Cadillac Formulation 1 check driver Colton Herta will race for the American producer in three IMSA SportsCar Championship endurance contests subsequent yr.
Herta will dovetail his F1 duties and an F2 marketing campaign driving for Hitech with appearances on the start-of-season Daytona 24 Hours and Sebring 12 Hours IMSA rounds, plus the season-closing Petit Le Mans occasion at Street Atlanta.
They may are available in a Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac V-Collection.R LMDh, which the 25-year-old American will share with full-season drivers Jordan Taylor and Louis Deletraz within the GTP class.
Herta shall be renewing a relationship with Wayne Taylor’s staff. He contested the identical schedule of occasions in 2024 aboard an Acura ARX-06 LMDh at a time when WTR was partnered with the Andretti staff for which he was racing in IndyCar.
The programme of occasions yielded victory for Herta at Sebring along with Taylor and Deletraz. Herta stated: “Tremendous excited to affix Cadillac WTR for the endurance rounds subsequent yr.
“We had some success final time I used to be with the staff, and I hope to proceed that. Jordan and Louis are a number of the greatest drivers within the enterprise, and it’s a pleasure to affix them on this journey.”
#40 Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti Acura ARX-06: Jordan Taylor, Louis Deletraz, Colton Herta
Photograph by: Jake Galstad / Motorsport Pictures
Wayne Taylor added: “We’re delighted that Colton can be a part of Jordan and Louis within the #40 Cadillac WTR V-Collection.R for the endurance occasions. The trio has been a terrific match and had nice success working collectively in 2024. Our staff has a lot positivity going into 2026.”
The signing of Herta, who additionally raced BMW’s M Hybrid V8 LMDh at Daytona in 2023, got here similtaneously Cadillac confirming its full roster for the 2026 IMSA GTP marketing campaign. The total-season line-ups throughout the 2 WTR entries and the Motion Categorical Racing automobile are unchanged.
Ricky Taylor and Filipe Albuquerque will proceed within the #10 WTR Caddy and shall be once more joined by Will Stevens, who races for the Jota Cadillac squad within the World Endurance Championship, for Daytona, Sebring and Petit Le Mans.
Jack Aitken and Earl Bamber have been named because the full-season pairing for the #31 Motion Categorical V-Collection.R, with Frederik Vesti the third driver for the 5 rounds that make up the IMSA Endurance Cup.
Vesti can even race for the staff on the April Lengthy Seashore IMSA fixture, a conflict with the Imola WEC spherical at which Bamber shall be racing for Jota. This yr, WTR used 4 drivers at Daytona in January, Toyota WEC regulars Brendon Hartley and Kamui Kobayashi racing #10 and #40 respectively.
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