Updated entry list for 59th Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona
Just a year after the Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona produced its lowest car count – 38 – the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship's traditional opening round looks set to feature 49 entries.
Photo by: IMSA
| N° | Team (Sponsors) | Car | Drivers |
DPi - 7 cars | |||
| 01 | Cadillac Chip Ganassi Racing | Cadillac DPi-V.R |
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| 5 | JDC-Miller MotorSports (Mustang Sampling Racing)
| Cadillac DPi-V.R |
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| 10 | Wayne Taylor Racing (Konica Minolta) | Acura ARX-05 |
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| 31 | Action Express Racing (Whelen Engineering)
| Cadillac DPi-V.R |
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| 48 | Action Express Racing (Ally Cadillac Racing)
| Cadillac DPi-V.R |
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| 55 | Mazda Motorsports | Mazda RT24-P |
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| 60 | Meyer Shank Racing w/Curb-Agajanian (Sirius XM / AutoNation / Acura Type S / Curb Records) | Acura ARX-05 |
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LMP2 - 10 cars | |||
| 8 | Tower Motorsport by Starworks (Tower Events) | Oreca 07-Gibson |
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| 11 | WIN Autosport | Oreca 07-Gibson |
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| 18 | Era Motorsport (Bremont / Idec Sport / Motul) | Oreca 07-Gibson |
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| 20 | High Class Racing (Polar Seafood / HRX / Orlen / Remus) | Oreca 07-Gibson |
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| 29 | Racing Team Nederland | Oreca 07-Gibson |
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| 47 | Cetilar Racing (Cetilar) | Dallara P217-Gibson |
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| 51 | RWR-Eurasia (Nurtec ODT / JACOB Companies) | Ligier JS P217-Gibson |
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| 52 | PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports (Wynns / Rain-X / Four Horsemen / Max Connect / Client Command / Valkyrie AI) | Oreca 07-Gibson |
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| 81 | DragonSpeed | Oreca 07-Gibson |
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| 82 | DragonSpeed | Oreca 07-Gibson |
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LMP3 - 7 cars | |||
| 6 | Muehlner Motorsports (H&R Das Fahrwerk / H&R Special Springs) | Duqueine M30-D08 Nissan |
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| 7 | Forty7 Motorsports (Hawk Brakes / EVO / Surgere / Colombia) | Duqueine M30-D08 Nissan |
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| 33 | Sean Creech Motorsports (Galp / Exelixis) | Ligier JS P320-Nissan |
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| 38 | Performance Tech Motorsports (Centinel Spine / VB Envirocare / Aero / Gulf Oil / Celebrity X Cruise / Novo Nordisk / AIG / CardioAccess) | Ligier JS P320-Nissan |
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| 54 | CORE autosport (Composite Resources / Crowdstrike) | Ligier JS P320-Nissan |
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| 74 | Riley Motorsport | Ligier JS P320-Nissan |
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| 91 | Riley Motorsport | Ligier JS P320-Nissan |
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GT Le Mans - 6 cars | |||
| 3 | Corvette Racing | Corvette C8.R |
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| 4 | Corvette Racing | Corvette C8.R |
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| 24 | BMW Team RLL (BMW of North America) | BMW M8 GTE |
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| 25 | BMW Team RLL (BMW of North America) | BMW M8 GTE |
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| 62 | Risi Competizione | Ferrari 488 GTE |
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| 79 | WeatherTech Racing Proton Competition | Porsche 911 RSR-19 |
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GT Daytona - 19 cars | |||
| 1 | Paul Miller Motorsports (Total Lubricants / UIS / Paul Miller Auto Group) | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo |
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| 9 | Pfaff Motorsports (Motul / Pfaff Porsche / Porsche Centre Markham) | Porsche 911 GT3 R |
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| 12 | Vasser Sullivan (Bayshore Recycling) | Lexus RC F GT3 |
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| 14 | Vasser Sullivan (Rice Lake Weighing Systems) | Lexus RC F GT3 |
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| 16 | Wright Motorsports (1st Phorm / Mountain Motorsports / Una Vida Tequila) | Porsche 911 GT3 R |
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| 19 | GRT Grasser Racing Team | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo |
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| 21 | AF Corse | Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo |
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| 23 | Heart of Racing Team | Aston Martin Vantage GT3 |
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| 28 | Alegra Motorsports (NANOProMT / InSync Healthcare Solutions) | Mercedes-AMG GT3 |
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| 42 | NTE Sport | Audi R8 LMS GT3 |
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| 44 | Magnus with Archangel | Acura NSX GT3 Evo |
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| 57 | HTP Winward Motorsport (Techemet / First Horizon Bank / Mobil 1) | Mercedes-AMG GT3 |
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| 63 | Scuderia Corsa | Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo |
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| 64 | Team TGM (jktgfoundation.org / Porsche Silver Spring) | Porsche 911 GT3 R |
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| 75 | SunEnergy1 Racing | Mercedes-AMG GT3 |
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| 88 | Team Hardpoint EBM | Porsche 911 GT3 R |
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| 96 | Turner Motorsport (Barletta Engineering / LiquiMoly / Turner Parts / H&R Springs / Hillard Corp / Hengst / Pagid) | BMW M6 GT3 |
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| 97 | TF Sport (Rain X / Wynns / Total) | Aston Martin Vantage GT3 |
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| 111 | Grasser GRT | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo |
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Kevin Magnussen
Renger van der Zande
Scott Dixon
Sebastien Bourdais
Ricky Taylor
Filipe Albuquerque
Helio Castroneves
Mike Conway
Kamui Kobayashi
Mike Rockenfeller
Juan Pablo Montoya
John Farano
Ferdinand Habsburg-Lothringen
Andrea Belicchi
Mateo Llarena
Rasmus Lindh
Scott Andrews
Antonio Garcia
Jesse Krohn
Laurens Vanthoor
Misha Goikhberg
Rolf IneichenEntries in bold are expected to contest the full IMSA season
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