Hertz Staff JOTA will take over Cadillac Racing’s FIA WEC Hypercar effort in 2025 and function an expanded two-car manufacturing facility program with the V-Sequence.R.
With this main shift, the UK-based staff will change change life as a privateer with Porsche for a manufacturing facility take care of GM, taking up Chip Ganassi Racing as Cadillac’s WEC service supplier. The transfer coincides with the introduction of a brand new two-car mandate for producers competing within the FIA WEC for 2025.
JOTA and Cadillac’s new-look staff might be known as Cadillac Hertz Staff JOTA and never Cadillac Racing, the staff title used for the reason that begin of the 2023 season when CGR and Cadillac joined the WEC’s prime class.
“Cadillac is proud to be racing towards one of the best on the planet as a part of the FIA World Endurance Championship, and that features Hertz Staff JOTA,” mentioned John Roth, vp, World Cadillac.
“We’re thrilled to welcome Hertz Staff JOTA subsequent 12 months, bringing a long time of racing and technical experience collectively, to realize continued success on the monitor and create new advocates for our model across the globe.”
This effort for JOTA might be its first as a manufacturing facility operation and comes after greater than a decade of success in LMP2 competitors. Its stint in P2 included a number of Le Mans class wins and 10 podium finishes at La Sarthe between 2014 and 2022.
JOTA additionally has an general WEC race win to its title since stepping as much as the WEC’s prime class in 2023. Again in Could, it turned the primary (and thus far solely) privateer Hypercar staff to win a WEC race general within the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps.
“JOTA has all the time strived to develop into a producer staff, so now becoming a member of forces with Cadillac is the belief of this purpose,” mentioned Sam Hignett, director and founder, Hertz Staff JOTA. “Having competed towards the Cadillac V-Sequence.R for the final two seasons, we’ve skilled how aggressive it’s and we’re genuinely honored to be entrusted with fielding its automobiles from 2025 onward.
“We’re within the privileged place to have loved record-breaking success within the FIA World Endurance Championship, particularly at Le Mans, and we’re very a lot trying ahead to persevering with this success with Cadillac and Hertz.”
Affirmation of the Chip Ganassi Racing-JOTA swap within the WEC comes months after the GM model first opted to chop ties with CGR following the 2024 season. That call, first revealed by RACER again in March, got here to mild when CGR opted to make the cut up public.
“We’d by no means shut the e-book on Basic Motors when it comes to the long run,” CGR managing director Mike Hull instructed RACER’s Marshall Pruett on the time. “We simply know that this chapter is ending.”
Cadillac’s subsequent seek for a brand new Hypercar service supplier was prolonged. RACER understands that the choice course of featured at the least two different high-profile groups.
Drivers for JOTA’s pair of V-Sequence.Rs might be introduced in the end, together with a proper unveiling of the staff that can substitute Ganassi in IMSA GTP.
Acura’s present manufacturing facility staff, WTRAndretti, is extensively anticipated to be named as a 2025 Cadillac manufacturing facility staff in North America alongside Motion Specific.
