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Tracking Your Corvette (as you should!) NCM Insurance Now Offers OnTrack Coverage
The National Corvette Museum and the NCM Insurance Agency are now offering track insurance. With the NCM Motorsports Park grand opening taking place over Labor Day weekend the NCM Insurance Agency has teamed up with longtime on track insurance provider, Lockton Affinity.
The NCM Insurance Agency now offers On Track Physical Damage Coverage. Finding coverage to protect your car during HPDE events can be challenging. The vast majority of auto insurers have changed their policies to exclude coverage for these types of events. NCM offers the coverage you need to protect yourself during High Performance Drivers Education (HPDE) thats fast and easy to sign-up online.
NCM insurance policies provides physical damage coverage for your automobile while you are participating in a High-Performance Driver’s Education event. This physical damage coverage will begin when you enter the grounds of a race course and end when you leave the race course premises. There is no liability coverage.
NCM offers single-event policies that protect your vehicle while you are participating in an HPDE event and for active car enthusiasts, NCM offer annual HPDE insurance policy options that provide coverage at a discounted rate for multiple events in a policy year. Four different options allow you to choose a package that matches your level of HPDE events.
One great advantage of this program is if you are a student taking part in an HPDE then your car is also covered while an instructor is driving your vehicle. If you are sharing your car with a friend or relative then coverage is extended for one additional driver at no charge. NCM will just need to know their name during the application process.
This program is available exclusively at: http://www.ncminsurance.com/hpde.
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CORVETTE RACING AT VIR
CORVETTE RACING AT VIR: Tough Going for Pair of Chevrolet Corvette C7.Rs
Antonio Garcia and Jordan Taylor led Corvette’s drive at the Oak Tree Grand Prix with a 7-place finish at Virginia International Raceway (VIR). The finish keeps Garcia in the lead of the TUDOR United Sports Car Championship’s GT Le Mans driver standings and the No. 3 Chevrolet Corvette C7.R entry first in the class team championship.
Oliver Gavin and Tommy Milner in the No. 4 Corvette C7.R finished 9th in Sunday’s race after Milner was forced off track midway through the race and lost four laps. (punted off track by the VW…I mean Porsche (sorry)) Two races remain in the TUDOR Championship inaugural season. Corvette Racing has 4 class victories on the season and the most of any team in GTLM.
Gavin and Milner looked to be the stronger of the 2 Corvette entries in the first half of the race. Gavin opened with a strong run that saw the Brit move from 9th at the start to 5th by the time he turned the Corvette over to Milner. Tommy was battling with the eventual race-winning Ferrari just prior to the halfway point when he was hit hard from behind by another GTLM competitor (damn VW’s).
The impact pushed Milner far off the track and heavily damaged the left-front of the Corvette C7.R and ended their podium challenge. The Gavin and Milner duo hoped to replicate their 2012 American Le Mans Series class victory at VIR.
Taylor started the No. 3 Corvette C7.R in place of Jan Magnussen, Garcia’s regular teammate. As a precaution following a crash involving Magnussen in Saturday’s practice session, the Dane and Chevrolet Racing management agreed he would not race.
Sunday morning’s warmup marked the first laps in the Corvette C7.R around VIR for Taylor, who drives for Corvette Racing at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. He drove a measured stint following a careful start and was 2nd when he pitted at the 53-minute mark to hand off to Garcia.
The Spaniard drove a solid double-stint and led with 50 minutes left when he made his final stop for fuel and tires. Try as he might, Garcia was unable to advance from 7th place. The result pushed Chevrolet out of the lead in the GTLM manufacturer championship.
The next TUDOR Championship race for Corvette Racing is the Lone Star Le Mans on Saturday, Sept. 20 from Circuit of The Americas in Austin, Texas. The team also will field a Corvette C7.R in the FIA World Endurance Championship’s six-hour race on the same day.
