Famed Former INDYCAR Driver Robert Wickens To Co-Pilot The DXDT Corvette With Tommy Milner At 50th Acura Grand Prix Of Long Beach

Corvette Z06 GT3.R drivers Robert Wickens and Tommy Milner met with members of the media via Zoom on Thursday afternoon. The pair discussed Wickens’ initial test and upcoming race debut with Corvette at the Grand Prix of Long Beach alongside Corvette Racing factory driver Milner in a DXDT Racing Corvette Z06 GT3.R equipped with Bosch’s state-of-the-art hand-control braking system. Image Credit: DXDT Racing (2025)

Famed Former INDYCAR Driver Robert Wickens To Co-Pilot The DXDT Corvette With Tommy Milner At 50th Acura Grand Prix Of Long Beach

Robert Wickens will race the No. 36 DXDT Racing Corvette for the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach, with Corvette factory driver Tommy Milner confirmed on Wednesday as his co-driver for the 100-minute contest. RACER revealed last November that Wickens would be running the IMSA WeatherTech Championship sprint races this season with DXDT. The first of these at Long Beach will also be Wickens’ first on a street circuit using hand controls.

The following ZOOM Call with Robert Wickens and Tommy Milner was conducted and this is what each driver had to say about their prospects. FULL TRANSCRIPT >>>

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WeatherTech ChampionshipWickens: ‘Not a Single Hiccup’ During Sebring Test

Robert Wickens ‘comfortable straight away’ aboard DXDT Racing Corvette at Sebring

By: Davey Euwema - March 20, 2025

Robert Wickens hailed the Bosch hand-control system aboard the DXDT Racing Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R as “a massive step forward” after sampling it during a two-day test at Sebring International Raceway ahead of his IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship return at Long Beach next month.

Wickens will race the No. 36 Corvette for the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach, with Corvette factory driver Tommy Milner confirmed on Wednesday as his co-driver for the 100-minute contest.

It will only be Wickens’ second WeatherTech Championship appearance, following eight years after contesting the 2017 Rolex 24 at Daytona in a Starworks Motorsport Oreca FLM09.

At Long Beach, Wickens will make use of the latest version of the Bosch hand-control system, with a newly developed braking system that was debuted on the Canadian’s Hyundai TCR car in the final two rounds of last year’s Michelin Pilot Challenge season.

The new system that Wickens will be working with was developed using Bosch’s existing electronic brake system module from the LMDh platform, but has been adapted to feature a brake-by-wire system on the No. 36 Corvette.

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“There hasn’t been a single hiccup,” he said. “It’s like when they designed the Corvette Z06 GT3.R it was always in the plan. It looks like it belongs in the car. It feels like it belongs in the car.

“Immediately I felt way more comfortable with the braking feeling and braking sensation than I had in my past racing in TCR with the Bosch EBS.

“It was a massive step forward so hats off to all the men and women at Bosch, Pratt Miller, GM and DXDT Racing for collaborating in making this all possible.”

The Long Beach event will be Wickens’ first racing appearance at the wheel of a rear-wheel-drive car since his NTT IndyCar Series career was cut short by his Pocono crash in 2018.

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