2019 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship

CORE autosport will return to the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship in 2019 with their Oreca 07 LMP2 chassis after committing to the LMP2 class.

There will be an all-female entry on the IMSA grid in 2019 with the announcement that Jackie Heinricher and Katherine Legge will run full-time in the #57 Heinricher Racing/Meyer Shank Racing Acura, with Ana Beatriz and Simona de Silvestro being added for enduros.

Luis Felipe Derani will share driving duties with Felipe Nasr in the #31 Whelen Engineering Racing entry in 2019, with Eric Curran stepping back to race in just the four Michelin Endurance Cup races.

Following the decision to split DPi’s and LMP2’s in 2019, Jackie Chan DC Racing will not go back to Daytona with their Oreca’s, and are instead looking at a package involving a DPi.

The Nissan Onroak DPi will be made available to other teams and customers from next season after the exclusive deal with Extreme Speed Motorsports concludes at the end of 2018.

JDC-Miller Motorsports will switch from LMP2 to DPi machinery in 2019, with the outfit set to run two DPi-V.R’s from next season’s Rolex 24 at Daytona.

Richard Dean says the decision by IMSA to split the Prototype class into two means United Autosports will not field their LMP2 chassis’ in 2019’s Rolex 24 at Daytona.

The same twelve events will form the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season in 2019 as they do in 2018, starting with the fifty-seventh Rolex 24 at Daytona.

Christian Fittipaldi will call time on his career after the 2019 Rolex 24 at Daytona, bringing an end to sixteen years of racing in American-based Sports Car championships.

The GT Daytona competitors will have an extra title to go for from next season after IMSA announced the introduction of the IMSA WeatherTech Sprint Cup.

DPi and LMP2 cars will have their own classes in 2019, with the latter becoming a Pro-Am class, much like the GT Daytona class.