2014 Camaro Z/28 R finishes 11th

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Friday 24th, Daytona Florida:

In it's race track debut, the new Camaro showed some teething pains and could only muster an 11th place finish (68 cars in the grid) at the BMW Performance 200. It did cut the 7th quickest lap, only bested by Team BMW and Porsche.

The Z/28 R is to the Z/28 street car, as the C7 Corvette is to the C7-R racecar.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/202146085/CTSC-Daytona-Race-Provisional-Results#download
 

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Sidebar - Mazda is fielding 2 diesel entries in 24hr Rolex race today (2:10 Eastern). They are competing in the Prototype P class (the fast guys).

In GT-LeMans 24hr, Chevy is fielding 2 C7-R's, there will be 2 Vipers, Porsches, BMWs, Aston Martins, and Ferraris. Looks like this will be the one of the best fields in history.
 

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Neither can I! ;)
another autocross is going down at pomona at the muscle car nats on march 22-23 hopefully u can make it out again with ur new ride!! those Z/28's are so sick, i want to drool over it when u get it:woott:
 

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The BMW M5 E92 race version was over $150k and not sold in the US:

Edit: BMW E92 M3 GT4

On 10 April 2009, the week after the debut of the GT4, BMW's Customer Racing program announced it had partnered with Schubert Motorsport (sponsored by Motorsport Arena Oschersleben) to run the BMW M3 GT4 in the 2009 24 Hours Nürburgring race, in the new class for GT4 cars, listed as SP10 there.

The BMW M3 GT4 also raced in the Nürburgring VLN ADAC Westfalenfahrt in April 2009, taking the win in the SP10 class and finishing 30th overall. The 2009 24h race took place on the weekend of 23 and 24 May, with Jörg Müller, Andy Priaulx and sport auto journalist Jochen Übler at the wheel. Despite qualifying as best SP10/GT4 car at 57th overall and being at least 10 seconds per lap faster, the team finished third in the class, behind two Aston Martin V8 Vantage N24. The overall rank was 47th.

BMW Motorsport announced on 7 July 2009 the launch of a line of BMW M3 race cars which meet the SRO/FIA's GT4 spec and are oriented for sale to private teams and drivers. The BMW M3 GT4 price is 121,500 EUR without VAT.

While BMW states that 'the BMW M3 GT4 weighs just 1,430 kilograms' and the '420 bhp engine remained largely untouched', the 2010 24 Hours Nürburgring "Balance of Performance" requires that the power must not exceed 390 PS, while the minimum weight is set to 1400 kg.

The M3 GT4 is offered in Europe as a homologated production race car for sale to the general public. According to Larry Koch, then BMW NA M-brand manager, a feasibility study is currently being conducted to evaluate the possible sale of the M3 GT4 in North America. However, without a sanctioned GT4-class racing series in the USA, the sale of the M3 GT4 in the States is not likely.