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CORVETTE RACING AT COTA: Hometown Hyperpole Berth

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No. 33 Corvette to start fifth in class for WEC’s American stop AUSTIN, Texas (September 6, 2025) – TF Sport’s No. 33 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R will start a season-best fifth in LMGT3 on Sunday for the FIA World Endurance Championship’s Lone Star Le Mans at Circuit of The Americas.
Home-state hero Ben Keating put the Corvette into the top-10 after the first session, and Jonny Edgar piloted the No. 33 Z06 GT3.R to the third row in Saturday’s dual qualifying session. The duo, plus Corvette factory driver Daniel Juncadella, will look to return to the podium in the WEC’s lone race in North America. The trio sit third in the class Drivers Championship on the strength of a season-opening victory at Qatar. Edgar is making his COTA debut, Keating hasn’t raced a Corvette at the circuit before, and Juncadella finished in the points last year for TF Sport.
Tom Van Rompuy just missed making the Hyperpole round – by 0.151 seconds – in the No. 81 Corvette that he drives with Rui Andrade and Corvette factory teammate Charlie Eastwood. The trio is coming off two straight podium finishes – third at Le Mans and second place at Sāo Paulo to move up to fifth in points. 		Corvette Racing Media Resources Documents | Statistics | Photos | Factory Driver Bios | Chevrolet Newsroom
The session featured mixed conditions with intermittent rain and a drying track toward the end, allowing drivers that started their final laps close to the end of the session getting the best of it.
The six-hour Lone Star Le Mans is scheduled for 1 p.m. CT on Sunday. Full, live coverage is available on the MotorTrend and the MAX app in the United States.
TF SPORT POST-QUALIFYING QUOTESJONNY EDGAR, NO. 33 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “I’m pretty happy with P5. It’s our best starting spot this year so that’s always good. It was a very difficult session with the already a bit of a damp track at the start and then drying throughout. It was pretty hard to get the tires warm. But I think we always use our tires better and the Corvette is better in the race. So yeah, we can be happy with P5 as it’s a good place to start for the race.”
BEN KEATING, NO. 33 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “Really challenging conditions. Because of the Texas heat this weekend, we’re here on the hard Goodyear. In these conditions it’s really, really difficult to get heat in the hard Goodyear on a damp track. So it was a challenging condition. Because I was getting a little bit more heat in the tire every lap, I was gaining three, four, five seconds per lap. I was just glad I didn’t end up in the gravel or in the wall somewhere. The car was sliding all over the place, but really happy to end up in Hyperpole and super proud of Johnny to end up P5. Hyperpole for us was a big deal. The Corvette is way better on a double-stint… two hours in the car with the one set of tires. Some of the other cars turn on their tire faster than we do. I don’t care about qualifying as much as I care about the race. I’d rather have our car for the race. I think we do.”
TOM VAN ROMPUY, NO. 81 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “It was a tough qualy, also with the conditions going from wet to drying. It was also really hard to judge where the limit was. I was already sliding then also bumped into quite a bit of traffic during my run. So yeah, not a result I was hoping for but it is a six-hour race, so I think it we can only move up ahead. We hope to have a better day tomorrow and still end up on the podium.”
Corvette Racing at COTA: By the Numbers• 3: Generations of Corvette Racing entries at COTA since 2013 – Corvette C6.R (2013), Corvette C7.R (2014-2019) and the mid-engine Corvette C8.R – which raced at COTA for the first time in WEC competition in 2020 – and Z06 GT3.R, both of which are eighth-gen Corvettes• 5: Class wins at COTA for Corvette Racing entries in two championships: IMSA and GT World Challenge America. The latest came this year from DXDT Racing in GT World Challenge America Pro-Am• 11: Wins this year for the Corvette Z06 GT3.R including two earlier this year at Circuit of The Americas• 14: Manufacturer Championships for Chevrolet and Corvette Racing since 2001• 32: 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, Laguna Seca, Le Mans, Lime Rock, Long Beach, Lusail International Circuit (Qatar), Sepang International Circuit (Malaysia), Miami, Mid-Ohio, Monza, Portimão, Portland, Road America, Road Atlanta, Sebring, Sonoma, St. Petersburg, Texas, Trois Rivieres, Utah, VIR, Washington DC and Watkins Glen• 39: Number of drivers to win races in Corvette Racing entries since 1999. The latest to join the list was Ross Chouest in GT America at Road America• 72: Number of drivers in Corvette Racing entries since 1999. The latest to join the list was Olivier Hart for Steller Motorsport at the 24 Hours of Spa• 72: 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• 148: Victories worldwide for Corvette Racing – 117 in IMSA, nine at Le Mans, four in the FIA WEC, 13 in GT World Challenge America, three in GT World Challenge Asia and one each in the European Le Mans Series and GT America• 360: Event starts by Corvette Racing since 1999• 5,474: Number of racing miles completed by Corvette Racing in its eight previous events at Circuit of The Americas. That represents more than 30 trips across the Texas Panhandle.• 447,340.24: Total number of racing miles completed by Corvette Racing since its inception. To put that in perspective, Corvette Racing is more than halfway to the distance traveled by Apollo 13 – the longest manned spaceflight in history: 622,268 miles. That means Corvette Racing has raced to the moon and more than halfway back! Corvette Racing at Circuit of The Americas (wins in bold)2013 – IMSANo. 3 Corvette C6.R: Antonio Garcia/Jan Magnussen – 1st in GTNo. 4 Corvette C6.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner – 11th in GT
