Congrats to the team at DXDT Racing for earning the win in the 2025 season opener of GT World Challenge America, at Circuit of the Americas, with the Chevrolet Corvette GT3.R.
The pair of Blake McDonald and Matt Bell qualified their No.11 Corvette back in the 3rd row on the Pro-Am grid, but they drove a smart and steady race to be first at the checkered flag, making a great start to the 2025 season for the DXDT team, the Corvette GT3.R platform, and the Forgeline one piece forged monoblock SS1R-GT wheels!
DXDT Racing's victory is their second consecutive win at COTA (having also won in 2024) and marks the forth win for the Corvette GT3.R already in the 2025 season, making a strong follow-up to AWA Racing's GTD class victory, at the Rolex 24 at Daytona in January, TF Sport's WEC LMGT3 victory, at Qatar in February, and Johor Racing's wining home track debut in GT World Challenge Asia, in Sepang, Malaysia in April.
Based upon the Chevrolet C8 Corvette Z06 and sharing the road car’s aluminum chassis, the Corvette GT3.R is powered by a version of the Z06’s 5.5L DOHC LT6 V8 engine mated to a 6-speed sequential transmission. It rides on a motorsports-specific double-wishbone suspension system and a motorsports-specific 6-piston front/4-piston rear AP Racing braking system with unique cooling and quick-change capabilities. Pratt Miller worked with the team at Forgeline Motorsports for several years to develop an application-specific version of Forgeline’s center-locking one piece forged monoblock SS1R-GT wheel that was engineered to deliver optimized performance metrics (in terms of mass, deflection, strength, and durability) specifically for the new Corvette GT3.R, and every Chevrolet C8 Corvette Z06 GT3.R competes on 18×12.5/18×13 Forgeline one piece forged monoblock SS1R-GT wheels finished in Gloss Black.
Congrats to Blake, Matt, the entire DXDT Racing team, and Team Chevy, and thank you for the trust that you place in Forgeline!
The pair of Blake McDonald and Matt Bell qualified their No.11 Corvette back in the 3rd row on the Pro-Am grid, but they drove a smart and steady race to be first at the checkered flag, making a great start to the 2025 season for the DXDT team, the Corvette GT3.R platform, and the Forgeline one piece forged monoblock SS1R-GT wheels!
DXDT Racing's victory is their second consecutive win at COTA (having also won in 2024) and marks the forth win for the Corvette GT3.R already in the 2025 season, making a strong follow-up to AWA Racing's GTD class victory, at the Rolex 24 at Daytona in January, TF Sport's WEC LMGT3 victory, at Qatar in February, and Johor Racing's wining home track debut in GT World Challenge Asia, in Sepang, Malaysia in April.
Based upon the Chevrolet C8 Corvette Z06 and sharing the road car’s aluminum chassis, the Corvette GT3.R is powered by a version of the Z06’s 5.5L DOHC LT6 V8 engine mated to a 6-speed sequential transmission. It rides on a motorsports-specific double-wishbone suspension system and a motorsports-specific 6-piston front/4-piston rear AP Racing braking system with unique cooling and quick-change capabilities. Pratt Miller worked with the team at Forgeline Motorsports for several years to develop an application-specific version of Forgeline’s center-locking one piece forged monoblock SS1R-GT wheel that was engineered to deliver optimized performance metrics (in terms of mass, deflection, strength, and durability) specifically for the new Corvette GT3.R, and every Chevrolet C8 Corvette Z06 GT3.R competes on 18×12.5/18×13 Forgeline one piece forged monoblock SS1R-GT wheels finished in Gloss Black.
Congrats to Blake, Matt, the entire DXDT Racing team, and Team Chevy, and thank you for the trust that you place in Forgeline!