{"id":21975,"date":"2017-07-22T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-22T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/?p=21975"},"modified":"2017-07-22T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-22T15:15:00","slug":"corvette-racing-at-lime-rock-park-third-row-start-for-pair-of-chevrolet-corvettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/2017\/07\/corvette-racing-at-lime-rock-park-third-row-start-for-pair-of-chevrolet-corvettes\/","title":{"rendered":"CORVETTE RACING AT LIME ROCK PARK: Third-Row Start for Pair of Chevrolet Corvettes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"CORVETTE RACING AT LIME ROCK PARK: Third-Row Start for Pair of Chevrolet Corvettes<\/strong>
\nMilner fifth, Magnussen sixth in qualifying ahead of GT-only race<\/p>\n

LAKEVILLE, Connecticut (July 21, 2017) \u2013 Corvette Racing will go for another victory at Lime Rock Park on Saturday from the third row after qualifying for the Northeast Grand Prix \u2013 the team\u2019s seventh race in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.<\/p>\n

Tommy Milner and Jan Magnussen will start side by side in the pair of Mobil 1\/SiriusXM Chevrolet Corvette C7.Rs. In Friday\u2019s qualifying, Milner set the team\u2019s best time at 50.720 (104.638 mph) in the No. 4 Corvette C7.R he shares with Oliver Gavin. Magnussen, teaming with Antonio Garcia in the No. 3 Corvette, was 0.01 seconds back at 50.730 (104.576 mph).
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Corvette Racing scored its 100th all-time victory \u2013 a team 1-2 finish led by Gavin and Milner \u2013 a year ago at the small yet demanding 1.5-mile, seven-turn circuit. The GT-only event this year, the race gives Corvette Racing a chance at victory No. 106. That also would be a boon for Chevrolet in the GT Le Mans Manufacturer\u2019s Championship, which it leads by two points.<\/p>\n

Garcia and Magnussen lead the GTLM Driver\u2019s Championship on the strength of two victories \u2013 Sebring and Circuit of the Americas. Gavin and Milner were class winners at Long Beach.<\/p>\n

Lime Rock is one of 24 venues at which Corvette Racing has won an event. The team has won five times in 10 appearances at Lime Rock, and the championship-winning driver lineup has a combined six victories there.<\/p>\n

The Northeast Grand Prix is set for 3:05 p.m. ET on Saturday, July 22. FOX Sports 2 will air the race live starting at 3 p.m. ET with live audio coverage from IMSA Radio and a Corvette Racing In-Car feed available on IMSA.com.<\/p>\n

TOMMY MILNER, NO. 4 MOBIL 1\/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C7.R \u2013 QUALIFIED FIFTH IN GTLM: \u201cI\u2019m pretty happy with that. Fifth and sixth for the team is good. It\u2019s always close here at Lime Rock. You\u2019re looking for thousandths of a second here. I think this is the most I\u2019ve ever used the car up to get a good lap time – hitting curbs and things like that. I\u2019m happy to be starting fifth. Traffic here is a nightmare around here, and trying to get around your competitors is even tougher. Even the slower class cars aren\u2019t that much slower than us, and they are racing hard, too. It\u2019ll be hot in the sun tomorrow and hot in some race cars tomorrow. It should be a good race.\u201d<\/p>\n

JAN MAGNUSSEN, NO. 3 MOBIL 1\/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C7.R \u2013 QUALIFIED SIXTH IN GTLM: \u201cObviously I would like to be farther forward, but that\u2019s pretty much what we had. The car felt pretty nice to be honest. We did some good work this morning and afternoon the free practices. It is so close when you look at the lap times. We will be fighting everyone, everywhere for every bit of tarmac. It will be fun tomorrow, and I\u2019m looking forward to that. Let\u2019s see what it brings us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CORVETTE RACING AT LIME ROCK PARK: Third-Row Start for Pair of Chevrolet Corvettes Milner fifth, Magnussen sixth in qualifying ahead of GT-only race LAKEVILLE, Connecticut (July 21, 2017) \u2013 Corvette Racing will go for another victory at Lime Rock Park on Saturday from the third row after qualifying for the Northeast Grand Prix \u2013 the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut","category-lime-rock-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21976,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21975\/revisions\/21976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}