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CORVETTE RACING AT FUJI: Going Back-to-Back?TF Sport Corvettes looking for another Fuji win, points for LMGT3 race DETROIT (September 21, 2026) – TF Sport hopes to return to scoring points in the FIA World Endurance Championship as the team and its pair of Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.Rs visit Fuji Speedway for Sunday’s Six Hours of Fuji.
The team and its Corvettes are looking to make it two in a row at Fuji Speedway and win their third LMGT3 race of the season. Solid results for the No. 33 and No. 34 Corvette GT3s will go a long way toward determining this year’s final championship standings.
With three races to go, things continue to look good for the No. 33 TF Sport Corvette of Nicky Catsburg, Jonny Edgar and Ben Keating. The No. 33 squad leads the Teams Championship by 22 points over its next closest competitor with 26 possible points available in each of the final three races.  Edgar leads the Drivers Championship and heads a 1-2-3 TF Sport Corvette order with Catsburg second and Keating third. The latter two teamed for a runner-up class finish in 2023, also in a Corvette, and Keating was a Fuji winner with TF Sport in 2022. Next door in the No. 34 Racing Team Turkey by TF side of the garage, Charlie Eastwood will look to go back-to-back after winning last year’s LMGT3 race for TF Sport and Corvette. He and Salih Yoluc were GTE Am winners for the TF team in 2019, and they were second in 2018. The pairing and Peter Dempsey earned their first win of the season in July at Interlagos in Brazil. The Six Hours of Fuji for the FIA World Endurance Championship is scheduled for 11 a.m. Japan Standard Time on Sunday / 10 p.m. ET on Saturday. Live streaming coverage of the race, qualifying and Hyperpole, plus timing and scoring is available through a subscription on FIA WEC Plus with additional live streaming on the HBO Max app in the U.S. Radio Le Mans also will provide live streaming audio coverage as well.
CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R PRE-EVENT DRIVER QUOTES
NICKY CATSBURG, NO. 33 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “Fuji is good for racing. It’s a very mixed track. You have a couple of high-speed corners but the last sector is very slow. That one will be tough especially with the Hypercars. I don’t think they will be so much faster than us there. So it will be difficult in the sense of multi-class racing. Hopefully it will be a strong event. We should be better than at COTA because of losing quite a bit of success ballast. Let’s see. We need to make sure Jonny and the team win the championship so hopefully we are in a spot where we can score decent points for that.”
JONNY EDGAR, NO. 33 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “I’m looking forward to being back at Fuji. It was a strong race for the team last year with the sister car winning, and Nicky and Ben have had success there in the past as well. I think it’s a track that suits the Corvette well. Hopefully we can have a clean race and score as many points for the championship as possible.”
CHARLIE EASTWOOD, NO. 34 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “I really enjoy racing at Fuji. Having a level of success there doesn’t hurt! Obviously winning last year with TF was a big deal and a huge accomplishment for our side of the garage. We had been close for a couple of years to getting that first win for our car, my first in WEC with the Corvette… It was great to finally cross all that off. Generally I really like the track. It has a classic feel to it and a nice flow. The traffic definitely can get tricky with the Hypercars in the last part of the lap so hopefully everyone is respectful through there. We should be more competitive than we were at COTA so we are hoping for big things.”
