Corvette Racing accomplice squad Pratt Miller Motorsports will add a prototype programme to its IMSA SportsCar Championship roster subsequent season by fielding an LMP2 entry alongside its GTD Professional effort.
Pietro Fittipaldi has switched from the Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing IndyCar programme to guide its driver line-up in an ORECA-Gibson 07.
He might be joined by Irishman James Roe, who is ready to dovetail a fourth season of Indy NXT, with a bronze-graded driver that’s obligatory for the category, but to be introduced.
The entry marks a return to prototype racing for considered one of North America’s most profitable sportscar operations, which has received its class on 9 events with Corvette since 2001.
It constructed the Intrepid GTP designed by the late Bob Riley and son Invoice, which received on the New Orleans road monitor in 1991, and was additionally concerned within the Corvette Daytona Prototype that received the 2014 Daytona 24 Hours and the primary three titles of the fashionable IMSA period.
“We’re excited to deepen our involvement in IMSA by launching an LMP2 programme,” stated Pratt Miller Motorsports vice chairman Brandon Widmer.
Wayne Taylor, MTI Racing, Intrepid RM-1 Chevrolet Katech.
Photograph by: William Murenbeeld / Motorsport Photos
“This enlargement displays our dedication to innovation and efficiency. Over this previous season, we have now been laying the groundwork to construct a complete motorsports platform that maximises our companions’ return on their funding with us.
“With Pietro Fittipaldi’s intensive expertise in championships throughout a number of racing codecs and James Roe’s ascension by the American open-wheel ranks, we’re assured these drivers carry the talent and dedication wanted to make our LMP2 debut successful.
“We count on to announce a bronze-rated driver and a fourth endurance driver within the very close to future, additional strengthening our group for the upcoming season.”
Fittipaldi, who began two Method 1 races for Haas in 2020 after Romain Grosjean was injured in Bahrain, has earlier LMP2 expertise from contesting full seasons within the European Le Mans Collection and World Endurance Championship in 2022 and 2023.
The Brazilian has additionally made 4 IMSA begins within the P2 division, taking a finest end of fourth at Daytona this season.
The PMM-run Corvette Racing outfit has but to announce its driver line-up for 2025, when it would once more enter two Corvette Z06 GT3.Rs.
Alexander Sims and Antonio Garcia positioned third on this yr’s GTD Professional standings, clinching the 116th win for Corvette Racing at Mosport, whereas Nicky Catsburg and Tommy Milner completed eighth.
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