Cadillac Racing has made official its long-rumored partnership with Wayne Taylor Racing within the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship for 2025. WTR will run two Cadillac V-Sequence.Rs within the GTP class; along with longstanding Cadillac crew Motion Categorical Racing, it is going to mark a full-season three-car assault on the title.
Andretti World, which presently companions with WTR on an Acura GTP program below the WTRAndretti banner, was not talked about within the announcement. Staff principal Wayne Taylor tells RACER the identify change from WTRAndretti to WTR was accomplished on the request of Cadillac to each simplify the identify and to honor the longstanding, championship-winning heritage that exists between Taylor and Basic Motors in endurance racing.
“Cadillac Racing is thrilled to run an expanded three-car manufacturing unit program within the 2025 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship,” stated GM President Mark Reuss. “Wayne Taylor Racing and Motion Categorical Racing carry many years of confirmed racing and technical experience, and we look ahead to continued success on the monitor.”
GM’s motorsports historical past with Wayne Taylor dates to 1990 when the South African native turned his first laps within the U.S. in a Chevrolet-powered GTP automotive. He has achieved success as a driver and crew proprietor with a number of GM manufacturers together with Chevrolet and Cadillac. Throughout its earlier relationship with Cadillac (2017-’20), Wayne Taylor Racing received the Rolex 24 At Daytona 3 times (2017 and 2019-’20), two Petit Le Mans races (2018, 2020) and the Sebring 12 Hours (2017). In 2017, the crew set an unprecedented five-race win streak with the Cadillac DPi and went on to win the IMSA WeatherTech drivers and producers’ championships.
“I’m so glad to return to the Cadillac household,” stated Taylor, whose crew final raced for Cadillac in 2020. “Having teamed with GM for thus a few years, with so many wins and championships, and having loved such a unbelievable relationship with them, this world program we’ve put collectively couldn’t be extra thrilling. Now we have thrilling issues coming and I look ahead to discussing our business relationships within the coming months.”
Motion Categorical Racing, which captured the 2023 crew and driver championships within the inaugural yr of the brand new period of GTP, together with the Michelin Endurance Cup, will return in 2025 as Cadillac Whelen and can proceed to run the No. 31 Whelen Cadillac V-Sequence.R. Motion Categorical Racing has had an alliance with GM since 2012 in IMSA, initially with the Corvette DP and Chevrolet 5.5L V8 engine and since 2017 with Cadillac Racing’s DPi, with which the crew received the 2021 title, and GTP packages.
“All of us at Motion Categorical Racing are thrilled that Cadillac has chosen us once more to symbolize their iconic model,” stated crew supervisor Gary Nelson. “I’ve labored carefully with GM for my total profession in motorsports. Now we have all the time been impressed with the individuals we work with at Cadillac. We’re excited to compete for wins and championships on the highest degree of sports activities automotive racing in America.”
Drivers shall be named at a later date. A few of WTRAndretti’s present full-time lineup of Ricky Taylor, Filipe Albuquerque, Jordan Taylor and Louis Delétraz are believed to have contracts with HRC, and a few are contracted to the crew, though the period of such contracts is unknown.
Presently racing Cadillacs in IMSA for the complete season are Jack Aitken and Pipo Derani for Motion Categorical (though Derani is thought to be out for subsequent season) and Sebastien Bourdais and Renger van der Zande for Chip Ganassi Racing, which shall be dropping its Cadillac program on the finish of the yr. Bourdais and van der Zande are presently third within the championship, forward of Aitken and Derani in fourth, with two races left.
Cadillac had beforehand introduced that Hertz Staff JOTA can be operating a two-car V-Sequence.R program within the FIA World Endurance Championship starting in 2025.
This story has been up to date to replicate the change of crew identify.