2026 FIA World Endurance Championship PointsLMGT3 Drivers Standings1. Jonny Edgar – 762. Nicky Catsburg – 723. Ben Keating – 544. Alessio Rovera/Francois Heriau/ Simon Mann – 545. Riccardo Pera/Richard Lietz/Yasser Shahin – 4911. Charlie Eastwood/Peter Dempsey/Salih Yoluc – 43 LMGT3 Teams Standings1. No. 33 TF Sport – 762. No. 21 Vista AF Corse – 543. No. 92 The Bend Manthey – 494. No. 23 Heart of Racing Team – 495. No. 91 Manthey DK Engineering – 488. No. 34 Racing Team Turkey by TF – 43 CORVETTE RACING AT FUJI: By the Numbers• 1: One manufacturer, one brand and one race program for 27-plus years – Chevrolet, Corvette and Corvette Racing• 2: Number of wins at Fuji in 2025 for the Corvette Z06 GT3.R. Ben Green and Prince Jefri Ibrahim won for Johor Motorsports Racing in GT World Challenge Asia, and TF Sport won in the FIA WEC LMGT3 with Charlie Eastwood, Rui Andrade and Tom Van Rompuy• 2: Pole positions for Corvette Racing entries at Fuji since 2023. Ben Keating claimed pole for the Six Hours of Fuji in 2023 in a Corvette C8.R, and Ben Green was on pole for GTWC Asia Race 2 earlier this year for JMR• 2: Years in a row that TF Sport advanced to Hyperpole at Fuji. The Corvettes started last year’s race sixth and seventh in class• 5: Previous appearances at the Six Hours of Fuji for the Corvette Racing program• 13: Hours difference between Fuji and Detroit in the Eastern Time Zone. That means this weekend’s race will begin Sunday morning in Japan but late Saturday night Eastern Time• 15: Manufacturer Championships for Chevrolet and Corvette Racing since 2001• 35: Tracks at which Corvette Racing has won races – Baltimore, Charlotte Motor Speedway, COTA, Canadian Tire Motorsport Park/Mosport, Chang International Circuit (Thailand), Daytona, Detroit, Fuji, Houston, Imola, Indianapolis, Laguna Seca, Le Mans, Lime Rock, Long Beach, Lusail International Circuit (Qatar), Miami, Mid-Ohio, Monza, Portimão, Portland, Road America, Road Atlanta, Sāo Paulo (Brazil), Sebring, Sepang International Circuit (Malaysia), Sonoma, Spa-Francorchamps, St. Petersburg, Texas, Trois Rivieres, Utah, VIR, Washington DC and Watkins Glen• 44: Number of drivers to win races in Corvette Racing entries since 1999. The latest to join the list were TF Sport’s Peter Dempsey and Salih Yoluc at Sāo Paulo in WEC• 73: Years since Corvette was introduced to the world on Jan. 17, 1953 in New York City. A total of 300 cars were produced that year• 88: Number of drivers in Corvette Racing entries since 1999. K-Tunes’ Kazunori Suenaga and Sena Sakaguchi joined the list in the No. 96 Corvette at Suzuka in Japan Cup competition• 159: Victories worldwide for Corvette Racing – 119 in IMSA, 10 at Le Mans, six in the FIA WEC, 13 in GT World Challenge America, three in GT World Challenge Asia, GT America and the European Le Mans Series, and one in IGTC/GT World Challenge Europe• 393: Event starts by Corvette Racing since 1999• 515,832.80: Total number of racing miles completed by Corvette Racing since its inception. The program went over the half-million mark at this year’s 24 Hours of Spa Corvette Racing at Fuji Speedway (wins in bold)2022: No. 64 Corvette C8.R: Tommy Milner/Nick Tandy – 5th in GTE Pro
2023: No. 33 Corvette C8.R: Nicky Catsburg/Ben Keating/Nico Varrone –2nd in GTE Am 2024: No. 81 Corvette Z06 GT3.R: Charlie Eastwood/Rui Andrade/Tom Van Rompuy – 4th in LMGT3 No. 82 Corvette Z06 GT3.R: Daniel Juncadella/Sebastien Baud/Hiroshi Koizumi –18th in LMGT3 (DNF) 2025 GTWC Asia: No. 66 Corvette Z06 GT3.R: Prince Abu Bakar Ibrahim/Jordan Love – 3rd, 11th in Pro-Am No. 99 Corvette Z06 GT3.R: Prince Jefri Ibrahim/Ben Green – 6th, 1st in Pro-Am (Green pole Race 2)
2025 WEC: No. 33 Corvette Z06 GT3.R: Daniel Juncadella/Jonny Edgar/Ben Keating –11th in LMGT3 (DNF)No. 81 Corvette Z06 GT3.R: Charlie Eastwood/Rui Andrade/Tom Van Rompuy – 1st in LMGT3
CORVETTE RACING AT FUJI: Going Back-to-Back?TF Sport Corvettes looking for another Fuji win, points for LMGT3 race DETROIT (September 21, 2026) – TF Sport hopes to return to scoring points in the FIA World Endurance Championship as the team and its pair of Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.Rs visit Fuji Speedway for Sunday’s Six Hours of Fuji.
