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4 Cadillacs attainable at Le Mans as WTR, AXR file entries
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4 Cadillacs attainable at Le Mans as WTR, AXR file entries

Motorsports January 24, 2025
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Cadillac may have as many as 4 LMDhs on the Le Mans 24 Hours with the affirmation that Wayne Taylor Racing and Motion Specific Racing have filed entries.

The Basic Motors model’s representatives within the IMSA SportsCar Championship in North America have revealed that they’ve every made a bid to run a solo V-Sequence.R within the Hypercar class on the centrepiece spherical of the World Endurance Championship on 14/15 June.

If profitable, they might be a part of the 2 full-season WEC entries from Jota, which has taken over the world championship programme from Chip Ganassi Racing for 2025.

It will imply an elevated Le Mans presence for Cadillac over the three automobiles it fielded in 2023 and ’24 when Motion Specific campaigned a V-Sequence.R and Ganassi introduced an additional automobile to bolster its single full-season WEC entry.

WTR boss Wayne Taylor has by no means made any secret of a want to take his crew to Le Mans, explaining that it was one of many causes for his swap again to Cadillac from Acura in IMSA for this season.

“GM is placing each effort into getting us into Le Mans,” Taylor instructed Motorsport.com.

“I’m not saying we consider we’re going, however I’m very hopeful. Taking the crew to Le Mans for the primary time is an enormous factor for me.”

#311 Whelen Cadillac Racing Cadillac V-Sequence.R: Pipo Derani, Jack Aitken, Felipe Drugovich

Picture by: Emanuele Clivati | AG Picture

Motion Specific crew supervisor Gary Nelson outlined his want to take a automobile to Le Mans for a 3rd yr in a row.

“We’re doing what we are able to, however we perceive that going to Le Mans is by invitation,” he mentioned.

“We’ve been for the previous two years and if we return we’ll benefit from these two years of expertise. We’d really feel effectively ready if we’re invited this yr.”

There seems to be room for the extra Hypercar entries at Le Mans after the full-season entry for the WEC dropped by one automobile from 19 to 18 for 2025.

Final yr’s Le Mans grid was bolstered by the Motion Specific and Ganassi entries, in addition to by one Hypercar from the Iron Lynx Lamborghini crew and one from the Porsche Penske Motorsport squad.

Two additional Caddys and one from Porsche, which has an automated invite after profitable the IMSA title final yr, would imply there could be 21 Hypercars at Le Mans this yr, two down on final yr’s 23.

The complete entry for Le Mans this yr can be revealed within the wake of the ultimate two rounds of the Asian Le Mans Sequence at Abu Dhabi on 15 and 16 February when the auto entries from the sequence are decided.

Taylor revealed that Jota would help a WTR Le Mans bid by way of personnel, stating that he has offered the identical back-up for the British crew prior to now when it has contested the Daytona 24 Hours IMSA spherical.

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