NASCAR Xfinity runner-up Connor Zilisch will drive an LMDh prototype for the primary time within the IMSA-sanctioned check at Daytona.
The 19-year-old will share the #31 Motion Specific Racing Cadillac V-Sequence.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 12 months’s season-opening Daytona 24 Hours.
“Hopefully, we’re going to profit from it and see if this will 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 check 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 check resulting from a scarcity of ACCUS (Vehicle Competitors Committee for america) license factors.
#31 Cadillac Motion Specific Cadillac V- Sequence.R: Jack Aitken, Earl Bamber, Frederik Vesti
Photograph by: Artwork Fleischmann
Zilisch was the favorite for this 12 months’s Xfinity title, however was denied the highest prize by Jesse Love resulting from NASCAR’s more and more controversial playoff system.
The title loss additionally led to him failing to build up the required ACCUS license factors required for the Bahrain check.
{The teenager} is about to maneuver as much as the NASCAR Cup Sequence in 2026 with Trackhouse Racing, the place he’s tipped to switch Daniel Suarez.
Cadillac Method 1 reserve Colton Herta, who’s switching to F2 subsequent 12 months to pursue his ambitions in grand prix racing, can even be driving the V-Sequence.R for the primary time within the Daytona check.
Herta, who received the 2024 Sebring 12 Hours for Acura and likewise has race expertise within the BMW M Hybrid V8, will drive for Wayne Taylor Racing within the official IMSA check on the well-known Florida venue.
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