Cadillac WTR Confirms Two-Car Driver Lineups

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Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing has finalized its driver lineup for the 2025 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season, naming full-time, Michelin Endurance Cup and additional fourth pilots for the season-opening Rolex 24 at Daytona.

The Indianapolis-based team will utilize the same core four-driver squad as it transitions from Acura to Cadillac LMDh machinery in the GTP class next year, with Ricky Taylor and Filipe Albuquerque in the No. 10 Cadillac V-Series.R and Jordan Taylor and Louis Deletraz aboard the No. 40 entry.

Former WTR driver Will Stevens, meanwhile, will join Taylor and Albuquerque for the Rolex 24 at Daytona, Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring and Motul Petit Le Mans, with Brendon Hartley returning for the Rolex 24.

“I’m excited for the No. 10 lineup in 2025,” said team principal Wayne Taylor. “Three of the four drivers have been with us at least four years and working together.

“Adding in Will Stevens for the endurance races will be a big advantage as well. All four drivers understand the setups and are used to working closely together – a necessity for winning in Daytona and for being on top in this incredibly close championship.”

Both full season drivers previously drove for the Cadillac brand in the WeatherTech Championship.

“It’s fantastic to return to driving for GM/Cadillac,” said Albuquerque. “Since I started racing in America in the overall class, it was with the Chevy DP in 2016, then I did another four years with Cadillac DPi and now to be back is amazing. I am really looking forward to returning ‘back home’.”

Ricky Taylor added: “The relationship with GM goes back as long as the Taylor family has been in America. My dad came to America to drive the Chevy Spice for Pratt Miller. GM and WTR have had so much success together, but the relationship between each of the Taylors and GM have highlighted our careers.”

The No. 40 Cadillac, meanwhile, will see Alex Lynn join Taylor and Deletraz for the three Endurance Cup rounds, with Kamui Kobayashi joining the trio for the season-opener.

Kobayashi, a Toyota factory driver and team principal in the FIA World Endurance Championship, is a two-time Rolex 24 winner with WTR.

“The No. 40 car is an exciting driver line up as well,” added Wayne Taylor. “Louis and Jordan are back together again, and Alex Lynn will be helping with the endurance races.

“Alex has worked with us before, helping us win the Twelve Hours of Sebring back in 2017.

“Kamui Kobayashi’s abilities speak for themselves, having run with us before and won the Rolex 24 twice, once with Jordan.

“Everyone in this group works to get the job done, no egos – it is what wins races, especially the Rolex 24.”

Both Lynn and Stevens, who are in Endurance Cup-only roles with Cadillac WTR, are expected to be also part of Hertz Team JOTA’s full-season Cadillac lineup in the WEC as well.

“I am very much looking forward to being back with Wayne Taylor Racing and starting this new venture with Cadillac Racing,” said Stevens. “It’s going to be an exciting partnership and one that has all the ingredients to be a huge success.”

Lynn added: “WTR has always been a team that sets the standard in North American sportscar racing and are always there to win in the big moments. I’m also very excited to be back working with Ricky and Jordan as well as Filipe and Louis, all four world class drivers and ready to win the big races.”

Kobayashi, meanwhile, said his return to WTR feels like a “homecoming.”

“I am really appreciative not only to WTR and Cadillac to give me another opportunity to race for them, but also Morizo-san [Akio Toyoda] and Toyota Gazoo Racing for allowing me to compete in this historic event in the United States,” he said.

John Dagys

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