The full 61-car entry list for 60th Rolex 24 at Daytona
The IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship entry list for the 60th Rolex 24 at Daytona features 61 cars – the most since 2014.
61 cars set to start the 60th Rolex 24 At Daytona.
Photo by: IMSA
The Roar Before the Rolex 24 from Jan. 21-23 saw two days of on-track testing around Daytona’s 3.56-mile road course, followed by a 100-minute qualifying race on the Sunday. That resulted in the saw the Wayne Taylor Racing Acura ARX-05, driven by Ricky Taylor and Filipe Albuquerque barely holding off the Tristan Vautier/Richard Westbrook-piloted JDC Miller MotorSports Cadillac DPi-V.R at the checkered flag.
That earned the WTR car pole position for the final Rolex 24 to be held under Daytona Prototype international regulations. The top class’s car count has remained the same as in 2021 at seven entries, with a second full-time Chip Ganassi Racing-run Cadillac helping to make up for the loss of the Mazda RT24-P. In LMP2 also, the field has again remained the same as per last year, with 10 entries, including two from G-Drive Racing by APR.
The second season of LMP3 cars being part of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship sees the field grow from six to nine cars.
But inevitably the big news comes with the debut of the GTD Pro class – GT3-spec cars with all-pro driver line-ups – to replace the now obsolete GT Le Mans division, with 13 entries from eight manufacturers. For the only time this year in IMSA, both Corvette C8.Rs will be present, before Nick Tandy and Tommy Milner head off to the FIA World Endurance Championship with the #4 car.
The Rahal Letterman Lanigan BMW team that won the 2019 and 2020 Rolex 24 Hours in GTLM returns but with new BMW M4s to replace the sleek M8s of recent years, while WeatherTech Racing sponsors three cars from two manufacturers – Porsche and Mercedes-Benz.
GTD features cars of the same GT3 spec as GTD Pro, and with the same balance of performance, but with pro-am line-ups, and in this class there are 22 cars from nine manufacturers.
There are two more practice sessions - Thursday evening and Friday morning – while the round-the-clock classic runs from 1.40pm on Saturday through to 1.40pm on Sunday.
IMSA president John Doonan commented: “The racing world turns its eyes to the Rolex 24 every year since it typically kicks off the season for everyone in the industry and draws such an immense amount of international driver and team talent together. That’s even truer in 2022 with more cars on the grid than we’ve seen at Daytona in the last eight years.
“It shows that the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and sports car racing around the world continues to grow and thrive. We’re very excited for what should be a memorable 60th Rolex 24 at Daytona and the season ahead.”
The grid line-up will not be published until late Saturday morning, but below is the full entry list.
Full entry list
| N° | Team (Sponsors) | Car | Drivers |
DPi – 7 cars |
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| 01 |
Cadillac Racing (Cadillac V-Performance Academy) |
Cadillac DPi-V.R |
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| 02 |
Cadillac Racing (Cadillac Accessories)
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Cadillac DPi-V.R |
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| 5 |
JDC-Miller MotorSports (Mustang Sampling / Cadillac / Galp /Misahara)
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Cadillac DPi-V.R |
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| 10 |
Konica Minolta Racing (Konica Minolta) Wayne Taylor Racing |
Acura ARX-05 |
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| 31 |
Whelen Engineering Racing (Whelen Engineering) Action Express Racing |
Cadillac DPi-V.R |
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| 48 |
Ally Cadillac (Ally) Action Express Racing |
Cadillac DPi-V.R |
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| 60 |
Meyer Shank Racing w/Curb-Agajanian (AutoNation / Sirius XM / Arctic Wolf) |
Acura ARX-05 |
|
LMP2 – 10 cars |
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| 8 |
Tower Motorsport by Starworks (Tower Events) |
Oreca 07-Gibson |
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| 11 |
PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports TAFS / End ALZ |
Oreca 07-Gibson |
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| 18 |
Era Motorsport (Motul / Mechanixwear) |
Oreca 07-Gibson |
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| 20 |
High Class Racing (Polar Handtools / Polar Seafood / Mascot Workwear / HRX / Motul / Skaarup / Ceramic Speed / Stobag / Wexler / ATS) |
Oreca 07-Gibson |
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| 22 |
United Autosports (Aero / HRX / Maria Mallaband / Attis Insurance / Motul) |
Oreca 07-Gibson |
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| 29 | Racing Team Nederland | Oreca 07-Gibson |
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| 52 |
PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports (Wynns / Rain-X / Four Horsemen / Max Connect) |
Oreca 07-Gibson |
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| 68 | G-Drive Racing by APR | Oreca 07-Gibson |
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| 69 | G-Drive Racing by APR | Oreca 07-Gibson |
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| 81 | DragonSpeed | Oreca 07-Gibson |
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LMP3 – 9 cars |
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| 6 |
Muehlner Motorsports America (H&R Das Fahrwerk / H&R Special Springs) |
Duqueine M30-D08 Nissan |
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| 7 |
Forty7 Motorsports (Drive Capital) |
Duqueine M30-D08 Nissan |
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| 13 |
