Chevrolet Camaro GT4.R to Feature Heavily in 2020 IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge
Rebel Rock Racing, Team TGM to field Camaro GT4.Rs in GS category
DETROIT (Jan. 21, 2020) – The Chevrolet Camaro GT4.R is returning to the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge series.
Rebel Rock Racing and Team TGM will each field a Camaro GT4.R for the entire 2020 season, which gets underway this weekend at the Daytona International Speedway.
“We’re thrilled to see multiple Chevrolet Camaro GT4.Rs on the grid for the 2020 Michelin Pilot Challenge,” said Mark Kent, Chevrolet Director of Motorsports Competition. “The Camaro GT4.R has already won races and championships at the GT4 level and we look forward to continued success in 2020 with the Camaro GT4.R in the hands of these two championship-caliber teams.”
The Chevrolet Camaro GT4.R – based on the sixth-generation production Camaro ZL1 1LE – is built to global GT4 regulations and eligible in the Michelin Pilot Challenge and SRO America’s Pirelli GT4 America series, two of North America’s top GT racing championships, as well as additional GT4 series across the world.
The Rebel Rock program will feature one Camaro GT4.R for Robin Liddell and Frank Depew. This will mark the pairing’s second full season together in the Camaro following a pair of victories in 2019. Team TGM is new to the Chevrolet family and will enter a pair of Camaros – one for Hugh Plumb and Matt Plumb with team owner Ted Giovanis and Owen Trinkler teaming together in a second GT4.R.
Since its debut in 2017, the Camaro GT4.R has won 10 times in North America with four of those victories coming in the Michelin Pilot Challenge. Rebel Rock Racing had two of those in the 2019 championship – Canadian Tire Motorsport Park and Road America.
Developed with technical partner Pratt & Miller Engineering, the Chevrolet Camaro GT4.R gets its power from a race-tuned, dry-sump 6.2L LT1 V8 small-block engine – developed and validated by Chevrolet Racing – delivers its power through a race proven, six-speed Xtrac sequential transmission with pneumatic paddle shift and adjustable traction control.
As a brand, Camaro is one of the most successful nameplates in the Michelin Pilot Challenge with 19 victories among three variants. The racing success of the fifth-generation Camaro gave Chevrolet engineers a head start on creating a turn-key racer in the GT4.R. From 2010-16, the Camaro GS and Camaro Z/28.R won 55 races, two Manufacturer’s championships and five driving titles in major North American competition.