Heres the first edition of NBC Sports assessment of the current top 10 drivers in IndyCar entering Sundays Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg season opener: 1. #74 Riley Motorsports Ligier JS P320 won the very first LMP3 Champion title (in 2021) at the IMSA Weathertech SportsCar Championship, which welcomed the LMP3 sports prototypes for the first time. Qualifying will take place on January 22, the final day of the "Roar Before the Rolex 24" preseason test. The lineup for the event, which will require a midrace driver change for each entry, was set by time trials Saturday on the 12-turn, 3.56-mile road course. Performance Tech has won twice the IMSA MICHELIN Endurance Cup Championship and the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring. RETWEET if you'll be watching the @INDYCAR season opener! The reigning European Le Mans Series LMP2 Pro-AM champion began his racing career karting at age 12 and made his single-seater debut in 2018. This is a stellar lineup and a perfect chance to show what we can do together. 7. Will Power (first in 2022) He turns 42 this week, and the Team Penske driver just seems to keep getting better, especially after he won his second championship with a new level of consistency. 57 Mercedes-AMG GT3 - Russell Ward, Philip Ellis and Indy Dontje. Photo: Mike Levitt/IMSA. The Rolex 24 is the debut race in North America for the new BMW M4 GT3, and the No. I know Tower is an incredible team and have already had the chance to test with them and get to meet everyone has only made me more excited with whats to come.. Will has held roles with various F1 teams dating back to 2008 and made his Grand Prix debut in 2014 before earning a full-time seat with Manor Marussia F1 Team for 2015. Andretti is expecting to bounce back with Colton Herta, and 2022 Rookie of the Year Christian Lundgaard of Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing seems destined to be the next first-time winner. 9 team will need to solve their qualifying woes to get a seventh championship. Andy Lally, the active leader in Rolex 24 wins with five, heads the No. 8 LMP2 Oreca for Florida-based Tower, which won the 2022 LMP2 title in IMSA, including two victories. Scott McLaughlin (tied fourth in 2022) He had a major breakthrough with three wins in his second IndyCar season, but he still is competing internally against two tough Penske teammates. It delivers an all-star driving lineup consisting of IMSA regulars plus drivers from other racing disciplines such as NASCAR, IndyCar, Formula 1, WEC, and more to create an event experience unlike any other! 9. INDIANAPOLIS(January 12, 2023) A familiar face returns for next season and two familiar names will join the Andretti Autosport LMP3 team at the 2023 Rolex 24 at DAYTONA. Rileys cars have won the 24 Hours of Daytona 20 times in addition to countless other motorsport races. Luc Warnotte: J. Hawksworth, B. Barnicoat and K. Kirkwood with #14 Lexus RC F GT3 ended fourth of Rolex 24 At Daytona 7.439 behind the winning Porsche. "Each year, we speak with many drivers as we develop our driver lineup, and I feel very good to officially announce everyone. In a trend of steadily increasing car counts, the starting field for the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season opener will mark the largest field since 67 teams started the 2014 Rolex 24. Konica Minolta has been included on CRNs MSP 500 list nine times and The World Technology Awards recently named the company a finalist in the IT Software category. 8d - Dan Beaver Load more GTP Manufacturers Buy into Win on Sunday, Sell on Monday Mantra IMSA Helps Open Door to Next Generation of Racers The 2022 24 Hours of Daytona (formally the 2022 Rolex 24 at Daytona) was an endurance sports car race sanctioned by the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA). Alexander Rossi returns for another stint with defending Rolex winners Wayne Taylor Racing, while Simon Pagenaud and Helio Castroneves will open their first full season driving for Meyer Shank Racing as part of the Rolex lineup celebrating Shank's 10th anniversary of his Daytona victory. Click here for the starting lineup for the Rolex 24 qualifying race. Renger van der Zande, whose No. . 