DETROIT — Cadillac Racing’s driver roster for the 2025 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season includes a lineup of experienced and championship-winning drivers.
Is 2025, Cadillac Racing expands its factory program from two to three cars for the third year of Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) competition that starts January 25-26 with the Rolex 24 At Daytona at Daytona (Fla.) Int’l Speedway. Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing will run two cars, while Action Express Racing will run one car as Cadillac Whelen.
Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing (No. 10)
• Ricky Taylor, Filipe Albuquerque (full season; photo)
• Will Stevens (Daytona, Sebring, Road Atlanta)
• Brendon Hartley (Daytona)
Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing (No. 40)
• Jordan Taylor, Louis Deletraz (full season; photo)
• Alex Lynn (Daytona, Sebring, Road Atlanta)
• Kamui Kobayashi (Daytona)
Cadillac Whelen (No. 31)
• Earl Bamber, Jack Aitken (full season; photo)
• Frederik Vesti (endurance races)
The lineup represents seven FIA World Endurance Championship LMP1/Hypercar championships, eight Rolex 24 At Daytona overall victories (six with Cadillac Racing) and 11 24 Hours of Le Mans overall/class victories among other significant accomplishments.
The Nos. 10 and 40 Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing full-time roster is unchanged from this season in which the team posted two victories and two other podium finishes with another manufacturer. Deletraz and Jordan Taylor teamed for victory in the 12-hour race at Sebring while Albuquerque and Ricky Taylor won the 100-minute sprint on the streets of Detroit.
FIA WEC
FIA WEC 2024 full-season Hypercar drivers Bamber, Lynn, Hartley, Stevens and Kobayashi will compete in the season finale Nov. 2 at the Bahrain International Circuit. Kobayashi returns to Cadillac Racing for the Daytona season opener after a two-year absence.
Aitken returns for his second full season and third overall in the No. 31 Whelen Cadillac V-Series.R run by Action Express Racing, which recorded four pole starts and three runner-up finishes this past season. Bamber, who has driven the No. 2 Cadillac V-Series.R the past two seasons in the WEC, is no stranger to IMSA competition. The 2019 IMSA GTLM champion co-drove a Cadillac DPi-V.R to victory in 2022 at Sebring and this past season drove a Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports Corvette Z06 GT3.R in GTD Pro class endurance races.
Vesti, the 2023 FIA Formula 2 Championship vice-champion, will make his IMSA GTP debut at Daytona.