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<body> <Table Width="550" border="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" cellpadding="0"><TR><TD Width="35"><IMG SRC="//www.totalmotorsport.com/images/spacer.gif" WIDTH="35" HEIGHT="1"></td><td> <CENTER><Table border="0" width="100%"> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="5">SPORTS CAR CHALLENGE</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="left"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="2">31/12/2003</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="4">Cadillac Announces Two Car Factory Effort For 2004 SPEED GT</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="3">Angelelli & Pilgrim Draughted In</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><img border="1" src="Storage/cadcts03.jpg"></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="1">  </FONT></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="left"><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="2"><B>Cadillac Announces Two Car CTS-V Factory Effort For 2004 SCCA SPEED GT</B><BR> <BR> <B>Max Angelelli And Andy Pilgrim To Pilot Luxury Performance Sedans</B><BR> <BR> Continuing to demonstrate its technical capabilities and high-performance credentials, Cadillac today announced a race-going version of the CTS-V sport sedan, the most powerful car in the brand’s line-up. The race CTS-V race car will compete in the 2004 SCCA Pro Racing SPEED World Challenge GT Championship, a highly-competitive North American race series for production based cars. Championship-winning sports car racers Max Angelelli and Andy Pilgrim will drive the works Cadillac’s.<BR> <BR> “This is a significant day for Cadillac,” said Mark LaNeve, Cadillac general manager. “The CTS-V race car is further evidence of the dramatic changes taking place at Cadillac. The CTS-V race car will improve Cadillac’s credibility with luxury performance enthusiasts.”<BR> <BR> The CTS-V race car is the first race car developed by GM Racing in conjunction with the new GM Performance Division, an in-house centre designed to explore potential enthusiast-oriented versions of production models. The CTS-V, introduced in late 2003 as a 2004 model, signalled Cadillac’s entry into the low-volume, high-performance luxury car niche, and was the first vehicle to wear the division’s high-performance V-series badge.<BR> <BR> “The CTS-V race car starts from a great set of blueprints,” said GM Racing Director Doug Duchardt. “The outstanding performance characteristics of the rear-drive Sigma-based CTS and CTS-V lend perfectly to a race car application. We were able to maintain a significant amount of shared parts, technologies and processes in developing the CTS-V race car.”<BR> <BR> By weight, the CTS-V race car is 73 percent stock-derived. The production CTS-V and CTS-V race car share common technology – in the form of the all-aluminium V-8 engine, front and rear suspension, steering system, differential and half-shafts – and talent, as the engineers who conceived the CTS-V for street use were directly involved in the creation of the race car. <BR> <BR> Like the CTS and CTS-V, which were refined and validated at Germany’s famed Nürburgring, the CTS-V race car will prove itself on the most challenging racing circuits in North America. A two-car, factory-backed effort from Cadillac will debut at the SCCA World Challenge race supporting the 12 Hours of Sebring in March 2004.<BR> <BR> Pilgrim, who most recently drove a works Corvette in the American Le Mans Series, has run 22 World Challenge races and claims three victories in the series. Angelelli is new to the series, but will not be considered a rookie due to his extensive racing experience, including the 1992 Italian Formula 3 Championship and racing Ferrari, Panoz and, most recently, Cadillac sports racers.<BR> <BR> The CTS-V race car will feature a 5.7L overhead valve V8 engine. It will produce more than 500 hp with a maximum rpm of 7600. Its top speed is estimated to be in excess of 165 mph, and the car, like every other in the SCCA SPEED World Challenge, will be shod with 18” Toyo Proxes RA-1 tyres (275/35 front and 335/30 rear).<BR> <BR> </FONT></TD></TR> </TABLE><BR> </CENTER> <BR><CENTER><font size="1" color="#808080" face="Tahoma">Copyright ©2000-©2023 TotalMotorSport</font></CENTER> </td> </tr> </table> </body>