The IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship collection finale, Motul Petit Le Mans, will characteristic 54 vehicles, the utmost quantity that Michelin Raceway Street Atlanta can accommodate. The ten-hour race, set for Oct. 12 on the two.54 mile, 12-turn circuit, will decide not solely the full-season champions in each class, however the Michelin Endurance Cup winners as properly.
That quantity consists of 13 vehicles within the GTD PRO class, as many entries as the category has seen and a quantity matched by GTD PRO entries within the Rolex 24 At Daytona and the TireRack.com Battle on the Bricks at Indianapolis. Other than the same old suspects, that quantity features a Ferrari 296 GT3 entry from DragonSpeed, which entered GTD at Indy and has declared its intent to run GTD for 2025. Toni Vilander is the one driver listed on the entry up to now.
As well as, Coronary heart of Racing is as soon as once more selling its GTD squad to GTD PRO with a purpose to bolster its possibilities for drivers, group and producers championships. Zacharie Robichon, Mario Farnbacher and Marco Sorensen will pilot the No. 027 Aston Martin Vantage Evo. In the meantime, Roman De Angelis, who has been the lead driver for the GTD entry this season, strikes to the No. 23, becoming a member of Ross Gunn and Alex Riberas.
All through the remainder of the sphere, which will increase by two vehicles over final yr’s Petit Le Mans, the common full-season and Michelin Endurance Cup entries embody the Lamborghini Iron Lynx SC63 in GTP that confirmed so properly at Indy. That brings the GTP whole to 11, together with Iron Lynx’s GTD PRO and GTD entries. The Rolex 24-winning Risi Competizione No. 62 Ferrari 296 returns, seeking to bounce again from an unmemorable race at Indy.
The GTP championship is nearly actually going to fall to Dane Cameron and Felipe Nasr within the No. 7 Porsche Penske Motorsports 963 after the post-Indy penalty for the sister automobile modified what had been a useless warmth to a 124-point hole, though it’s actually attainable for Mathieu Jaminet and Nick Tandy to beat the deficit at Street Atlanta. The Michelin Endurance Cup is a three-way struggle between the No. 7 PPM Porsche, the No. 01 Cadillac Racing V-Collection.R and the No. 31 Whelen Cadillac Racing entry. The No. 25 BMW M Staff RLL M Hybrid V8 and the No. 6 PPM squad even have a shot.
LMP2 options 10 entries as that championship goes all the way down to the wire. Nick Boulle and Tom Dillmann have a wholesome lead within the general factors for Inter Europol by PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports, 98 factors over Riley Motorsports’ Gar Robinson and Felipe Fraga. The Michelin Endurance Cup, although, is extensive open in that class between Inter Europol and TDS Racing tied for first, and Period Motorsports shut behind.
AO Racing’s 99-point benefit in GTD PRO will likely be powerful to beat, however with a 13-car discipline, it’s actually attainable for Coronary heart of Racing’s Gunn to overhaul Laurin Heinrich within the championship. Paul Miller Racing leads the IMEC within the class by 5 factors over AO Racing and Risi Competizione, tied for second.
When Winward Racing takes the inexperienced flag, it should have wrapped up its first GTD championship for the group and for drivers Russell Ward and Philip Ellis. With the assistance of Korthoff Preston Motorsports including to Winward’s 4 victories, Mercedes AMG has already wrapped up the producers’ championship in GTD, the one title determined previous to the finale. The IMEC title in GTD remains to be open, with Inception Racing solely some extent behind Winward, and Korthoff Preston, Wright Motorsports and Triarsi Comeptizione all having a shot.
The ten-hour twenty seventh Motul Petit Le Mans is scheduled for a inexperienced flag at 12:10pm on Saturday, Oct. 12. Michelin Pilot Problem, VP Racing SportsCar Problem, Porsche Carrera Cup North America and Whelen Mazda MX-5 Cup are additionally on the weekend invoice.
