2025 IMSA SportsCar Championship
Appearance
The 2025 IMSA SportsCar Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the 2025 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship) is a planned motor racing championship, set to be the 55th racing season sanctioned by the International Motor Sports Association, which traces its lineage back to the 1971 IMSA GT Championship. It will also be the twelfth season of the IMSA SportsCar Championship since the merger between the American Le Mans Series and the Rolex Sports Car Series in 2014, and the tenth under the sponsorship of WeatherTech.
Classes
- Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) (LMDh and LMH)
- Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2)
- GT Daytona Pro (GTD Pro)
- GT Daytona (GTD)
Schedule
The provisional schedule was released on March 15, 2024, and features an unchanged 11 rounds.[1][2]
Race is part of the Michelin Endurance Cup
Entries
Grand Touring Prototype (GTP)
Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2)
In accordance with the 2017 LMP2 regulations, all cars in the LMP2 class use the Gibson GK428 V8 engine.[14]
Team | Chassis | No. | Drivers | Rounds |
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Algarve Pro Racing[3] | Oreca 07 | 04 | TBA | TBC |
TBA | ||||
TBA | ||||
United Autosports[15] | Oreca 07 | 2 | TBA | TBC |
TBA | ||||
TBA | ||||
22 | Dan Goldburg[16] | TBC | ||
TBA | ||||
TBA | ||||
Tower Motorsports[17] | Oreca 07 | 8 | TBA | TBC |
TBA | ||||
TBA | ||||
TDS Racing[18] | Oreca 07 | 11 | Mikkel Jensen[18] | TBC |
Steven Thomas[18] | ||||
TBA | ||||
Era Motorsport[19] | Oreca 07 | 18 | TBA | TBC |
TBA | ||||
TBA | ||||
Inter Europol Competition[20] | Oreca 07 | 43 | TBA | TBC |
TBA | ||||
TBA | ||||
PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports[21] | Oreca 07 | 52 | TBA | TBC |
TBA | ||||
TBA | ||||
Pratt Miller Motorsports[3] | Oreca 07 | 73 | TBA | TBC |
TBA | ||||
TBA | ||||
Riley[22] | Oreca 07 | 74 | Josh Burdon[22] | TBC |
Felipe Fraga[22] | ||||
Gar Robinson[22] | ||||
AF Corse[23] | Oreca 07 | 88 | TBA | TBC |
TBA | ||||
TBA | ||||
AO Racing[24] | Oreca 07 | 99 | TBA | TBC |
TBA | ||||
TBA |
GT Daytona (GTD Pro / GTD)
References
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