{"id":36304,"date":"2026-06-16T16:29:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T20:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=36304"},"modified":"2026-06-16T16:29:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T20:29:16","slug":"motor-city-at-le-mans-victorious-corvette-shocks-cadillac-denied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/motor-city-at-le-mans-victorious-corvette-shocks-cadillac-denied","title":{"rendered":"Motor City at Le Mans: Victorious Corvette shocks, Cadillac denied"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With three hours remaining in the 2026 24 Hours of Le Mans, Le Mans organizers promoted the Cadillac vs. Toyota battle for first place.<\/em><\/div>\n

Le Mans, Le Mans<\/em><\/p>\n

A General Motors V-8 was on top of the podium at the 24 Hours of Le Mans on Sunday, but it wasn\u2019t a Cadillac.<\/p>\n

The script flipped Sunday before 350,000 fans as Chevrolet Corvette was the shocking winner in the production-based GT3 class in the world\u2019s most prestigious sportscar race. Cadillac, an early favorite for its first overall win in the fastest Hypercar class, fell short after dominating qualifying and leading much of the race.<\/p>\n

While the fates smiled on Toyota Hypercars for the Japanese marque\u2019s sixth Le Mans win, they denied victory to the No. 38 and No. 12 Herta Team JOTA Cadillac V-Series.R that were the fastest cars on track for much of the race. TF Sport Corvette\u2019s win \u2014 a first by a customer Corvette GT3 team at Le Mans (and 10th total for the Chevy supercar) \u2014 was a huge accomplishment as it competes globally against Porsche, Ferrari, Aston Martin and other sportscar brands for GT3 racing business.<\/p>\n

Prior to contracting with Corvette, TF Sport had raced Aston Martins at Le Mans.<\/p>\n

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With three hours remaining in the 2026 24 Hours of Le Mans, Le Mans organizers promoted the Cadillac vs. Toyota battle for first place. Le Mans, Le Mans A General Motors V-8 was on top of the podium at the 24 Hours of Le Mans on Sunday, but it wasn\u2019t a Cadillac. The script flipped […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36305,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36304\/revisions\/36305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}