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The origins of the NASCAR Garage 56 car at the 24 Hours of Le Mans

Garage 56 NASCAR celebrates the rapprochement between the ACO, organizer of the FIA ​​World Endurance Championship, and IMSA, its North American counterpart. It is a NASCAR car generally entered in the modified Cup Series adapted to run on the 24 Hours of Le Mans Circuit. This Chevrolet is the result of a partnership between the American manufacturer, the famous Hendrick Motorsports team, and the tire manufacturer Goodyear.

Adaptation and specificities of the NASCAR Garage 56 to the 24 Hours of Le Mans

For the Centennial of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Chevrolet, Goodyear, and Hendrick Motorsports teamed up to transform a Chevy usually entered in the NASCAR Cup Series into a car capable of racing in La Sarthe. Beyond the essential technical changes, the most striking and symbolic modification is perhaps the addition of headlights and regulatory lights, absent across the Atlantic.

The performance of the NASCAR Garage 56 car at the 24 Hours of Le Mans

From the first laps of the wheel at Le Mans, the Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 NASCAR from Garage 56 panicked the times. With a time of 3'47''976, the NASCAR Garage 56 beats the best GTE Am by four seconds.

Why the NASCAR Garage 56 at the start of the 24 2023 hours of Le Mans?

To celebrate the Centenary of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Jim France, head of NASCAR and IMSA, had the idea of ​​transforming a car usually entered in NASCAR to bring it to the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Each year, the ACO welcomes into the 56th pit garage a car which races outside the classification but embodies an innovative project. The planets were therefore aligned for the NASCAR Garage 56 to see the light of day.

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