John Heinricy

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John Heinricy, Director High Performance Vehicle Operations, has elected to retire after 38 years of service with General Motors. John received a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in 197 and a masters in business administration from Michigan State University in 1985. John began his GM career in 1970 as a college-graduate-in-training with Chevrolet Motor Division in Warren. In 1979 John was named development engineer with Chevrolet at the Milford Proving Ground and became assistant staff engineer at Milford in 1981. He was promoted to Product Engineering Manager for the Chevrolet-Pontiac-GM of Canada Engineering Group in 1985, and became Vehicle Development Manager for the Corvette platform in 1989. In 1993 John was appointed Continuous Improvement Manager for the Chevrolet Corvette and then became Assistant Chief Engineer for the Corvette at the Midsize and Luxury Car Group. In 1997 he was named Chief Engineer for the Camaro and Firebird, and Director of Vehicle Dynamics for GM cars and trucks in 2001.

John has been very active in racing Chevrolet Corvettes, Camaros, and Pontiac Firebirds professionally since 1984 and has won 15 driving championships, including four professional. He was a member of the team that broke three world speed records in 1990 driving a Corvette ZR1, and drove one of the C5R Corvette race cars in GT2 competition.