2023 will be the last year of the Chevrolet Corvette C8.R in IMSA Championship and each Corvette fan is waiting for the 2024 Corvette Z06 GT3.R racecar to make its public debut at the Rolex 24 at Daytona on Friday, January 27th. The Andretti Autosport LMP3 team will make their 2023 debut at the Roar Before the Rolex 24 and will be on the grid for the Rolex 24 at DAYTONA. Luc Warnotte: : IMSA 2022: 12 HOURS OF SEBRING PRO AND GTD RACE here. Andretti is expecting to bounce back with Colton Herta, and 2022 Rookie of the Year Christian Lundgaard of Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing seems destined to be the next first-time winner. * Weathertech Sportscar Championship for GTD is an eleven-race championship with 7 sprints (Long Beach, Laguna Seca, Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, Lime Rock, Road America, Virginia International Raceway and Indianapolis Motor Speedway) and the 4 IMSA Michelin Endurance races**. Will Stevens is currently a Formula 1 Test & Development Driver for McLaren and a standout in the World Endurance Championship and European Le Mans Series. . Lance Willsey did not run the Motul Petit Le Mans race being replaced by Nico Pino. Luc Warnotte: C. MacNeil / D. Juncadella / M. Engel / J. Gounon abandoned Rolex 24 At Daytona 2022 with #97 Mercedes-AMG GT3. Having captured a Rolex 24 victory, Baja 1000 win and the Michelin Endurance Cup title last season, hell look to build on 2021s successes in 2022. He has already contributed greatly to the team, and I think our Rolex 24 lineup is as strong as ever. 10 Konica Minolta Acura ARX-05 team and to help with the success for this year.. It starts with Arrow McLaren, which has added 2016 Indy 500 winner Alexander Rossi to its 1-2 combo of Pato OWard and Felix Rosenqvist. 8 Oreca will again sport its signature orange and white colors, with a black base to replace the previous years purple livery. 2 January 2022, 1:44 AM. ET). Click Entry list for Rolex 24 At DAYTONA as well as weekend schedule. Luc Warnotte: R. Gunn / A. Riberas / M. Martin with #23 Aston Martin Vantage GT3 abandoned the Rolex 24 At Daytona. Sponsored primarily by Tower Events and Tower Scaffold Services, the No. NTT INDYCAR SERIES race winners Josef Newgarden and Scott McLaughlin will make their Rolex 24 at Daytona debuts with INDY NXT presented by Firestone rising star Kyffin Simpson in an LMP2 prototype fielded by Tower Motorsports. For drivers competing in more than one car during a race, the cumulative maximum drive time no longer applies to races under 6 hours in . Luc Warnotte: Turner Motorsport #96 BMW M4 GT3 ended 3rd combined classes GTD and GTD PRO. ST. PETE PRIMER: Schedules, start times and how to watch the 2023 IndyCar season opener. Luc Warnotte: J. Bennett / C. Braun / G. Kurtz with #54 CORE Autosport Ligier JS P320 ended second of LMP3 class of the Six Hours of The Glen. Jeremy Jones, 4800 Legends class driver, won the Every Man Challenge yesterday at King of the Hammers. The 2022 season officially begins on January 21 at Daytona International Speedway for the annual Roar Before the 24 with the momentous Rolex 24 at DAYTONA immediately following. Foyt Racing in the 2022 IndyCar season, also will be racing the GTD Pro class for Vasser Sullivan. Chip Ganassi Racing development driver Simpson is only 18, but he is the veteran of the Rolex 24 and the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship among the three drivers with INDYCAR ties on the Tower team. Its an honor to be part of this exceptional No. And that's not just the hype talking. 10 Acura will be piloted at the start by Filipe Albuquerque, who returns from last years third consecutive victory Ricky Taylor and Alexander Rossi. It is one of the most exciting and inspirational things Ive heard in all of motorsports in a good 20 years, SPEED SPORTs Ralph Sheheen said about what Jason Robinett has done in the off-road racing world with Ultra4 USA and MidAmerica Outdoors. Courtesy of IMSA; composing by Luc Warnotte: ROLEX 24 AT DAYTONA GTP TEAMS LINEUP. 2023 full-season drivers: Matt Bell and Orey Fidani. After a historic 2021, HPD looks forward to another year of victories with the No. RETWEET if you'll be watching the @INDYCAR season opener! The competition is tough as we have counted four different teams who have won the 7 championship races of 2022. Behind the wheel of the #8 Tower Motorsport LMP2 machine, Newgarden and McLaughlin will make their IMSA debuts in Daytona. Read here. endstream endobj startxref 9 team will need to solve their qualifying woes to get a seventh championship. I am looking forward to 2022 with my great teammate Ricky. ET, NBC). His recent career highlights include class wins in the World Endurance Championship and a runner-up campaign in the Blancpain GT Series. The No. Im