Corvette Racing at COTA: All Eyes Forward

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TF Sport Corvette groups hoping to work their means into the factors Sunday

AUSTIN, Texas (September 5, 2026) – TF Sport’s pair of Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.Rs will look to race their means up the grid Sunday from the sixth and ninth rows of LMGT3 at first of the six-hour Lone Star Le Mans at Circuit of The Americas for the FIA World Endurance Championship.

Peter Dempsey certified the No. 34 Racing Team Turkey by TF Corvette that he drives with Salih Yoluc and Charlie Eastwood twelfth within the 12-minute preliminary qualifying session. The trio received the latest spherical at Interlagos in Brazil in July – the second straight win the championship for a TF Sport Corvette. Saturday marked simply the second time this 12 months that the purple No. 34 didn’t advance to the 10-minute Hyperpole session to set the primary 10 spots on the grid.

Home-state hero Ben Keating will begin seventeenth within the championship-leading No. 33 Corvette Z06 GT3.R that he shares with Nicky Catsburg and Jonny Edgar. The trio had been winners on the 24 Hours of Le Mans and – as the results of some missed races – sit 1-2-3 within the Drivers Championship with Edgar forward of Catsburg, adopted by Keating.

Points-paying finishes are the objective in Sunday’s race, which will likely be run within the excessive warmth beneath the Texas solar. The final two races have largely been mistake-free by TF Sport, with the crew hoping for one more comparable efficiency mixed with glorious tire administration and an air-conditioned Corvette cockpit to maintain the drivers cool.

The Corvette Z06 GT3.R already is a winner at Circuit of the Americas, having received in GT World Challenge America competitors in 2024 and 2025. As a program, Corvette Racing has 5 victories in each IMSA and SRO competitors. Three generations of Corvette – C6.R, C7.R and Z06 GT3.R – have received on the circuit.

The six-hour Lone Star Le Mans race for the FIA World Endurance Championship is scheduled for 1 p.m. CT on Sunday. Live streaming protection of the race plus timing and scoring is on the market via a subscription on FIA WEC Plus with further reside streaming on the HBO Max app within the U.S. Radio Le Mans additionally will present reside streaming audio protection of the race as effectively.

CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R POST-QUALIFYING DRIVER QUOTES

BEN KEATING, NO. 33 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R:

“Because we’re leading the championship and won Le Mans, we have more success ballast than anyone else. Different cars carry the weight differently and different tracks deal with the weight differently. (In practice, the balance of the car feels really good and the car feels really good; we’re just slow. I think this is one of those tracks… where the weight really affects the car more than others. It affects us here more than at Sāo Paulo, for example. But I expect it to be very hot on raceday. Hopefully that ends up leveling the playing field a little bit. The Corvette traditionally has been good on its Goodyear tires, and it keeps the driver pretty cool in comparison to some of the other cars in the field. We’re hoping that we can sneak up on it at the end of the day and if we can limit track-limit penalties and have a clean race.”

championship perspective with no extra-points races left)ly it is a bonus. If you win Le Mans as a double-points race and there aren’t any (additional) factors races, then successful Le Mans turns into a a lot greater deal for the championship. It’s a bonus to us as a crew that there aren’t longer races. I do just like the longer races and I want we had been doing them. From the championship standpoint it’s a transparent benefit. Right now within the Drivers Championship, we’re first, second and third. It’s enjoyable to consider however it is going to be fairly troublesome for me to finish up in third place by the point we get to the top of the season. But I do suppose Jonny (Edgar) has a very good probability at staying up there. We get the chance to lose some weight more than likely after This weekend, so hopefully we will likely be slightly extra aggressive to complete it out.”

JONNY EDGAR, NO. 33 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R:

“This weekend, we knew before we started it was going to be difficult. Getting any points in the race will be good. Qualifying isn’t too important. We haven’t been in the top-10 all year and it’s obviously gone pretty well in the races so far. We’re all hoping to have a clean race tomorrow. We all expected it to be difficult but if we have no mistakes and no penalties, there’s still a chance to get some points.”

PETER DEMPSEY, NO. 34 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R:

“It’s incredible to be back here as a race-winner. One of the goals we had this year was to win as many races as we can. To get the first one in Interlagos was great. Now the pressure is on to try and keep the performance where we need it to be so we can get some points back on the cars ahead of us in the championship. So we’re still pushing as hard as we can.”

(On the Corvette A/C system) “For COTA, I’m not going to complain (about the heat) at all! Some of our competitors don’t have any A/C out there so I can only imagine what it’s like. Thankfully the Corvette has a great system in the car to help keep us cool.”

2026 FIA World Endurance Championship Points

LMGT3 Drivers Standings

1. Jonny Edgar – 76

2. Nicky Catsburg – 72

3. Ben Keating – 54

4. Riccardo Pera/Richard Lietz/Yasser Shahin – 49

5. Anthony McIntosh/Daniel Harper/Parker Thompson – 43

6. Charlie Eastwood/Peter Dempsey/Salih Yoluc – 43

LMGT3 Teams Standings

1. No. 33 TF Sport – 76

2. No. 92 The Bend Manthey – 49

3. No. 69 Team WRT – 43

4. No. 34 Racing Team Turkey by TF – 43

5. No. 21 Vista AF Corse – 42

Source:

Corvette Racing

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