NASCAR Xfinity runner-up Connor Zilisch will drive an LMDh prototype for the primary time within the IMSA-sanctioned take a look at at Daytona.
The 19-year-old will share the #31 Motion Categorical Racing Cadillac V-Collection.R with Jack Aitken, Earl Bamber and Frederik Vesti on the Daytona Worldwide Speedway on 14-16 November.
The American, who has already scored two LMP2 class victories within the IMSA SportsCar Championship, is being evaluated for a GTP drive with the manufacturing facility Cadillac squad for subsequent yr’s season-opening Daytona 24 Hours.
“Hopefully, we’re going to take advantage of it and see if this may result in extra alternatives for me within the Cadillac, as a result of it might be tremendous cool for me to have the ability to race on the highest ranges of endurance racing,” he mentioned. “That’s all the time been a dream of mine.”
The announcement of the Daytona take a look at comes simply days after it emerged that Zilisch was denied an opportunity to drive the Cadillac LMDh within the World Endurance Championship’s Bahrain rookie take a look at attributable to an absence of ACCUS (Vehicle Competitors Committee for the US) license factors.
#31 Cadillac Motion Categorical Cadillac V- Collection.R: Jack Aitken, Earl Bamber, Frederik Vesti
Photograph by: Artwork Fleischmann
Zilisch was the favorite for this yr’s Xfinity title, however was denied the highest prize by Jesse Love attributable to NASCAR’s more and more controversial playoff system.
The title loss additionally led to him failing to build up the mandatory ACCUS license factors required for the Bahrain take a look at.
{The teenager} is ready to maneuver as much as the NASCAR Cup Collection in 2026 with Trackhouse Racing, the place he’s tipped to interchange Daniel Suarez.
Cadillac Formulation 1 reserve Colton Herta, who’s switching to F2 subsequent yr to pursue his ambitions in grand prix racing, may also be driving the V-Collection.R for the primary time within the Daytona take a look at.
Herta, who gained the 2024 Sebring 12 Hours for Acura and in addition has race expertise within the BMW M Hybrid V8, will drive for Wayne Taylor Racing within the official IMSA take a look at on the well-known Florida venue.
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