Renger van der Zande will join Jordan Taylor in the Wayne Taylor Racing team for the 2018 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season.
Following the demise of the Prototype Challenge class, BAR1 Motorsports will make the move to the Prototype Class in 2018.
Reigning British GT4 champion Stuart Middleton has become the youngest ever winner of Sunoco Whelen Challenge which has given him a fulled paid drive with the #31 Whelen Engineering Cadillac for the 2018 Rolex 24 At Daytona.
Double world F1 Champion Fernando Alonso will be entering the 2018 Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona. The Spaniard, who will be racing for McLaren Team Boss Zak Brown’s United Autosports team, is aiming to use the event as preparation for a possible entry for the Le Mans 24 Hours
Quartet of Porsche winners chosen for Porsche Young Driver Academy backing.
Fernando Alonso will race in the USA once again, when he contests the Rolex 24 at Daytona in January.
SEASON REVIEW: 2017 IMSA Weathertech SportsCar - Taylors Dominate New Era of IMSA SportsCars
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The 2017 IMSA Weathertech SportsCar season saw the end of the Daytona Prototypes but the emergence of the new DPi regulations led to the dominance of the Wayne Taylor Racing squad. As we said farewell to the PC class, Corvette and Scuderia Corsa retained their GT titles in the closely fraught classes.
Fernando Alonso could race in the Rolex 24 at Daytona in January to give himself some experience of endurance racing ahead of a possible attack on the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Paul di Resta has announced that he will race with Zak Brown’s United Autosports team for the Rolex 24 at Daytona in January.
ORECA have criticised the decision from the ACO and FIA to allow their rivals to upgrade their LMP2 chassis ahead of the 2018 season whilst effectively freezing their own development programme.
The early season endurance races in the 2018 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season will see Graham Rahal and Simon Pagenaud race for Team Penske.
Ricky Taylor will join Helio Castroneves, Juan Pablo Montoya and Dane Cameron in Team Penske’s full-time driver line-up for the 2018 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season.
For a second consecutive season, Christina Nielsen and Alessandro Balzan secured the GT Daytona title in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.
Despite retiring from the season finale at Road Atlanta, Ricky and Jordan Taylor are the 2017 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Prototype Champions.
Porsche teams complete the podium that is topped by an Audi in the ten hour endurance classic.
Audi customer outfit Montaplast by Land-Motorsport took GTD honours at Petit Le Mans last weekend.
Performance Tech Motorsports had already confirmed themselves as champions in 2017 thanks to wins in the first seven races of the season, but a clash with a LMP2 machine ended their chances of an eighth victory.