The team and its Corvettes are looking to make it two in a row at Fuji Speedway and win their third LMGT3 race of the season. Solid results for the No. 33 and No. 34 Corvette GT3s will go a long way toward determining this year’s final championship standings.
With three races to go, things continue to look good for the No. 33 TF Sport Corvette of Nicky Catsburg, Jonny Edgar and Ben Keating. The No. 33 squad leads the Teams Championship by 22 points over its next closest competitor with 26 possible points available in each of the final three races.  Edgar leads the Drivers Championship and heads a 1-2-3 TF Sport Corvette order with Catsburg second and Keating third. The latter two teamed for a runner-up class finish in 2023, also in a Corvette, and Keating was a Fuji winner with TF Sport in 2022. Next door in the No. 34 Racing Team Turkey by TF side of the garage, Charlie Eastwood will look to go back-to-back after winning last year’s LMGT3 race for TF Sport and Corvette. He and Salih Yoluc were GTE Am winners for the TF team in 2019, and they were second in 2018. The pairing and Peter Dempsey earned their first win of the season in July at Interlagos in Brazil. The Six Hours of Fuji for the FIA World Endurance Championship is scheduled for 11 a.m. Japan Standard Time on Sunday / 10 p.m. ET on Saturday. Live streaming coverage of the race, qualifying and Hyperpole, plus timing and scoring is available through a subscription on FIA WEC Plus with additional live streaming on the HBO Max app in the U.S. Radio Le Mans also will provide live streaming audio coverage as well.
CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R PRE-EVENT DRIVER QUOTES
NICKY CATSBURG, NO. 33 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “Fuji is good for racing. It’s a very mixed track. You have a couple of high-speed corners but the last sector is very slow. That one will be tough especially with the Hypercars. I don’t think they will be so much faster than us there. So it will be difficult in the sense of multi-class racing. Hopefully it will be a strong event. We should be better than at COTA because of losing quite a bit of success ballast. Let’s see. We need to make sure Jonny and the team win the championship so hopefully we are in a spot where we can score decent points for that.”
JONNY EDGAR, NO. 33 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “I’m looking forward to being back at Fuji. It was a strong race for the team last year with the sister car winning, and Nicky and Ben have had success there in the past as well. I think it’s a track that suits the Corvette well. Hopefully we can have a clean race and score as many points for the championship as possible.”
CHARLIE EASTWOOD, NO. 34 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “I really enjoy racing at Fuji. Having a level of success there doesn’t hurt! Obviously winning last year with TF was a big deal and a huge accomplishment for our side of the garage. We had been close for a couple of years to getting that first win for our car, my first in WEC with the Corvette… It was great to finally cross all that off. Generally I really like the track. It has a classic feel to it and a nice flow. The traffic definitely can get tricky with the Hypercars in the last part of the lap so hopefully everyone is respectful through there. We should be more competitive than we were at COTA so we are hoping for big things.”
