WTRAndretti Could Run Second Lambo GTD as Prep for 2025

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Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti has not ruled out the possibility of running a second Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2 in selected IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship races later this year ahead of a targeted two-car full season program in 2025.

The Indianapolis-based squad, which doubled its GTP effort with Acura this year, could do the same with its upstart Lamborghini GTD class program in 2025 according to the team’s Vice President and general manager Travis Houge.

“We were prepared to run two cars this year but there was a shortage of entry [spares] and doing all this, we opted into moving more into a testing program with the other car,” Houge told Sportscar365.

“We will be getting another car in another month or so and we’re working on putting that together.

“Ultimately the goal is going to be to have two cars in GTP, two cars in GTD and then a five-car Lamborghini [Super Trofeo] field.

“It’s crazy to think that in 2015 we had one car with ten people. And now we’re looking at having ten cars with 110 people.”

Houge said a testing program with the second car will likely come after this weekend’s Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring.

It will include team regular Ashton Harrison, who joined No. 45 full-season drivers Kyle Marcelli and Danny Formal and Michelin Endurance Cup pilot Graham Doyle in January’s season-opening Rolex 24 at Daytona.

Houge said the goal of the second car is to build it around Silver-rated driver Harrison.

“The goal is to get everybody through Sebring,” he said. “Everybody’s got enough on their plate and then we’ll start testing.

“We’ll see what events we may do. If there’s an opening for an event [this year], we may throw that other car in. But there’s a lot of pieces.

“There’s the partners that we have to work with, there’s Lamborghini we have to work with and then it’s building the team.

“We got lucky on finding the people that we have. We’re still looking for people for this program.

“Adding another car right now, we’d need to be 100 percent on everything we have before I can really say that we’re ready to move on to the next car.”

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