Brendon Hartley and Colton Herta will be the endurance co-drivers competing for Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti in the IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup during next year’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season.
Hartley will join Ricky Taylor and Filipe Albuquerque in the No. 10 WTRAndretti Acura ARX-06 while Herta will co-pilot the No. 40 WTRAndretti Acura ARX-06 with Jordan Taylor and Louis Delétraz. WTRAndretti plans to announce additional drivers for the Rolex 24 At Daytona at Daytona (Fla.) Int’l Speedway in the coming weeks.
“It’s super exciting to join such a prestigious team like WTRAndretti for the endurance events,” Herta said. “They’ve shown how successful they can be in the past and I’m looking forward to hopefully adding to that!”
First joining the WTRAndretti family for the 2022 MOTUL Petit Le Mans, Hartley continued his tenure with the team as the Rolex 24 At Daytona co-driver in the No. 10 WTRAndretti Acura ARX-06 earlier this year. Aside from his time with the WTRAndretti team, Hartley is a four-time FIA World Endurance Championship drivers’ champion winner (2023, 2022, 2017, 2015), three-time overall winner at Le Mans and former Formula One driver.
“I really enjoyed my time with WTRAndretti at Petit last year and Daytona this year, so I jumped at the opportunity to compete in the endurance races in 2024 when Wayne called me,” Hartley said. “WTRAndretti knows how to win and going to a two-car team will strengthen the whole operation even further.”
Although a driver in the NTT IndyCar Series with Andretti Global, Herta is no stranger to the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. The California native has two class victories at the Rolex 24 At Daytona, most recently with an LMP2 overall win in 2022 and a GTLM (now GTD) win in 2019.
Complementing his accolades in sportscar racing, Herta is a seven-time IndyCar race winner – including his first victory in 2019 at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, which earned him the title of the youngest winner in IndyCar.
“It’s exciting that we’ve managed to get the services of Brendon Hartley again and Colton Herta as our third drivers who will be doing the IMEC,” Wayne Taylor, team principal of Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti said. “Brendon has driven for us before, and we’ve got to know him really well.
“Obviously, Colton is a part of the Andretti Global group which opened the door for us with him. He’s won Daytona in an GT car and drove a LMDh car last year and did a really good job. I’m really excited about having both Brendon and Colton on board.”