2014 – IMSANo. 3 Corvette C7.R: Antonio Garcia/Jan Magnussen – 9th in GTLMNo. 4 Corvette C7.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner – 10th in GTLM
2014 – FIA WECNo. 65 Corvette C7.R: Tommy Milner/Jordan Taylor/Ricky Taylor – 7th in GTE Pro
2015 – IMSANo. 3 Corvette C7.R: Antonio Garcia/Jan Magnussen: 6th in GTLMNo. 4 Corvette C7.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner: 8th in GTLM
2016 – IMSANo. 3 Corvette C7.R: Antonio Garcia/Jan Magnussen: 3rd in GTLMNo. 4 Corvette C7.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner: 5th in GTLM
2017 – IMSANo. 3 Corvette C7.R: Antonio Garcia/Jan Magnussen: 1st in GTLMNo. 4 Corvette C7.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner: 7th in GTLM
2020 – FIA WECNo. 63 Corvette C8.R: Jan Magnussen/Mike Rockenfeller: 6th in GTE Pro
2024 – GT World ChallengeNo. 63 Corvette Z06 GT3.R: Tommy Milner/Alec Udell – 1st,1st in ProNo. 08 Corvette Z06 GT3.R: Bryan Sellers/Scott Smithson – 6th, 11th in Pro-Am
2024 – FIA World Endurance ChampionshipNo. 81 Corvette Z06 GT3.R: Charlie Eastwood/Rui Andrade/Tom Van Rompuy – 16th in LMGT3No. 82 Corvette Z06 GT3.R: Daniel Juncadella/Sebastien Baud/Hiroshi Koizumi – 8th in LMGT3
2025 – GT World ChallengeNo. 11 Corvette Z06 GT3.R: Matt Bell/Blake McDonald – 1st, 3rd in Pro-AmNo. 50 Corvette Z06 GT3.R: Ross Chouest/Aaron Povoledo – 8th, 11th in Pro-AmNo. 50 Corvette Z06 GT3.R: Ross Chouest – 4th, 3rd in GT America SRO3
CORVETTE RACING AT COTA: Hometown Hyperpole BerthNo. 33 Corvette to start fifth in class for WEC’s American stop AUSTIN, Texas (September 6, 2025) – TF Sport’s No. 33 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R will start a season-best fifth in LMGT3 on Sunday for the FIA World Endurance Championship’s Lone Star Le Mans at Circuit of The Americas.
Home-state hero Ben Keating put the Corvette into the top-10 after the first session, and Jonny Edgar piloted the No. 33 Z06 GT3.R to the third row in Saturday’s dual qualifying session. The duo, plus Corvette factory driver Daniel Juncadella, will look to return to the podium in the WEC’s lone race in North America. The trio sit third in the class Drivers Championship on the strength of a season-opening victory at Qatar. Edgar is making his COTA debut, Keating hasn’t raced a Corvette at the circuit before, and Juncadella finished in the points last year for TF Sport.
Tom Van Rompuy just missed making the Hyperpole round – by 0.151 seconds – in the No. 81 Corvette that he drives with Rui Andrade and Corvette factory teammate Charlie Eastwood. The trio is coming off two straight podium finishes – third at Le Mans and second place at Sāo Paulo to move up to fifth in points. 		Corvette Racing Media Resources Documents | Statistics | Photos | Factory Driver Bios | Chevrolet Newsroom
The session featured mixed conditions with intermittent rain and a drying track toward the end, allowing drivers that started their final laps close to the end of the session getting the best of it.
The six-hour Lone Star Le Mans is scheduled for 1 p.m. CT on Sunday. Full, live coverage is available on the MotorTrend and the MAX app in the United States.
TF SPORT POST-QUALIFYING QUOTESJONNY EDGAR, NO. 33 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “I’m pretty happy with P5. It’s our best starting spot this year so that’s always good. It was a very difficult session with the already a bit of a damp track at the start and then drying throughout. It was pretty hard to get the tires warm. But I think we always use our tires better and the Corvette is better in the race. So yeah, we can be happy with P5 as it’s a good place to start for the race.”
BEN KEATING, NO. 33 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “Really challenging conditions. Because of the Texas heat this weekend, we’re here on the hard Goodyear. In these conditions it’s really, really difficult to get heat in the hard Goodyear on a damp track. So it was a challenging condition. Because I was getting a little bit more heat in the tire every lap, I was gaining three, four, five seconds per lap. I was just glad I didn’t end up in the gravel or in the wall somewhere. The car was sliding all over the place, but really happy to end up in Hyperpole and super proud of Johnny to end up P5. Hyperpole for us was a big deal. The Corvette is way better on a double-stint… two hours in the car with the one set of tires. Some of the other cars turn on their tire faster than we do. I don’t care about qualifying as much as I care about the race. I’d rather have our car for the race. I think we do.”