AWA (Orlando Corp / OMP / Sonic Tools / Racing Spirit / Urbinco / Westrock / Motul / Projekt / C17 Media) |
Duqueine M30-D08 Nissan |
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| 26 |
Muehlner Motorsports America (H&R Das Fahrwerk / H&R Special Springs)
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Duqueine M30-D08 Nissan |
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| 33 |
Sean Creech Motorsports (Exelixis / Focal One / Alta) |
Ligier JS P320-Nissan |
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| 36 |
Andretti Autosport (Galant / Window World)
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Ligier JS P320-Nissan |
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| 38 |
Performance Tech Motorsports (Cardio Access / DOGOH.jp / Copec / Emasa / AIG Technologies) |
Ligier JS P320-Nissan |
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| 54 |
CORE autosport (Crowdstrike / Motul) |
Ligier JS P320-Nissan |
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| 74 |
Riley Motorsport 74 Ranch Resort |
Ligier JS P320-Nissan |
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GTD Pro – 13 cars |
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| 2 | KCMG | Porsche 911 GT3 R |
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| 3 | Corvette Racing | Corvette C8.R |
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| 4 | Corvette Racing | Corvette C8.R |
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| 9 |
Pfaff Motorsports (Pfaff Porsche / Motul) |
Porsche 911 GT3 R |
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| 14 |
Vasser Sullivan Racing |
Lexus RC F GT3 |
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| 15 |
Proton USA (WeatherTech) |
Mercedes AMG GT3 |
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| 23 |
Heart of Racing Team |
Aston Martin Vantage GT3 |
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| 24 |
BMW M Team RLL (BMW of North America / Motul) |
BMW M4 GT3 |
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| 25 |
BMW M Team RLL (BMW of North America / Motul) |
BMW M4 GT3 |
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| 62 |
Risi Competizione (Pennzoil) |
Ferrari 488 GT3 |
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| 63 |
TR3 Racing (Lamborghini Miami / Bio Circle) |
Lamborghini Huracan GT3 |
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| 79 |
WeatherTech Racing Proton Competition |
Porsche 911 GT3 R |
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| 97 |
WeatherTech Racing Proton Competition
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Mercedes AMG GT3 |
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GTD – 22 cars |
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| 12 |
Vasser Sullivan Racing |
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 |
TR3 Racing (Piloti) |
Lamborghini Huracan GT3 |
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| 21 |
AF Corse |
Ferrari 488 GT3 |
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| 27 | Heart of Racing Team | Aston Martin Vantage GT3 |
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| 28 |
Alegra Motorsports (Navisec Cyber Security / Huski Chocolate) |
Mercedes-AMG GT3 |
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| 32 |
Gilbert Korthoff Motorsports (Performance Driving Group) |
Mercedes AMG GT3 |
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| 34 |
GMG Racing (MOVO / Eboost / BN3TH / Centr / Seaspan / Troy Lee Designs) |
Porsche 911 GT3 R |
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| 39 |
CarBahn with Peregrine Racing (Accel / Menlo / SailPoint / DataRobot / Palantir / Optimizely) |
Lamborghini Huracan GT3 |
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| 42 | NTE Sport | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 |
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| 44 | Magnus Racing | Aston Martin Vantage GT3 |
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| 47 |
Cetilar Racing (cetilar) |
Ferrari 488 GT3 |
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| 57 |
Winward Racing (Techemet / First Horizon / Exxon Mobil) |
Mercedes AMG GT3 |
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| 59 |
Crucial Motorsports (Motul / JDRF / Lincoln Equities Group / Belle Haven Investments / Notlad Racing) |
McLaren 720S GT3 |
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| 64 |
Team TGM (JKTGfoundation.org / #HealthInnovation / Porsche Silver Spring) |
Porsche 911 GT3 R |
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| 66 |
Gradient Racing |
Acura NSX GT3 |
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| 70 |
Inception Racing |
McLaren 720S GT3 |
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| 71 |
T3 Motorsport North America |
Lamborghini Huracan GT3 |
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| 75 | SunEnergy1 Racing | Mercedes-AMG GT3 |
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| 96 |
Turner Motorsport (Turner Motorsport / LiquiMoly / Barletta Engineering) |
BMW M4 GT3 |
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| 98 |
Northwest AMR (NorthWest) |
Aston Martin Vantage GT3 |
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| 99 |
Team Hardpoint (GRIDRIVAL / GNARLY Premium Cut Jerky / De Boulle Diamond & Jewelry) |
Porsche 911 GT3 R |
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Sebastien Bourdais
Renger van der Zande
Scott Dixon
Alex Palou
Alex Lynn
Kevin Magnussen
Marcus Ericsson
Ben Keating
Filipe Albuquerque
Pipo Derani
Kamui Kobayashi
Mike Rockenfeller
Jose Maria Lopez
John Farano
Louis Deletraz
Ferdinand Habsburg
James Allen
Luca Ghiotto
Pato O'Ward
Moritz Kranz
Ugo de Wilde
Gabby Chaves
Nico Pino
Dennis Olsen
Sheldon van der Linde
Jesse Krohn
Benja Hites
Kyffin Simpson
Jordan Pepper
Mateo Llarena
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