GM rotates its motorsports managers
General Motors is rotating its sports car management team, with longtime GM Sports Car Racing program manager Laura Wontrop Klauser and Corvette Z06 GT3.R program manager Christie Bagne moving back to the production side of the company.
In a statement on the move, GM stated that, “Motorsports is a platform to hone engineering and leadership skills in a fast-paced highly competitive race environment. Rotating team members back into production and corporate programs is part of our core ‘why we race’ mission. Having experience in motorsports programs helps to enrich our team members’ careers and make GM a stronger company.”
At the conclusion of the 2024 season, Klauser will join the Global Hardware Systems and Integration Team as Engineering Group Leader. Concurrently, Bagne will transition to Corporate Strategy as a Senior Analyst. The final race for both will be this weekend’s World Endurance Championship finale in Bahrain.
Keely Bosn, currently Future Tech & Mobility Planning Manager in the Competitor Intelligence, Technology and Mobility Planning organization at GM, will join GM Motorsports as the Cadillac Racing Program Manager. Jessica Dane, currently the Motorsports Integration Manager in GM Motorsports, will become the Corvette Racing Program Manager for all Corvette GT3 programs.
Klauser started in the motorsports side of GM in 2016 as Cadillac was fielding the ATS-V.R in World Challenge before the Cadillac DPi program came online, and helped launch the Camaro GT4.R. She became sports car program manager in 2021, spearheading Cadillac’s LMDh program as well as the Corvette Z06 GT3.R. Cadillac took the driver, team and manufacturers titles in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship GTP category last year, across both the full-season championship and the Michelin Endurance Cup.
Bagne moved from system capability engineer to assistant sports car program manager in 2021, assuming the role of Corvette Z06 GT3.R Program in January 2023 as GM was about to release its first customer GT3 car. The Z06 GT3.R found victory lane in both IMSA GTD PRO and Fanatec GT World Challenge America in its inaugural season, as well as carried Orey Fidani to the Bob Akin Award in the GTD category.
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