Callaway C7 GT3-R Corvettes in action across the globe

Mirco Schultis in his # 70 Callaway C7 GT3-R Corvette made the podium (vs AMG, Lambo, Audi) on both Saturday and Sunday, Sept 24/25 in the SRO GT America series at Sebring Florida.

 On the same weekend and 7,500 miles away at Akayama Japan, Shinji Takei in his # 44 Callaway C7 GT3-R Corvette finished 17th and 10th (vs Ferrari, Aston, Porsche, McLaren, BMW) in the Fanatec GT World Challenge Asia Series.  It would take a private jet to see them both firsthand in action.

Designed from the ground up and built by Callaway Competition in Leingarten Germany, these state-of-the-art race cars made an impact as contenders, title winners and crowd favorites in the ADAC GT Masters Series.  Most are now in the hands of well-heeled privateers.

Note that chassis 001 is now in the hands of Mirco Schultis doing a full season in the US.  

Four years ago in 2018, Reeves Callaway launched a campaign to run chassis 002 in the Pirelli World Challenge (now SRO).  Money ran out when a sponsorship deal went south.

Chassis 005 built in 2018 has been piloted by Shinji Takei of Bingo Racing, a dealer of exotic cars in Nagoya/Tokyo Japan.  It previously appeared as # 37 in two guises shown above.  We are trying to figure out the whimsy wrap job seen at Akayama.

Sebring is the 7th round of SRO GT America which winds up at Indy on Oct 7-9. Schultis battled Jeff Burton # 191 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 neck and neck through traffic until the end.

George Kurtz # 04 won both races, clinching the championship in his Mercedes AMG GT3 built by Riley Technologies of Mooresville NC located in the heart of NASCAR country.  Kurtz is a co-founder of CrowdStrike, a series sponsor and cybersecurity technology company with a market cap of $ 37 BILLION.

 Suffice to say, each C7 GT3-R chassis built by Callaway is race bred and has intrinsic value.  The value is in the eye of the beholder.

 We owe thanks to Patrick Durand of AMP Mag in France for images and reporting from Akayama.