At Sebring, the Pratt Miller Corvettes Will Wear a Retro Livery to Honor a Fire-Breathing Ancestor

If you’re headed to Florida this weekend for the Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring, you’ve got a lot to be excited about: Sunny weather, the unmuffled V-12 of the Aston Martin Valkyrie, a record-setting number of GTP cars (13), and some very, very competitive GT-class racing (11 cars in GTD Pro, and 20 in GTD). If you’re a Corvette fan, you’ve got one more reason: The retro-tastic livery just unveiled by Pratt Miller.

We’re used to seeing the factory Corvettes in some combination of yellow and black. But for Sebring 2025, the #3 (Antonio Garcia, Alexander Sims, Daniel Juncadella) and the #4 (Tommy Milner, Nicky Catsburg, Nico Varrone) cars will wear red, white, and blue to honor a Corvette from 38 years ago, built by one of the men who founded Pratt Miller.

In late 1983, Gary Pratt began working with designer Bill Riley to fabricate race cars for Protofab Engineering, which had worked with Jack Roush to build the Trans Am Mercury Capris that allowed Ford to finally break Chevy’s streak of dominance. (A later company founded by Riley would become the dominant constructor of Daytona Prototype chassis in Grand-Am racing in the 2000s.) Pratt and Riley also built a handful of cars eligible for IMSA and SCCA, and the #2 Corvette above is one of those. In 1988, a Protofab Racing Corvette won its class (GTO) at the 12 Hours of Sebring, and the year before that, a Protofab Racing Camaro won its class, with Greg Pickett and Tommy Riggins splitting driving duties. (That was back when the rules allowed two-driver lineups for endurance races.)

The #2 Protofab Corvette was restored by legendary Corvette crew chief Dan Binks, who steered the Corvette Racing team to six victories at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. He spent 18 months restoring the Protofab car and its engine—not a V-8, as you’d expect, but a twin-turbo V-6 capable of producing over 1000 hp. (In period, it ran with about 800.) The restored Vette made its race track debut at the 2023 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, in its Mobil 1 livery.

“Honoring the past. Ready for what’s next,” commented Mobil 1’s motorsport page on the video of the 2025 Corvette liveries.

Pratt Miller isn’t the only team to put a nostalgic livery on its car this weekend. The #25 BMW M Hybrid V8 will wear a giant 50 on its fin this weekend to celebrate 50 years of BMW North America.

The weekend of the 2025 Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring is a full one. On Thursday, March 13, Mustang Challenge, Porsche Carrera Cup, and Lamborghini Super Trofeo all have their first of two races. On Friday, the three support series all have their second race, with qualifying for the main, 12-hour event squeezed in between, from 11:20 am to 12:55 p.m. ET. The race itself starts at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, March 15.