Hear the 1968 Corvette L88 that raced Le Mans

It’s Le Mans weekend, and what better way to celebrate than with a vintage Corvette that once raced there?

In 1968, Swiss team Scuderia Filipinetti entered a pair of C3 Corvettes at Le Mans for the first time. The cars were built in St. Louis and prepared with L88 engines, circumventing GM’s racing ban at the time. That first year, the two cars led their class but eventually died, one from a blown piston, the other from an accident. But team leader George Filipinetti didn’t give up, and entered the Corvettes every year until 1973, a record for a single continuously raced chassis at Le Mans.

Decades later, one of the Corvettes is brought back out to the Catalunya circuit to spin a few laps. And boy does it sound good! Against a field of other vintage race cars, it’s arguably the loudest.

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