Taylor in a John Greenwood Corvette celebrating 50 years of IMSA at Laguna Seca Raceway 2019 RMMR
Put a high-profile Pro like Jordan Taylor behind the wheel of Greenwood rocket-ship.
Watch Jordan Taylor talk about his ride: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq1S8UNYftQ
IMSA widebody DNQ for 1980 Le Mans ex Doug Rowe, Jacques Bienvenue, Bill Adam from Canada with Mo Carter (but that’s another story). We are grateful to Eric Roturier for bringing these IMSA/GT1 beasts from France. They finished 5th and 14th in Saturday Group 5A for IMSA/Trans Am
Brad Briscoe, 38th raced his 1976 # 15 small block Greenwood chassis 010 built for a customer to race in Trans Am.
In 1998 GM finally woke up ending 42 years of “denial” by hiring Pratt & Miller Engineering to make the C5 Corvette a winner in ALMS GT and at Le Mans.
Celebrating Corvette’s 50th anniversary at Le Mans in special blue and white/red trim, the # 53 C5.R of Brad Briscoe (driven by Tony Garmey) was 10th and the # 50 C5.R of George Krass was 16th Sunday Group 7B 25 lap enduro for GT and Prototypes.
The # 64 of Rob Morgan from the Grand Am Series was a nice surprise and finished 12th.
The # 75 of Tommy Steuer, prepped by Intrepid Racing, the # 16 of Jim Gallaugher prepped by J&L Fabricating and the # 5 of Jeff Abramson prepped by Randy Peterson were top 5 in Saturday Group 5A for larger displacement sports cars from 1963 - 1966.
The # 67 of Fred Yeakel, the # 71 of Jim Cantrell (acquired from Jerry Gollnick) & the # 32 of Kyle Kelley and were familiar sights.
Watch Kyle Kelley here: https://youtu.be/RvLEqwYGN48?t=8
The 1957 # 283 fuelie of Ron Erickson & the 1959 # 59 of Ron Cressey represented Solid Axle Corvettes in Sunday Group 2B.
# 88 ex Darin Brassfield TA/GT1 back with Mike Haemmig did not start Sunday Group 6B
Photos courtesy of Mike Matune, Adam Hosey, Kurt Borden.