ANTONIO GARCIA, NO. 3 CHEVROLET CORVETTE C7.R
“This was a very difficult and frustrating day. First of all, it disappointing not having Jan race but we were fortunate to have Jordan. He did a great job in his stint, especially for not having been in the car on this track. The Corvette Racing team was great on our pit stops. There were no mistakes. The result is what it is. Everyone on the team did what they needed to do. We got the maximum result we could out of the car.”
JORDAN TAYLOR, NO. 3 CHEVROLET CORVETTE C7.R
“It was difficult. I don’t know what I should have expected. Jumping in the car for the first time on the day of the race is tough. I’d never taken the start before. I was a little cautious and a couple of guys got past. When things settled in, I think we had good pace. Once we saw where we were, we started saving fuel and made up a lap or two on some of the other guys. It put us in decent position for what we had.”
OLIVER GAVIN NO. 3 CHEVROLET CORVETTE C7.R
“The start was a little bit messy. It wasn’t a fantastic start for the Falken in front of me. The Ferrari ran wide out of Turn 10, and when he came back on just as I was coming into 11, he bombed me. Then I got side-by-side with one of the Porsches on the way down into Turn 14, and he didn’t give me enough room. As he was trying to go through on the outside, we touched and we both were sideways; he lost the rear and spun around. It was just a racing incident. After that, it was a matter of catching the Falken car. It was good racing with Bryan (Sellers) and he gave me lots of room; it was decent and fair. Jordan (Taylor) was good with me. He was trying to get a feel of things being brand new and fresh with the car. and gave me plenty of room at Turn 1. We both tried to get through that first stint without any contact or problems.”
TOMMY MILNER, NO. 4 CHEVROLET CORVETTE C7.R
“The breaks continue to go against us. I was racing hard with the Ferrari going into the brake zone off the backstretch. I had to give up the position and in doing so lost another spot before being hit hard by an impatient Porsche. That was our race. I had to come in and have most of the left-front replaced. It’s a real shame because Oliver had a good stint to put us in the position to challenge the front-runners.”
Win Your New Car is Excited to Announce Our Partnership with the International Bikini Team
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Larry developed the “Gear Head Disease” as an infant. He was able to clearly pick out manufacturer brands on cars shortly after learning to talk. Larry and his dad often went to Riverhead and Islip Raceways where he watched the midgets and modifieds. Then, at the age of 15 he was introduced to the sport of drag racing at York US 30 Raceway and soon was racing himself. From 1967 to 1969 Larry was often seen running his C/Gas 55 Chevy and his D/Stock 1966 GTO at Atco, Englishtown, York and Cecil County. Larry then took a break from driving for a while but, in 1974, he reentered racing at the road racing level first auto crossing then later competing in a 510 Datsun often mixed in with a little go-karting. In 1984, he sold his road racing equipment and went back to straight line racing in a Super Gas Comaro he co-owned. Later he was involved with a Pro Mod team as well as several pro-stock teams. His last professional drag racing involvement was in the RPR Top Fuel Team in the mid 90’s. It was on to broadcasting. In 2001, Larry O started IN THE PITS- on a small Northern Virginia AM station.
Win Your New Car is Excited to Welcome Tommy Milner
Win Your New Car is Excited to Welcome professional Corvette Driver, Tommy Milner, as Our Newest Spokesperson.
Tommy Milner is an American professional driver currently racing for Corvette Racing. Tommy’s passion for cars started at a very young age watching his father’s race team, Tom Milner Racing and later PTG, race everything from IMSA GTP cars to NASCAR. Tommy’s passion for driving started at the age of 14, racing go karts. In 2004, he was selected as one of six North American drivers to be a Formula BMW USA Junior driver. That year, driving a third car for BMW Team PTG, he secured his first pole position in his first sports car race at Virginia International Raceway. Another pole position in as many tries at the final race of the Grand-Am season, Tommy and his teammate took the win at Fontana Speedway.