The IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship is gearing up for its return to Indianapolis Motor Speedway, revealing a stacked 44-car entry checklist for the upcoming TireRack.com Battle on the Bricks.
Scheduled for September 20, the occasion serves because the penultimate spherical of the season and marks the championship’s first sprint-format contest at The Brickyard since 2023. The four-class subject will contest a two-hour, 40-minute race.
The entry checklist particulars a deep subject comprising 11 Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) machines, 10 LMP2 entries, 10 GTD Professional vehicles, and 13 GTD entries.
The largest shakeup on the grid comes within the headlining GTP class, the place driver modifications at Porsche spotlight the entry checklist. Laurin Heinrich, at the moment second within the championship, returns to the manufacturing facility Porsche Penske Motorsport line-up, changing Laurens Vanthoor within the No. 6 Porsche 963. The cascade impact sees Nico Müller take over Heinrich’s former seat within the #5 JDC-Miller Motorsports Porsche 963, becoming a member of full-season driver Tijmen van der Helm.
Within the LMP2 class, 10 vehicles are set to compete. Period Motorsport makes its return to dash competitors, itemizing FIA Bronze-rated driver Nick Boulle alongside a second driver but to be introduced. Intersport Racing stays absent from the checklist. Each groups beforehand sat out the one different LMP2 dash race of the 12 months at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park in July, making Period’s comeback a key storyline for the category.
Stability reigns throughout the GT ranks, with GTD Professional and GTD carrying over their lineups immediately from the current Michelin GT Problem at Virginia Worldwide Raceway. The GTD Professional subject contains the #68 YRB Racing Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo pushed by Valentin Hasse-Clot and Marco Sorensen, who maintain their spot within the premier production-based class.
The Indianapolis spherical is the penultimate occasion earlier than the season finale, growing the significance of the remaining championship factors.
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