Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing secures pole for Laguna Seca IMSA race
Louis Deletraz delivered a breakthrough performance to put Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing on pole at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. The 29-year-old Swiss driver wheeled the #40 Cadillac V-Series.R to a flying lap of 1m13.221s around the 11-turn, 2.238-mile natural terrain road course to take the top spot. It marks the first pole for Wayne Taylor […]
Wayne Taylor Racing stripped of Sebring podium for inspection violation
Penske won the 74th running of the 12 Hours of Sebring in a dominant 1-2 finish, but the honor of being ‘best of the rest’ went to Wayne Taylor Racing’s #10 Cadillac V-Series.R with drivers Ricky Taylor, Will Stevens, and Filipe Albuquerque. Unfortunately, that podium finish did not last and WTR have been moved to […]
Porsche Penske leads over JDC-Miller
Porsche Penske Motorsport’s Laurin Heinrich has the No. 7 Porsche 963 out front at the six-hour mark of the 64th Running of the Rolex 24 At Daytona. Heinrich passed the No. 85 JDC-Miller MotorSport Porsche, with Tijmen van der Helm behind the wheel, a few minutes prior to completing a quarter of the race. Behind […]
Porsche nips Cadillac late to top of final Rolex 24 practice
Laurens Vanthoor pulled out a late flying lap to elevate Porsche Penske Motorsport on top in the the 64th Running of the Rolex 24 on Friday morning. Driving the No. 6 Porsche 963, Vanthoor threw down a quick lap of 1 minute, 36.475 seconds on Daytona’s 3.56-mile speedway road course. The leading pace was 0.066s […]
Former Indy 500 winner Marcus Ericsson added to WTR Daytona 24 lineup
Marcus Ericsson has been added as the final piece of Wayne Taylor Racing’s lineup for the Rolex 24 at Daytona. A full-time driver for Andretti Global in the IndyCar Series, Ericsson will drive the No. 45 Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO2 in the 24-hour endurance classic in January, alongside Danny Formal, Trent Hindman and Graham Doyle. […]
Porsche’s ‘setback’ is a triumph for Ford, Acura’s Detroit GP
The original headline for Saturday’s IMSA race report read something like “BOP be damned, Porsche Penske proves perfection again in Detroit”…before the #10 Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac and #93 Acura Meyer Shank Racing cars instantly changed it, not two-minutes later. The lesson here is that endurance racing can be unpredictable, and never write a lede to […]
They can’t all be winners and losers at IMSA’s Long Beach GP
It’s been zero days without an incident between a Corvette driven by Tommy Milner and a BMW. And while some fans may be disappointed that Saturday’s story didn’t end with the now infamous Milner bird from the Rolex 24, the rest of the field managed a few sweet victories worth noting and losses that were […]
Four Cadillacs possible at Le Mans as WTR, AXR file entries
Cadillac could have as many as four LMDhs at the Le Mans 24 Hours with the confirmation that Wayne Taylor Racing and Action Express Racing have filed entries. The General Motors brand’s representatives in the IMSA SportsCar Championship in North America have revealed that they have each made a bid to run a solo V-Series.R […]
Wayne Taylor on his IMSA legacy and Le Mans dreams
Many remarkable names in racing have graced the IMSA paddocks since the series’ inception in 1969, but few of the legends have been a presence so consistently, for so long — and so good at winning — as Wayne Taylor. “Mark Raffauf, who works for IMSA [as its Senior Director of Race Operations], reminded me […]