DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Hardpoint returns for the IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship season with January’s Rolex 24 At Daytona, adding drivers Stefan Wilson and Nick Boulle to the full-time GT Daytona class alongside Rob Ferriol and Katherine Legge in the No. 99 GridRival/GNARLY Jerky/de Boulle Diamond and Jewelry Porsche 911 GT3 R.
Ferriol, the team owner in addition to driving duties, and Legge co-drove Hardpoint’s first full season of IMSA WeatherTech competition.
Ferriol earned IMSA’s Bob Akin Award last year for the championship’s top Bronze-rated driver. Additionally he and Legge were part of the Hardpoint entry at the Rolex 24 that earned a top-10 finish in the team’s first 24-hour race. Legge was runner-up at Daytona in the GTD class in 2018.
Wilson, a three-time Indianapolis 500 starter, makes his Rolex 24 debut celebrating the 10th anniversary of his late brother, Justin Wilson, and hiswin at the historic event in 2012.
Wilson, through Hardpoint’s partnership with Cusick Motorsports, GNARLY Premium Cut Jerky, LOHLA SPORT and Neptune Systems, will be the additional driver at each of the Michelin Endurance Cup races, beginning at Daytona and including Sebring, Watkins Glen and Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta.
Boulle joins Hardpoint as the 2017 Prototype Challenge class winner at that year’s Rolex 24 At Daytona. Boulle also has a pair of runner-up finishes in 2016 and ’20 and competed in a Porsche 911 GT3 R in the ’19 edition of the race, where he ran as high as second late before the race was shortened due to weather.
This will be Boulle’s sixth time racing in the Rolex 24, but the first since his family business, de Boulle Diamond and Jewelry, has become an authorized Rolex dealer in Houston, Texas.
Though Wilson has limited IMSA experience with just one start in the IMSA WeatherTech Championship, that race – a 2017 Prototype Challenge-class run at Circuit of the Americas teamed with Boulle – resulted in a runner-up finish for the pair in their previous run as teammates.