2016 24 hr Le Mans C7R Failure Delivers Heavy Blow To Already Heavily Soiled Reputation of Corvette C7 Stingray and C7 Z06

+General Motors marketing department and bullshit artist extraordinaire, +Tadge Juechter love passing their time drawing parallels between Corvette C7 Stingray and C7 Z06 street cars and their race cousin, Corvette C7R.  Although besides the front fangs and direct fuel injection, these cars have absolutely nothing in common, this does not stop GM from blowing this truly misleading smoke up the ignorant asses of Corvette enthusiasts and (hopefully) buyers, through a social phenomenon called BRAGGING RIGHTS, a handy tool allowing so called Corvette waxers to further decorate the billboards present with their cars during the spit and shine car "competitions".

To be fair, even though the waxer cars lack the normally aspirated LS7 based engine, less repulsive body work and full coilover race suspension, there certainly is a trait allowing for such analogies to be drawn:  both street C7 Corvettes and their race equipped C7R cousins are already famous for truly scary handling characteristics, allowing them to crash annually at the second Holy Grail of automotive advertisers, 24-hour LeMans race (the first of course, is the Nurburgring lap time that has never materialized for the seventh generation of Corvette).

Strangely enough, in spite of  the greatest efforts made by Pratt Miller, the rear end of their race cars breaks loose just as easy as the commercially available C7 Corvettes.  Could that have anything to do with the suspension design that typically renders alignment efforts temporary at best?  Perhaps the truly shitty aerodynamics and weight distribution issues contribute as well?

Nevertheless, the 2016 LeMans race did nt fail to deliver on the expectations:  there was another C7R crash accompanied by a very embarrassing defeat in the GTE Pro class delivered by new Ford GT, Ferrari 488 and LOL, very long in the tooth Aston Martin Vantage.

Although C7R managed to finish the race and actually score a victory at LeMans, it was in the amateur class, a far cry from the Corvette team racing aspirations (apparently driving the C7R two laps behind the overall winner of LeMans, gives this car a chance to stay on the track....?