IMSA has released the provisional entry list for the 63rd Rolex 24 at Daytona, with a full field of 61 entries across the four classes for the twice-around-the-clock season opener of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.
That includes a record dozen entries in Grand Touring Prototype, the most s ince the new era of GTP began in 2023. With Cadillac expanding to three cars for the season, an entry from Proton Competition, and the first appearance of the Lamborghini SC63 in the 24-hour race, the field has expanded to its largest yet.
Gianmaria Bruni and Neel Jani are listed as driving Proton’s Porsche 963, while JDC-Miller’s 963 has Tijmen van der Helm and Bryce Aron. With Andrea Caldarelli in Pfaff’s new Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo2 in GTD PRO, Mirko Bortolotti, Romain Grosjean, Daniil Kvyat and Edoardo Mortara are nominated as driving the Lamborghini Iron Lynx SC63.
With the flurry of announcements in recent days as teams finalized their line-ups, there are few surprises among the entries, but still a lot of TBDs. For example, the entire line-up for both Vasser Sullivan Racing’s GTD PRO and GTD Lexus RC Fs, as well as both Paul Miller Racing’s GTD PRO BMW M4 GT3 Evo entries, are TBD, as is Triarsi Racing’s second Ferrari 296 GT3 in GTD. In all, there are some 47 question marks on the entry. Several of the GTD teams have named their Bronze-rated drivers, but the rest of the line-up is to be determined.
The LMP2 field sits at an even dozen as well with the return of CrowdStrike Racing by APR (George Kurtz, Malthe Jakobsen, Toby Sowery and Colton Herta) and the addition of PECOM Racing, looking much like the old AF Corse entry including the No. 88 and drivers Luis Perez Companc, Nicklas Nielsen and Matthieu Vaxiviere. Newcomer Pratt Miller Motorsports has Pietro Fittipaldi, James Roe, Chris Cumming and Callum Ilott listed as drivers.