Pratt & Miller

Pratt & Miller Engineering and Fabrication is a company formed by Gary Pratt and Jim Miller in 1989.

Based in New Hudson, Michigan, they have been one of General Motors official racing teams since 1999 when they were key in the development of the Chevrolet Corvette C5-R. Today, Pratt & Miller constructs, maintains, and runs the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Corvette Racing team with Chevrolet Corvette C7.Rs as well as the Pirelli World Challenge Team Cadillac ATS-Vs. The company also built the Pontiac GTO.Rs and Pontiac GXP.Rs, and later the Chevrolet Camaro GT/GS.R for various teams in the Rolex Sports Car Series. The company built and ran the Chevrolet Corvette C6.R in the American Le Mans Series as well.

Since their alliance with General Motors, Pratt & Miller have won numerous championships and famous racing events. Corvette Racing has won their class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans eight times, claimed the overall victory at the Rolex 24 at Daytona in 2001, and won seven straight American Le Mans Series championships. Team Cadillac won the 2005 Speed World Challenge in the team's debut season, while The Racer's Group, running Pratt & Miller-built Pontiac GTO.Rs, won the Rolex Sports Car Series championship in 2006. GM Racing's Katech-built LS7.R small-block engine was also named the 2006 Global Motorsport Engine of the Year. Katech built the C5-R and LS7.R engines that powered the C5-R and C6.R Corvettes in the GTS/GT1 classes of ALMS and the 24 Hours of Le Mans. After Le Mans 2009, Corvette Racing switched to the GT2 class and decided to bring the engine builds in-house. Corvette Racing won the 2012 and 2013 American Le Mans Series GT Team's and Manufacturer's Championships.

Pratt & Miller developed a road-going tuned version of the Chevrolet Corvette C6 named C6RS. The C6RS was powered by a 500 cubic inch LS-based engine developed and built by Katech Inc.

One of the company's first products was the Intrepid RM-1 GTP car, built in 1991.

Cars

Intrepid RM-1 (GTP)
Chevrolet Corvette C5-R (GTS/GT1)
Pontiac GTO.Rs (Grand-Am GT)
Chevrolet Camaro GT (Grand-Am GT)
Cadillac CTS-V (Pirelli World Challenge GT)
Chevrolet Corvette C6.R (GT1, GT2)
Cadillac ATS-V.R GT3 (Pirelli World Challenge GT)
Chevrolet Corvette C7.R (IMSA GTLM and LM GTE)

Championships and Major Victories

American Le Mans Series: 2001 GTS, 2002 GTS, 2003 GTS, 2004 GTS, 2005 GT1, 2006 GT1, 2007 GT1, 2008 GT1, 2012 GT, 2013 GT
Pirelli World Challenge: 2012 GT, 2013 GT
24 Hours of Le Mans: 2001 GTS, 2002 GTS, 2004 GTS, 2005 GT1, 2006 GT1, 2009 GT1, 2011 LMGTE Pro, 2015 LMGTE Pro
24 Hours of Daytona: 2001 GT/overall, 2015 GTLM, 2016 GTLM
12 Hours of Sebring: 2002 GTS, 2003 GTS, 2004 GTS, 2006 GT1, 2007 GT1, 2008 GT1, 2009 GT1, 2013 GT, 2015 GTLM, 2016 GTLM

External links

Corvette Racing 24 Hours of Le Mans driver timeline, 2000–present
C5-R (GT1)					C6.R (GT1)					C6.R (GT2/GTE)				C7.R (GTE)
2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
Ron Fellows									Antonio García
Chris Kneifel	Scott Pruett	Oliver Gavin
Justin Bell	Johnny O'Connell										Richard Westbrook				Ryan Briscoe	Ricky Taylor
Franck Fréon				Jan Magnussen
Andy Pilgrim				Olivier Beretta								Jordan Taylor
Kelly Collins				Max Papis					Marcel Fässler	Emmanuel Collard	Tommy Milner

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