The IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship’s new GTP era, using Le Mans Daytona hybrids, begins in 2023, and Wayne Taylor Racing’s Ricky Taylor and Filipe Albuquerque are leading the final DPi-era championship heading into the last race of the season, tomorrow’s 10-hour Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta.
Between 2011 and 2016, the WTR-run Corvette Daytona Prototype captured 18 race wins, and won the 2013 championship but the introduction of the Daytona Prototype international regulations for 2017 didn’t cause Taylor’s team to skip a step. WTR captured that first championship, and scored nine race wins – including three Rolex 24 Hours at Daytonas – with the Dallara-based Cadillac DPi-V.R.
