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[[Image:Corvette C6R Road America 3.jpg|thumb|right|175px|A [[Chevrolet Corvette C6.R]].]]
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[[Image:Cadillac CTS-V SWC.jpg|thumb|right|175px|A [[Cadillac CTS-V]].]]
[[Image:TRG GTO.jpg|thumb|right|175px|A [[Pontiac GTO]].R.]]
'''Pratt & Miller Engineering and Fabrication''' is a company formed by Gary Pratt and Jim Miller in 1989.


Based out of [[New Hudson]], [[Michigan]], they have been one of [[General Motors]] official [[auto racing|racing]] teams since 1999 when they were key in the development of the [[Chevrolet Corvette C5-R]].  Today, Pratt & Miller constructs, maintains, and runs the [[American Le Mans Series]] [[Chevrolet Corvette|Corvette]] Racing team with [[Chevrolet Corvette C6.R]]s as well as the [[Speed World Challenge]] Team [[Cadillac]] [[Cadillac CTS-V|CTS-V]]s.  The company also builds and maintains the [[Pontiac GTO]].Rs and [[Pontiac G6|Pontiac GXP.R]]s for various teams in the [[Rolex Sports Car Series]].  The company also did work on the development of the [[Qvale Mangusta]] and [[Ford GT]].
Since their alliance with General Motors, Pratt & Miller have won numerous championships and famous racing events.  Corvette Racing has won their class at the [[24 Hours of Le Mans]] five times, claimed the overall victory at the [[24 Hours of Daytona]] in 2001, and won seven straight American Le Mans Series championships.  Team Cadillac won the 2005 Speed World Challenge in the team's debut season, while [[The Racer's Group]], running Pratt & Miller-built Pontiac GTO.Rs, won the [[Rolex Sports Car Series]] championship in 2006.  GM Racing's tuned LS7.R small-block engine was also named the 2006 Global Motorsport Engine of the Year.
Pratt & Miller developed a road-going [[car tuning|tuned]] version of the [[Chevrolet Corvette C6]] named C6RS.
==External links==
* [http://prattmiller.com/ Pratt & Miller Engineering and Fabrication]
* [http://www.corvetteracing.com/ Corvette Racing]
* [http://www.cadillac.com/cadillacjsp/spotlight/teamcadillac/index.jsp Team Cadillac]
* [http://www.pontiac.com/divisional/newsevents/news_motorsports.jsp Pontiac Motorsport]
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[[Category:Companies established in 1989]]
[[Category:American auto racing teams]]
[[Category:General Motors]]
[[Category:Chevrolet Corvette]]
[[Category:Chevrolet Corvette]]
[[Category:24 Hours of Le Mans entrants]]
[[Category:American Le Mans Series teams]]

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