Since their first season in the "League of Sports cars" in 2007, the giant seven litre, V8 engine has taken a total of eight victories to date and in 2009, led the Callaway team to the title in the team standings. In the most legendary of US-sports cars lies a Swabian soul - the Corvette is developed and built by Ernst Wöhr, Giovanni Ciccone and their team in Leingarten, Heilbronn.

"Our Corvette is probably the purest of all of the GT3 race cars" says team boss Ernst Wöhr. "In accordance to the original ideas of the GT3 category, all of our race cars are based on modified road cars." With a look at the Callaway Competition workshop, where two brand new Corvettes are currently being built for the 2012 ADAC GT season, the similarities to production cars are clear. Production cars are stripped to their body shell in preparation to be built into race cars. It takes around three months for a production Corvette to leave the Callaway workshop as a racing version for the ADAC GT Masters. Callaway have built around 20 racing Corvettes to date, which fight for victory around the world from Brazil to Australia. "It is not our philosophy to sell as many race cars as possible" explains Wöhr. "We place great value on the close and cordial relationship we have with our customers and have always built our cars with this in mind."

Callaway are one of the "founding members" of the GT3 class. "When we heard of the FIA's plans to bring the GT3 class to life, it aroused our interest and our return to motorsport began. The GT3 class allows tuners like us an ideal platform to demonstrate our competence. Since entering the GT3 class in 2005, when Callaway allied itself with Dutch racing veteran Toine Hezemans, the current Technical Director of Callaway, Mike Gramke has been an indispensable part of the team.

With their commitment to the GT3 class proven, technician Wöhr and engineer CIccone have repeated history by entering Callaway into the ADAC race series. Back in 1993, they entered a Callaway-Corvette C4 into the ADAC GT Cup, serving as a springboard into modern GT racing and as a result, they led Callaway Competition to legendary endurance races such as the Le Mans 24 Hours and the Daytona 24 Hours.

Thanks to continuous development and attention to detail from Callaway, the first generation of Corvette GT3 cars are still winning cars to this day. Every winter, Wöhr and his team make further improvements to the car. For the 2012 season, there have been modifications made in-house by Giovanni Ciccone to the carbon fibre chassis, so that Corvette is still a contender for victories in the ADAC GT Masters.

Callaway also makes its racing expertise available to customers for road cars. Under the guidance of Herbert Schürg, who raced alongside NASCAR driver Boris Said III for the Swabians in 1993 in the legendary black "Lemon Soda" Corvette C4 in the ADAC GT Cup, the Leingarten company offers high-performance parts for the chassis and aerodynamics under the guise of "Callaway Club Sport". This brings things full circle for Callaway: From the road to the race track, and back to the road.