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The 2025 IMSA SportsCar Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the 2025 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship) is an ongoing motor racing championship and the 55th racing season sanctioned by the International Motor Sports Association, which traces its lineage back to the 1971 IMSA GT Championship.
The 2025 Michelin Pilot Challenge will be the twenty-sixth season of the IMSA SportsCar Challenge and the twelfth season organized by the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA). The season will begin on January 26 at Daytona International Speedway and will conclude on October 11 at Road Atlanta .
The 2025 IMSA VP Racing SportsCar Challenge season will be the third season of the IMSA VP Racing SportsCar Challenge after being established in 2023 as a replacement for the IMSA Prototype Challenge. The season will begin on January 20 at Daytona International Speedway and will conclude on October 19 at Road Atlanta.
The team currently fields the No. 5 Porsche 963 full-time for Tijmen van der Helm and Mike Rockenfeller in the GTP class of the IMSA SportsCar Championship. [2] JDC previously ran the No. 17 Unitronic/ Liqui Moly Audi RS3 LMS TCR SEQ full-time for Chris Miller and Mikey Taylor in the Touring Car class in 2022.
The 24 Hours of Daytona was the first of eleven scheduled sports car endurance races by IMSA, and the first of five races of the Michelin Endurance Cup (MEC). [3] The race took place at the 12-turn 3.560-mile (5.729 km) Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida from January 25 to 26.
The 963 made its first appearance in the practice sessions of the 2023 24 Hours of Daytona alongside the other new GTP cars., the BMW M Hybrid V8, the Acura ARX-06, and the Cadillac V-LMDh. The 963 was often right behind the ARX-06s of Meyer Shank Racing and Wayne Taylor Racing, with the former leading all five practice sessions, bar the last one.
In 1983, Porsche did more than just win the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Its 956 prototype finished 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8, another 956 rounded out the top ten, and the top-finishing grand tourer was a 911-based ...
At the end of the 2023 season, IMSA discontinued the involvement of the Le Mans Prototype 3 (LMP3) class from the main championship. The class was originally introduced in 2021 as a means of bolstering the overall grid size, which had seen a record-low 38 starting cars in the 2020 24 Hours of Daytona .