One of the really nice things about CTS-V is that it has benefitted from a really good road racing program in recent years. Cadillac won two of the last three Manufacturer’s Championships in the SPEED World Challenge GT series. This is a terrific production-based road racing series operated by the SCCA, and it’s been a very good experience for Cadillac and helped influence and improve our “street” car quite a bit. The production CTS-V is of course on a one-year hiatus now as we prepare the all-new 2009 CTS-V that we’re working on now. Naturally, it was tempting for some to assume that this might mean the CTS-V would depart from racing. That is absolutely not the case – the CTS-V is back in SPEED World Challenge for 2008 under the management of the brand new Team Remington Cadillac.

The new season starts Friday at Sebring. Andy Pilgrim (series champion in the Cadillac in 2005) and Michael McCann are the drivers. And we’re pulling for them! OK, I’ll admit I’m a sports car racing nut. But I suspect some of you are, too. So here’s my commercial: Go to www.worldchallenge.com for more details on the 10-race series carried on SPEED TV. Set your TiVo . . . these races make for especially good TV viewing as they are 45 minutes long, normally with all sorts of action, lots of passing and some tremendous cars and drivers (Porsche, Cadillac, Corvette, Viper, etc.)