2025 IMSA SportsCar Championship
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The 2025 IMSA SportsCar Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the 2025 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship) is a planned motor racing championship, set to be the 55th racing season sanctioned by the International Motor Sports Association, which traces its lineage back to the 1971 IMSA GT Championship. It will also be the twelfth season of the IMSA SportsCar Championship since the merger between the American Le Mans Series and the Rolex Sports Car Series in 2014, and the tenth under the sponsorship of WeatherTech.
Classes
[edit]- Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) (LMDh and LMH)
- Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2)
- GT Daytona Pro (GTD Pro)
- GT Daytona (GTD)
Schedule
[edit]The provisional schedule was released on March 15, 2024, and features an unchanged 11 rounds.[1][2]
Race is part of the Michelin Endurance Cup
Entries
[edit]Grand Touring Prototype (GTP)
[edit]Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2)
[edit]In accordance with the 2017 LMP2 regulations, all cars in the LMP2 class use the Gibson GK428 V8 engine.[21]
GT Daytona (GTD Pro / GTD)
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ Kvyat is Russian, but he competes as a neutral competitor as Russian national emblems were banned by the FIA following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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