Certainly one of IMSA’s hottest groups finds itself at a turning level as Canada’s Pfaff Motorsports is looking for traders to infuse its WeatherTech SportsCar Championship effort with funding to proceed in GTD PRO, or the onboarding of a funded bronze-rated driver to take its No. 9 McLaren 720S GT3 EVO to GTD in 2025.
With out one or the opposite, the plaid-loving crew which gained the 2021 GTD championship and the 2022 GTD PRO title is going through the upcoming have to shutter this system after subsequent week’s season finale, Motul Petit Le Mans.
“We have now a very unbelievable group of people that make this crew what it’s, and as one of many few commercially funded groups, now we have unbelievable companions which have renewed their dedication to us for 2025,” Pfaff GM Steve Bortolotti instructed RACER. “However we’re additionally having to make some changes to the enterprise construction of the crew, and that’s why we’re actively in search of both an investor who desires to be a part of the crew possession, or to take the McLaren to GTD with a bronze driver.”
Since becoming a member of IMSA as a full-time entrant in 2019, the Toronto-based Pfaff squad has solidified its place as one of many sequence’ finest GT entrants with the back-to-back championships and runs inside the highest 5 in each different season, which features a victory finally yr’s Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring.
The crew moved to representing McLaren in 2024 and has earned a pair of podiums with the twin-turbo V8-powered supercar utilizing the season-long pairing of Oliver Jarvis and Martin Kirchhofer, and James Hinchcliffe on the endurance occasions.
“We’re wanting ahead to having conversations with people or firms who could also be involved in becoming a member of forces for 2025,” Bortolotti mentioned.