thrilled to have the opportunity to race with this amazing group of drivers, McLaughlin said. There has been a lot of work put in during all of 2022 and we started seeing the results at the end of the season, so to be able to come back with the team and keep building on that starting at Daytona and then the rest of the championship is going to be key to delivering the best results. The two Mercedes-AMG GT3 Haupt Racing Team Mercedes dominated the qualification session and took the first row of the starting grid of the 24 Hours of Dubai demonstrating speed on the Duba track. Car Racing Reporter will be on site to report those four races. Lamborghini drivers, two-time winners of Daytona Mirko Bortolotti (2019 and 2020 Rolex 24 At Daytona GTD class), Andrea Caldarelli, former formula One Racer Romain Grosjean and Jordan Pepper, will compete with the new Lamborghini Huracn GT3 EVO2 at Daytona. Just missed: Felix Rosenqvist (still winless since 2020 but did well to finish ninth last year and will be driving for his future again this year); Graham Rahal (already has said he feels much better entering this season than 2022, which started with dismal results); Rinus VeeKay (let a win slip away at Barber Motorsports Park and seems motivated after a disappointing season). 2. Kay van Berlo was the third driver for IMEC rounds. Having raced primarily in single seaters, 24-year-old Louis Deltraz earned a name for himself, climbing up to compete in Formula 2 and spending two years as a Formula 1 Reserve Driver with Haas F1 Team. After finishing first in the 4600 stock class during the Every Man Challenge, off-road stars Loren Healy and Vaughn Gittin Jr. sit down with SPEED SPORTs Pam Hall to discuss their run at King of the Hammers. From then on the team decided to run the #97 WeatherTech Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 with Mercedes-Benz of Billings, Montana support for the remainder of the IMSA WeatherTech Championship schedule ending 6th in Teams GTD PRO class. During a 20-minute warmup Sunday morning, the Ganassi Cadillacs posted the top two speeds with van der Zande and Earl Bamber (who will share the No. 24 Hours At Daytona lineup: Nico Pino and Danny Soufi, who will make his IMSA. Its a great racing team, Wayne leads from the front and all our engineers just work well together and want to go racing. Your email address will not be published. Alexander Rossi will return on the No. Scott McLaughlin (tied fourth in 2022) He had a major breakthrough with three wins in his second IndyCar season, but he still is competing internally against two tough Penske teammates. This will be the first race at Daytona for two-time NTT INDYCAR SERIES champion Newgarden and 2021 series Rookie of the Year McLaughlin, teammates at Team Penske and co-hosts of the popular Bus Bros video series on YouTube. Seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion, Jimmie Johnson, who is moving to a full-time IndyCar schedule this year, will be making his second consecutive Rolex 24 start in the No. pic.twitter.com/vtjhuRBpCc, INDYCAR on NBC (@IndyCaronNBC) February 27, 2023, Michael Allio/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images, Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Flipboard (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window), Teams racing in the 2022 Rolex 24 at Daytona, Colton Herta and Pato OWard teaming on an LMP2 entry, who is moving to a full-time IndyCar schedule this year, Chip Ganassi Racings two Cadillacs in the DPi class, after joining the teams overall victory in 2021, Schedules, start times and how to watch the 2023 IndyCar season opener, entering Sundays Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg season opener. Full season: Klaus Bachler and Patrick Pilet. It starts with Arrow McLaren, which has added 2016 Indy 500 winner Alexander Rossi to its 1-2 combo of Pato OWard and Felix Rosenqvist. The @GPSTPete is Sunday at Noon ET on @NBC and @Peacock. Along with Filipe and Alex rejoining the team, we should have some really strong continuity moving into next season to keep building on our success with HPD and Acura. Im extremely happy with the opportunity to join John, Louis, and Ferdinand in the Rolex 24 At Daytona, said Andrade. Colton Herta (10th in 2022) Burned by some brutal mistakes and an off-year for Andretti Autosport, Herta wants to prove that he remains one of the fastest drivers in IndyCar. In the Rolex 24 Hours, they were accompanied by . 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