Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports has formally confirmed its return to the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship for 2027, fielding a pair of Grand Touring Daytona Professional (GTD Professional) entries with an unchanged driver roster.
The crew will keep its core pairings for a fourth consecutive season. Tommy Milner and Nicky Catsburg will stay behind the wheel of the #4 Corvette Z06 GT3.R, whereas long-time teammates Antonio Garcia and Alexander Sims will proceed co-driving the #3 Corvette.
“We’re pleased with all of the accomplishments our groups have achieved for the reason that begin of Corvette Racing,” mentioned Ben Bode, Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports crew supervisor. “That historical past is constructed on a mixture of nice folks and nice Corvettes. To have the ability to proceed that with the identical core group of full-season drivers provides us a variety of pleasure and clearly confidence for 2027. Profitable GTD Professional championships every year is all the time on the high of our checklist of targets. With the returning crew we now have subsequent 12 months and the power of the Corvette, there’s no purpose we are able to’t obtain that once more.”
The continuation preserves deep veteran expertise throughout the program. The 2027 marketing campaign will mark Garcia’s nineteenth 12 months with the operation and Milner’s seventeenth, having joined as manufacturing facility drivers in 2009 and 2011, respectively. Sims returned for his second stint with Corvette in 2024 following an IMSA GTP title in 2023, whereas Catsburg expanded his long-standing endurance relationship right into a full-time IMSA seat after capturing FIA WEC and Le Mans class titles in 2023.
The announcement follows Chevrolet securing its second consecutive GTD PRO producer championship on the season-closing Motul Petit Le Mans – marking the model’s sixteenth GT class producer title since 1999 and its sixth IMSA GT title since 2014.
Regardless of securing the producer crown, the 2026 title battle introduced its share of heartbreak. The #4 entry entered the season finale at Michelin Raceway Highway Atlanta as a chief championship contender earlier than late-race contact relegated Milner and Catsburg to 3rd within the remaining standings.
“There actually are positives,” Milner mentioned. “We acquired first place within the producer championship, which is nice for this system. It’s nice to have each automobiles all 12 months lengthy be very aggressive all all through the season. The #3 automotive was unfortunate at instances. However clearly it was nice for them to get the win at Detroit. In order that’s what you should have… each automobiles being quick all 12 months lengthy and we had that. In order that was nice.
“I mentioned just a few weeks in the past that we simply wished to have an opportunity to win a championship once we acquired right here. There have been three automobiles that had a very good shot at it and at this time was not our day.
“In the end a championship is your full physique of labor for the entire season. It’s not only one race that loses you a championship. I’m tremendous pleased with all of our guys and the entire crew from high to backside. I’m excited for a way robust we have been all 12 months lengthy. We’ll tidy up little issues on our finish to be nearly as good as we might be to be a bit higher. And hopefully that is sufficient to compete once more for a championship.”
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