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. Once again, Corvette is a contender for another title heading into the season finale of the 2025 WEC season, and once again, the competition is fierce and the chances are slim… but when has that ever stopped Corvette Racing? 😄 This time the #81 Corvette is challenging 2 other cars in the LMGT3 class: the #92 Manthey 1st Phorm Porsche 911 GT3 R, and the #21 Vista AF Corse Ferrari 296 GT3. The #33 officially exited the picture in Fuji, so it's all down to Andrade, Eastwood & Van Rumpuy to net the Corvette another title this year, after the first 2 delivered in ELMS. Coming off another title should hopefully give them a boost and hope about the fact it can be done. However, they'll need a bit of luck on the side, as the #81 team is the third and last placed contender of the 3, with the #92 Porsche team enjoying a 24pt championship lead, followed by the #21 Ferrari which is 13pts ahead. They still have multiple winning scenarios, although each are easier said than done.

NOTE: The 4 sections are the 4 different scoring scenarios for TF Sport Corvette (marked on the header row with 2 (2nd), 2P (2nd + pole), 1 (1st), 1P (1st + pole), ); the 2 columns under each are for the 2 contending cars and how they impact TF Sport Corvette, from high to low. If each finish in any of their yellow scoring positions, TF wins; anything above that (purple), and TF cannot win.

 The first and most precarious winning scenario requires the Vette team to score at least 27pts, which they can do by finishing at least 2nd, but it also requires the #92 to score no more than 2pts (ie, no higher than 10th & no pole position bonus), and the #21 Vista Ferrari cannot score more than 13pts (ie, cannot finish higher than 6th). So this is the threshold for TF Sport's winning scenario #1:

• #81 Corvette: 27pts (2nd)
• #21 Ferrari: 13pts (6th or lower)
• #92 Porsche: 2pts (no pole bonus + 10th or lower)

 The pole bonus does change the math a bit for scenario #2, but not by a significant margin:

• #81 Corvette: 28pts (pole + 2nd)
• #21 Ferrari: 15pts (5th or lower)
• #92 Porsche: 3pts (9th or lower)

 In any of these, the Corvette wins the title. Of course, winning the race gives them better chances under the following scenario:

• #81 Corvette: 38pts (1st)
• #21 Ferrari: 24pts (3rd or lower)
• #92 Porsche: 13pts (6th or lower)

 And finally, in scenario #4, max points in which the #81 get the pole position + race win. It does make it so the #92 Porsche has to finish one place higher than without pole:

• #81 Corvette: 39pts (pole + 1st)
• #21 Ferrari: 24pts (3rd or lower)
• #92 Porsche: 13pts (5th or lower)

 The odds are against the Corvette, but if they stay on the front row, anything can happen and they can be there when the opportunity presents itself. Hopefully that's how it plays out and they will be celebrating 2 ACO titles in one year.

Go Vette!

. As a fan of the Corvette, I think it might be useful for a lot of people to have a list of all the series where one can follow the cars in motorsport. This used to be much easier when there was only one supported team competing in ALMS/IMSA; the Callaway Corvettes were only a few across a handful of series. But since the start of the GT3 era, there's been a lot more options for watching Corvettes in competition. Most of these feature the Z06 GT3.R, but I included some of the Callaways on the list from what I know.
 I'll pin this to the sub as a reference we can edit. If you know of any other series where at least one Corvette participates either full season or at least regularly enough, comment below to add it to the list.

Note: These are the cars I found to have competed (or will compete —for winter series like Asian Le Mans) for the 2025 season (I know I'm a little late here 😅…); there's no certainty that any of these will continue into next year, but this gives you an idea of where to start looking if you just want to watch Corvettes racing in some form.
 The format is as follows:

Racing Series

 · Class
  - Car (Rounds)

IMSA Sportscar Championship:

• GTD Pro
   - #3 Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports, Z06 GT3.R (Rd 1–10)
   - #4 Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports, Z06 GT3.R (Rd 1–10)
   - #91 Trackhouse by TF, Z06 GT3.R (Rd 1)
• GTD
   - #13 AWA, Z06 GT3.R (Rd 1–10)
   - #36 DXDT Racing, Z06 GT3.R (Rd 1–10)

FIA World Endurance Championship:

• LMGT3
   - #33 TF Sport, Z06 GT3.R (Rd 1–8)
   - #81 TF Sport, Z06 GT3.R (Rd 1–8)

European Le Mans Series:

• LMGT3
   - #82 TF Sport, Z06 GT3.R (Rd 1–6)

Asian Le Mans Series:

• LMGT3
   - #33 TF Sport, Z06 GT3.R (Rd 1–6)
   - #34 Racing Team Turkey by TF, Z06 GT3.R (Rd 1–6)
   - #66 Johor Motorsports JMR, Z06 GT3.R (Rd 1–6)
   - #99 Johor Motorsports JMR, Z06 GT3.R (Rd 1–6)

Intercontinental GT Challenge

• Pro
   - #2 Johor Motorsports JMR, Z06 GT3.R (Rd 4)
• Pro/Am
   - #99 Johor Motorsports JMR, Z06 GT3.R (Rd 4)
• Bronze
   - #2 Johor Motorsports JMR, Z06 GT3.R (Rd 3)
   - #9 Bingo Racing, C7 GT3-R (Rd 4)

SRO GT World Challenge America:

• Pro/Am
   - #11 DXDT Racing, Z06 GT3.R (Rd 1–13)
   - #50 Chouest Povoledo Racing, Z06 GT3.R (Rd 1–13)

SRO GT America:

• GT3
   - #11 DXDT Racing, Z06 GT3.R (Rd 3, 4)
   - #50 Chouest Povoledo Racing, Z06 GT3.R (Rd 1–16)
   - #70 Mishumotors GmbH, C7 GT3-R (Rd 1–4, 8)

SRO GT World Challenge Europe:

• Silver
   - #24 Steller Motorsport, Z06 GT3.R (Rd 1–7, 12, 15)

SRO GT World Challenge Asia:

• Pro/Am
   - #66 Johor Motorsports JMR, Z06 GT3.R (Rd 1–12)
   - #99 Johor Motorsports JMR, Z06 GT3.R (Rd 1–12)

International GT Open:

• Pro
   - #42 Steller Motorsport, Z06 GT3.R (Rd 12, 13)
• Pro/Am
   - #99 Johor Motorsports JMR, Z06 GT3.R (Rd 3)

Trans-Am Series

• TA
   - #23 McNichols Corvette, C7 (Rd 1–12)
• XGT
   - #0 C6 (Rd 6)
   - #02 C6 (Rd 1, 2, 6, 7, 10, 11)
   - #82 C6 (Rd 8, 9)
• SGT
   - #54 C6 (Rd 2, 11)
   - #71 C6 (Rd 5)
• GT
   - #28 C7 (Rd 10)
• GT1
   - #00 C6 (Rd 7)

Ultimate GT Sprint Cup

• UCS1
   - #2 Kennol Racing Team, C7 GT3-R (Rd 1, 3, 5)