DETROIT — Continuity and experience highlight Cadillac Racing’s driver roster for the 2026 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season.
Cadillac Racing enters its fourth year of Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) competition with its three-car lineup campaigned by Wayne Taylor Racing and Action Express Racing, which earned victories in the final two races of the 2025 IMSA season.
Eight drivers return to challenge for 2026 championships in addition to Cadillac Formula 1 Team test driver Colton Herta rejoining Wayne Taylor Racing for three endurance races.
Herta, 25, who will join the Cadillac Formula 1 Team as a test driver and FIA Formula 2 competitor with Hitech Racing in 2026, contested three IMSA endurance races in 2024 with Wayne Taylor Racing, co-driving with Jordan Taylor and Louis Deletraz to the overall victory in the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring and earning a GTP class podium in the Rolex 24 At Daytona.
Herta also won the GTLM class in 2019 and LMP2 class in 2022 in the season-opening race at Daytona International Speedway.
The No. 10 Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing lineup of Ricky Taylor and Filipe Albuquerque earned podiums at Detroit, Watkins Glen and Indianapolis, while No. 40 Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing drivers Jordan Taylor and Deletraz were runners-up at Watkins Glen in the team’s first season with Cadillac Racing in GTP.
Jack Aitken returns for his fourth season in the No. 31 Whelen Cadillac V-Series.R, which recorded two victories and led the most laps across the nine GTP races this past season. Aitken and Action Express Racing finished second in the GTP Drivers and Team Championships. Aitken, Earl Bamber, Frederik Vesti and the team placed second in the IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup GTP standings.
Bamber and Stevens will compete in the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) season finale November 8 at the Bahrain International Circuit. Stevens co-drove to Cadillac Racing’s maiden WEC victory in July at Interlagos and Bamber and Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA teammates were runners-up in the six-hour event.
The Nos. 12 and 38 Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA V-Series.Rs have qualified 1-2 in three of the past four races, and Cadillac is mathematically in contention for the Manufacturers Championship.
The nine-race 2026 IMSA season begins January 16-18 with the annual Roar Before the 24, followed the next weekend by the 64th Rolex 24 At Daytona at Daytona International Speedway – one of five endurance races on the schedule.
Cadillac has earned four Manufacturer Championships, five IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup Manufacturer Championships and 33 victories since entering IMSA prototype competition in 2017.
“I’m excited to get going for next year. It will be our second year with the Cadillac V-Series.R and we have learned so much this year,” said Wayne Taylor Racing owner Wayne Taylor. “Having the same drivers for the full season and Will Stevens in the No. 10 Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing for the IMEC rounds brings great continuity to our program. We are delighted that Colton Herta can join Jordan and Louis in the No. 40 Cadillac WTR V-Series.R for the endurance events. The trio has been a great match and had great success working together in 2024. Our team has so much positivity going into 2026 and we are all looking forward to the November test in Daytona.”
“We are thrilled to have our drivers, Jack Aitken, Earl Bamber and Fredrick Vesti, returning for 2026. Over the past couple years, we have enjoyed watching them drive at a very high level in every race,” said Action Express Racing General Manager Gary Nelson. “Unfortunately, many times, in early events of 2025 we did not get the results they deserved. We saw all along how well Jack, Earl and Fred were working together and how fast they were. We just seemed to not get the trophies they deserved. That all changed for the final two events, Indy and Atlanta. Everything came together and we brought home the trophies. With our team ending 2025 with wins at the final two events, in 2026 we expect to pick up where we left off.”
