As our guests arrive at Corvette Funfest this year, they will be greeted by a new billboard.  Our friends at Goodyear liked the idea of promoting Goodyear Tires to our Corvette customers so well, they posted this giant welcome on our South entrance.

Mid America Motorworks and Goodyear have a history that relates to Corvettes and Corvette tires of almost twenty-five years.  As the "Official OE Corvette Tire" supplier for many years, we have partnered with Goodyear since the days of the Escort Endurance Series in the mid 1980's, into the Corvette Challenge years and at many Corvette related events since.





The 1968 L88 LeMans Corvette featured on this billboard, finished 15th overall and 1st in class over 5 Litres, at the 24 Hours of LeMans in 1972 on Goodyear Race Radials - a first race victory for Goodyear street radials.  This record was held from 1972 until 2000 when the C5R Corvette finished 1st. This was during the tire wars between Goodyear and BFG to capture the street car market for what was at that time, a new product, RADIAL TIRES!

Here's an interesting Corvette Racing trivia comment:  this Corvette was a forth team car for the Ferrari NART team.  Three Ferrari's and one Corvette made up the NART entry for LeMans in 1972.  Long story - more on this story later!