DEVELOPING STORY:

Following an unexpected announcement, MSIMA has been gathering intel on General Motors and Chevrolet’s plan for their carbon-neutral future in racing.

To recap, the 2023 competition rulebook of the NCCC (formerly known as the NHCAACC, or Nationwide Holy Council of All-American Corvette Clubs) stated in their most recent version that any vehicle equipped with lithium battery cells is to be excluded from competition. The proximity of this announcement to the release of the hybrid E-Ray Corvette leaves nothing to the imagination. But THEY (your strawmen of choice) don’t want you to know that this development sparked a number of higher-up conversations at Chevrolet corporate.

MSIMA’s General Motors contacts bugged the boardroom in Detroit to bring you this sensitive information. According to Kayleigh Joansen, a middle management nobody from GM’s sustainable development team, a plan is in place for Corvette Racing to go zero-emission by 2030.

The plan is, in short, to eliminate emissions without developing a new vehicle platform. It is proposed that by implementing gradual changes in technology, and targeting specific rulebooks, Chevrolet performance vehicles will be banned from every major racing series in the US. In theory, this will wholly prevent them from contributing to the “harmful effects” of motorsports worldwide. The plan also takes the modern social climate into consideration.

“Not only do these aggressive driving events waste precious resources and spread pollution, but motorsports venues are often a hotbed for the formation of negative opinions for our brand image”, as was overheard.

Ms. Joansen has since declined our requests to discuss the matter.

The C8 E-Ray may be taken care of for now, but General Motors has their work cut out for them. Many models are planned for release before the tentative 2030 deadline, so the department is gearing up quickly to make sure those wheels never touch the track.

MSIMA will be standing by with information on these developments.