2026 FIA World Endurance Championship PointsLMGT3 Drivers Standings1. Jonny Edgar – 762. Nicky Catsburg – 723. Ben Keating – 544. Alessio Rovera/Francois Heriau/ Simon Mann – 545. Riccardo Pera/Richard Lietz/Yasser Shahin – 4911. Charlie Eastwood/Peter Dempsey/Salih Yoluc – 43 LMGT3 Teams Standings1. No. 33 TF Sport – 762. No. 21 Vista AF Corse – 543. No. 92 The Bend Manthey – 494. No. 23 Heart of Racing Team – 495. No. 91 Manthey DK Engineering – 488. No. 34 Racing Team Turkey by TF – 43 CORVETTE RACING AT FUJI: By the Numbers• 1: One manufacturer, one brand and one race program for 27-plus years – Chevrolet, Corvette and Corvette Racing• 2: Number of wins at Fuji in 2025 for the Corvette Z06 GT3.R. Ben Green and Prince Jefri Ibrahim won for Johor Motorsports Racing in GT World Challenge Asia, and TF Sport won in the FIA WEC LMGT3 with Charlie Eastwood, Rui Andrade and Tom Van Rompuy• 2: Pole positions for Corvette Racing entries at Fuji since 2023. Ben Keating claimed pole for the Six Hours of Fuji in 2023 in a Corvette C8.R, and Ben Green was on pole for GTWC Asia Race 2 earlier this year for JMR• 2: Years in a row that TF Sport advanced to Hyperpole at Fuji. The Corvettes started last year’s race sixth and seventh in class• 5: Previous appearances at the Six Hours of Fuji for the Corvette Racing program• 13: Hours difference between Fuji and Detroit in the Eastern Time Zone. That means this weekend’s race will begin Sunday morning in Japan but late Saturday night Eastern Time• 15: Manufacturer Championships for Chevrolet and Corvette Racing since 2001• 35: Tracks at which Corvette Racing has won races – Baltimore, Charlotte Motor Speedway, COTA, Canadian Tire Motorsport Park/Mosport, Chang International Circuit (Thailand), Daytona, Detroit, Fuji, Houston, Imola, Indianapolis, Laguna Seca, Le Mans, Lime Rock, Long Beach, Lusail International Circuit (Qatar), Miami, Mid-Ohio, Monza, Portimão, Portland, Road America, Road Atlanta, Sāo Paulo (Brazil), Sebring, Sepang International Circuit (Malaysia), Sonoma, Spa-Francorchamps, St. Petersburg, Texas, Trois Rivieres, Utah, VIR, Washington DC and Watkins Glen• 44: Number of drivers to win races in Corvette Racing entries since 1999. The latest to join the list were TF Sport’s Peter Dempsey and Salih Yoluc at Sāo Paulo in WEC• 73: Years since Corvette was introduced to the world on Jan. 17, 1953 in New York City. A total of 300 cars were produced that year• 88: Number of drivers in Corvette Racing entries since 1999. K-Tunes’ Kazunori Suenaga and Sena Sakaguchi joined the list in the No. 96 Corvette at Suzuka in Japan Cup competition• 159: Victories worldwide for Corvette Racing – 119 in IMSA, 10 at Le Mans, six in the FIA WEC, 13 in GT World Challenge America, three in GT World Challenge Asia, GT America and the European Le Mans Series, and one in IGTC/GT World Challenge Europe• 393: Event starts by Corvette Racing since 1999• 515,832.80: Total number of racing miles completed by Corvette Racing since its inception. The program went over the half-million mark at this year’s 24 Hours of Spa Corvette Racing at Fuji Speedway (wins in bold)2022: No. 64 Corvette C8.R: Tommy Milner/Nick Tandy – 5th in GTE Pro
2023: No. 33 Corvette C8.R: Nicky Catsburg/Ben Keating/Nico Varrone –2nd in GTE Am 2024: No. 81 Corvette Z06 GT3.R: Charlie Eastwood/Rui Andrade/Tom Van Rompuy – 4th in LMGT3 No. 82 Corvette Z06 GT3.R: Daniel Juncadella/Sebastien Baud/Hiroshi Koizumi –18th in LMGT3 (DNF) 2025 GTWC Asia: No. 66 Corvette Z06 GT3.R: Prince Abu Bakar Ibrahim/Jordan Love – 3rd, 11th in Pro-Am No. 99 Corvette Z06 GT3.R: Prince Jefri Ibrahim/Ben Green – 6th, 1st in Pro-Am (Green pole Race 2)
2025 WEC: No. 33 Corvette Z06 GT3.R: Daniel Juncadella/Jonny Edgar/Ben Keating –11th in LMGT3 (DNF)No. 81 Corvette Z06 GT3.R: Charlie Eastwood/Rui Andrade/Tom Van Rompuy – 1st in LMGT3

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