Toby went to the Detroit Indycar Grand Prix.  The track was set around GM’s HQ, the GM Renaissance Center (RenCen), and Toby got to see the “GM World” collection in the lobby.

The collection includes 8 race cars on a carousel, surrounded by other notable race cars and also many (mostly current) production cars.

Simon Pagenaud’s Menards Indycar is the centerpiece of the main exhibit.  The race cars on the carousel include:

• 1902 Oldsmobile Pirate Beach Racer (stripped down Curved Dash Model R – the first mass-produced car even before the Model T, Ormond Beach speed record of 54.38mph)
• 1910 Buick 60 Special (one of the first US-built single seater, only 2 were built originally is this one genuine?)
• 1950 Cadillac Series 61 LeMans racer (Miles and Sam Collier)
• 1955 Chevy Nascar #92 (Herb Thomas who most famously drove “The Fabulous Hudson Hornet”)
• 1989 Pense PC-18 #20 (Emerson Fittipaldi)
• 1998 Monte Carlo Nascar #3 (Dale Earnhardt)
• 2017 Cadillac DPi-V.R (likely MY2017 – driver are from 2021 Whelen Engineering team)
• 2018 Camaro Nascar #8 (Dale Earnhardt Jr.)

Also in the collection were the all conquering Corvettes C6-R, C7-R, and C8-R.  No C5, unfortunately.

Among Indycars, in addition to Pagenaud’s, the exhibit also included Simona de Silverstro’s Paretta Motorsports race car (with a first all-female crew), and a replica of Sam Hornish’s 2022 IRL-winner car.

Toby was wearing the Cadillac IMSA GTP T-shirt that he got at Daytona, and got to take a picture with the Project GTP, their “prototype of prototype”.  (Under the #9 were the word “LeMonstre”, paying homage to the Series 61 on the central carousel.)