{"id":248944,"date":"2025-10-29T15:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T15:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/248944\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T15:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T15:45:09","slug":"colton-herta-announces-partial-2026-imsa-campaign-with-cadillac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/248944\/","title":{"rendered":"Colton Herta announces partial 2026 IMSA campaign with Cadillac"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cadillac Formula 1 test driver Colton Herta<\/a> will race for the American manufacturer in three IMSA SportsCar Championship endurance contests next year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Herta will dovetail his F1 duties and an F2 campaign driving for Hitech<\/a> with appearances at the start-of-season Daytona 24 Hours and Sebring 12 Hours IMSA rounds, plus the season-closing Petit Le Mans event at Road Atlanta.<\/p>\n

They will come in a Wayne Taylor Racing<\/a> Cadillac V-Series.R LMDh, which the 25-year-old American will share with full-season drivers Jordan Taylor<\/a> and Louis Deletraz<\/a> in the GTP class.<\/p>\n

Herta will be renewing a relationship with Wayne Taylor\u2019s team. He contested the same schedule of events in 2024 aboard an Acura ARX-06 LMDh at a time when WTR was partnered with the Andretti team for which he was racing in IndyCar.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The programme of events yielded victory for Herta at Sebring together with Taylor and Deletraz. Herta said: \u201cSuper excited to join Cadillac WTR for the endurance rounds next year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had some success last time I was with the team, and I hope to continue that. Jordan and Louis are some of the best drivers in the business, and it\u2019s a pleasure to join them on this adventure.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"#40 <\/p>\n

#40 Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti Acura ARX-06: Jordan Taylor, Louis Deletraz, Colton Herta<\/p>\n

Photo by: Jake Galstad \/ Motorsport Images<\/p>\n

Wayne Taylor added: \u201cWe are delighted that Colton can join Jordan and Louis in the #40 Cadillac WTR V-Series.R for the endurance events. The trio has been a great match and had great success working together in 2024. Our team has so much positivity going into 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

The signing of Herta, who also raced BMW\u2019s M Hybrid V8 LMDh at Daytona in 2023, came at the same time as Cadillac confirming its full roster for the 2026 IMSA GTP campaign. The full-season line-ups across the two WTR entries and the Action Express Racing<\/a> car are unchanged.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ricky Taylor<\/a> and Filipe Albuquerque<\/a> will continue in the #10 WTR Caddy and will be again joined by Will Stevens<\/a>, who races for the Jota Cadillac squad in the World Endurance Championship, for Daytona, Sebring and Petit Le Mans.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jack Aitken<\/a> and Earl Bamber<\/a> have been named as the full-season pairing for the #31 Action Express V-Series.R, with Frederik Vesti<\/a> the third driver for the five rounds that make up the IMSA Endurance Cup.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Vesti will also race for the team at the April Long Beach IMSA fixture, a clash with the Imola WEC round at which Bamber will be racing for Jota. This year, WTR used four drivers at Daytona in January, Toyota WEC regulars Brendon Hartley<\/a> and Kamui Kobayashi<\/a> racing #10 and #40 respectively.<\/p>\n

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