It was a Sunday afternoon drive that Sam Schmidt will not soon forget.

And that was before the rain and snow and hail.

Two weeks after Schmidt drove to the summit of Pikes Peak during a practice run in a specially equipped Corvette, the quadriplegic IndyCar team owner from Henderson attempted to do it on race day at the 94th running of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb.

Schmidt and co-pilot Robby Unser, a nine-time winner of the Hill Climb, were last up the mountain Sunday. They made it about halfway to the summit before Mother Nature intervened.

Rain, snow and hail are formidable obstacles for even the most able-bodied of racecar drivers to deal with during the Race to the Clouds. The annual Hill Climb is contested on a 12.42-mile course featuring 156 turns and few guardrails.

The Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority gave preliminary approval Thursday to $3 million in incentives that would allow General Motors to add 270 jobs to its Bowling Green Assembly Plant.

The proposed project is expected to cost $153.9 million and would add “new technologies and processes to meet increasing customer demand,” according to documents filed with KEDFA.

The possible jobs would be expected to pay an average of $21 an hour including benefits, according to the documents.

The Bowling Green facility assembles the Chevrolet Corvette, and GM is constructing a large new paint room at the plant. In April, the final piece of steel was installed in the $439 million facility, which is expected to be complete in April 2017. With that project, GM said it was able to retain 150 jobs that might have gone elsewhere.

The new paint room expands the plant by 870,000 square feet.

“You need to be a part of what is happening. You need to watch it… to witness it. The caliber of competition we are facing, all these new cars, this is going to lead to some of the closest, most exciting racing ever. I can’t wait until the next race. Five years from now, this will be the year everyone will be talking about.”
-Tommy Milner

Detroit – A year ago, Corvette Racing stood on the top step of the podium after winning endurance racing’s biggest event for the eighth time. It’s now another season and another chance for Corvette Racing to claim victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Doing so will write another chapter in the team’s and Chevrolet’s racing history.

This marks the 17th consecutive Le Mans for Corvette Racing, which enters [...]