TOM VAN ROMPUY, NO. 81 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “It was a tough qualy, also with the conditions going from wet to drying. It was also really hard to judge where the limit was. I was already sliding then also bumped into quite a bit of traffic during my run. So yeah, not a result I was hoping for but it is a six-hour race, so I think it we can only move up ahead. We hope to have a better day tomorrow and still end up on the podium.”
Corvette Racing at COTA: By the Numbers• 3: Generations of Corvette Racing entries at COTA since 2013 – Corvette C6.R (2013), Corvette C7.R (2014-2019) and the mid-engine Corvette C8.R – which raced at COTA for the first time in WEC competition in 2020 – and Z06 GT3.R, both of which are eighth-gen Corvettes• 5: Class wins at COTA for Corvette Racing entries in two championships: IMSA and GT World Challenge America. The latest came this year from DXDT Racing in GT World Challenge America Pro-Am• 11: Wins this year for the Corvette Z06 GT3.R including two earlier this year at Circuit of The Americas• 14: Manufacturer Championships for Chevrolet and Corvette Racing since 2001• 32: 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, Laguna Seca, Le Mans, Lime Rock, Long Beach, Lusail International Circuit (Qatar), Sepang International Circuit (Malaysia), Miami, Mid-Ohio, Monza, Portimão, Portland, Road America, Road Atlanta, Sebring, Sonoma, St. Petersburg, Texas, Trois Rivieres, Utah, VIR, Washington DC and Watkins Glen• 39: Number of drivers to win races in Corvette Racing entries since 1999. The latest to join the list was Ross Chouest in GT America at Road America• 72: Number of drivers in Corvette Racing entries since 1999. The latest to join the list was Olivier Hart for Steller Motorsport at the 24 Hours of Spa• 72: 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• 148: Victories worldwide for Corvette Racing – 117 in IMSA, nine at Le Mans, four in the FIA WEC, 13 in GT World Challenge America, three in GT World Challenge Asia and one each in the European Le Mans Series and GT America• 360: Event starts by Corvette Racing since 1999• 5,474: Number of racing miles completed by Corvette Racing in its eight previous events at Circuit of The Americas. That represents more than 30 trips across the Texas Panhandle.• 447,340.24: Total number of racing miles completed by Corvette Racing since its inception. To put that in perspective, Corvette Racing is more than halfway to the distance traveled by Apollo 13 – the longest manned spaceflight in history: 622,268 miles. That means Corvette Racing has raced to the moon and more than halfway back! Corvette Racing at Circuit of The Americas (wins in bold)2013 – IMSANo. 3 Corvette C6.R: Antonio Garcia/Jan Magnussen – 1st in GTNo. 4 Corvette C6.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner – 11th in GT
2014 – IMSANo. 3 Corvette C7.R: Antonio Garcia/Jan Magnussen – 9th in GTLMNo. 4 Corvette C7.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner – 10th in GTLM
2014 – FIA WECNo. 65 Corvette C7.R: Tommy Milner/Jordan Taylor/Ricky Taylor – 7th in GTE Pro
2015 – IMSANo. 3 Corvette C7.R: Antonio Garcia/Jan Magnussen: 6th in GTLMNo. 4 Corvette C7.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner: 8th in GTLM
2016 – IMSANo. 3 Corvette C7.R: Antonio Garcia/Jan Magnussen: 3rd in GTLMNo. 4 Corvette C7.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner: 5th in GTLM
2017 – IMSANo. 3 Corvette C7.R: Antonio Garcia/Jan Magnussen: 1st in GTLMNo. 4 Corvette C7.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner: 7th in GTLM
2020 – FIA WECNo. 63 Corvette C8.R: Jan Magnussen/Mike Rockenfeller: 6th in GTE Pro
2024 – GT World ChallengeNo. 63 Corvette Z06 GT3.R: Tommy Milner/Alec Udell – 1st,1st in ProNo. 08 Corvette Z06 GT3.R: Bryan Sellers/Scott Smithson – 6th, 11th in Pro-Am
2024 – FIA World Endurance ChampionshipNo. 81 Corvette Z06 GT3.R: Charlie Eastwood/Rui Andrade/Tom Van Rompuy – 16th in LMGT3No. 82 Corvette Z06 GT3.R: Daniel Juncadella/Sebastien Baud/Hiroshi Koizumi – 8th in LMGT3
2025 – GT World ChallengeNo. 11 Corvette Z06 GT3.R: Matt Bell/Blake McDonald – 1st, 3rd in Pro-AmNo. 50 Corvette Z06 GT3.R: Ross Chouest/Aaron Povoledo – 8th, 11th in Pro-AmNo. 50 Corvette Z06 GT3.R: Ross Chouest – 4th, 3rd in GT America SRO3

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