This time in Jay Leno's Garage, Jay is taking the wheel of a sort of classic Corvette racer. In 1962, Chevrolet built just five Grand Sport racers. Some of the most valuable 'Vettes ever built, the race-ready cars sported somewhere in the range of 550 hp, used thinner fibreglass to cut weight...

We've seen the ZR1 hit its 212 mph top speed, Jay Leno has driven it over 200 mph on a banked circuit, and owners are treated to track driving lessons at Spring Mountain circuit in Nevada, but the Corvette has always been a real car, not a hypercar destined to see two miles of actual road use...