Wayne Taylor Racing will return to Team Cadillac after a four-year hiatus to field two teams within the IMSA SportsCar Championship next yr.
Cadillac has finally revealed to the general public what was already an open secret on Thursday, confirming that reigning IMSA champion Action Express Racing will proceed to field a solo V-Series.R within the GTP class in 2025.
The WTR team, which partnered with Andretti Global last yr, joins from Acura after leaving Cadillac at the top of the 2020 season.
It replaces Chip Ganassi Racing, which announced in March that it could not proceed its partnership with Cadillac in either IMSA or the World Endurance Championship next season.
The announcement means the General Motors brand is expanding its IMSA racing automobile line-up to 3 for the brand new season, after reducing it to 2 in the beginning of the GTP era last yr.
GM President Mark Reuss said, “Cadillac Racing is worked up to launch an expanded three-car factory program within the 2025 IMSA Championship.
“Wayne Taylor Racing and Action Express Racing have decades of proven racing and engineering experience and we look forward to continued success on the track.”
WTR CEO Wayne Taylor, who has been with GM for greater than 30 years, said: “I’m very completely satisfied to be returning to the Cadillac family.
#10 Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti Acura ARX-06: Ricky Taylor, Filipe Albuquerque, #40 Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti Acura ARX-06: Jordan Taylor, Louis Deletraz, #01 Cadillac Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac V-Series.R: Renger van der Zande, Sebastien Bourdais
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“Having worked with GM for so many years, so many wins and championships, and having such a fantastic relationship with the company, this global program we’ve created couldn’t be more exciting.”
Neither team has announced the name of any driver yet.
Confirmation of Cadillac’s IMSA plans for 2025 follows the announcement that the Jota team will turn into the brand’s works partner within the WEC next yr.
Taylor began his association with GM by racing a Chevrolet-powered Intrepid GTP in IMSA in 1991, then won the 24 Hours of Daytona and the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1996 driving an Oldsmobile V8-powered Riley & Scott MkIII for his Doyle Racing team.
He later was a partner within the 3GR organization that developed and ran the Cadillac Northstar LMP cars that competed within the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the American Le Mans Series in 2001 and 2002.
WTR won the Grand American Road Racing Series title in 2014 driving the Dallara-Chevrolet Corvette Daytona Prototype, then won the Daytona race in 2017, 2019 and 2020 driving the Cadillac DPi-VR
Taylor’s use of the term “global programme” almost actually refers to his ambition to take WTR to Le Mans for the primary time.
He added in his statement that “exciting things are coming.”
Action Express bolstered the Caddy WEC offensive at Le Mans in each of the primary two seasons of the V-Series.R.
