“Johnny O'Connell, a three-time GT1 champion in the America Le Mans Series, and Andy Pilgrim, who won the 2005 SCCA World Challenge GT class in a Cadillac, will be behind the wheel of the CTS-V racecars. The first on-track tests will be conducted in late January at Sebring International Raceway,” the American carmaker say.
The regular CTS-V Coupe you see on American roads is already a hot performance machine, but its race-bread cousin comes with motorsport features, such as a suspension that should use a Magnetic Ride Control system and a set of beefy Brembo brakes.
The CTS-V Coupe Race Car was developed in partnership with Pratt & Miller, a New Hudson, Michigan, engineering firm which specializes in motorsports. “While some of the production CTS-V components will be modified due to the unique demands of racing or to meet the SCCA series' technical rules, every effort is taken to maintain as much production content as possible,” the carmaker says.
"Returning to racing in the SCCA World Challenge is a great way to demonstrate the performance and capability of the Cadillac CTS-V Coupe," said Don Butler, vice president for Cadillac marketing. "The racecars in this series are production based, which allows us to validate our performance against the best of our competitors on the track, and not just the showroom."
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