The Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti (WTRAndretti) pair of Acura ARX-06 GTPS enter the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring for the second round of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.

The Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti (WTRAndretti) newly expanded two-GTP stable completed a productive two days of testing at Daytona International Speedway this week.

After announcing WTRAndretti would feature two Acura ARX-06 GTP for the 2024 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season, WTRAndretti announced the IMEC drivers for the 2024 season and the to ROLEX 24 Hours of Daytona quartet with Ricky Taylor, Filipe Albuquerque, Brendon Hartley and Marcus Ericsson to co-pilot the #10 WTRAndretti Acura ARX-06 GTP and Jordan Taylor, Louis Delétraz, Colton Herta and Jenson Button in the #40 WTRAndretti Acura ARX-06 GTP.

Watkins Glen was a turning point in WTR season last year and Filipe Albuquerque, Louis Deletraz and Ricky Taylor are looking for a similar momentum shift this year.

Filipe Albuquerque did set the fastest lap of Rolex 24 practice 1 this morning. The #10 Konica Minolta Acura ARX-06 team and drivers are chasing their fifth win in the last seven attempts, and a record-tying sixth overall win at Rolex 24 At DAYTONA this weekend.  

Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti Autosport unveiled their full-season livery for the #10 Konica Minolta Acura ARX-06.

The race in GTD PRO was very intense with the top 3 ending within 5 sec. Matthieu Jaminet won the class with Pfaff Motorsport Porsche #9 co-driven by Matt Campbell and Felipe Nasr.

The race was very tight from start to finish as the top 4 finished within 5.615 sec., after having exchanged the lead in the closing hours and seeing all seven DPi cars on the lead during the first half of the race.

Many changes of leaders during the first half of the race with the 7 DPi’s within 5.5 sec. Currently #5 JDC Miller Motorsport Cadillac holds the lead thanks to less pits than competitors. In GTE PRO, 6 cars are within 6.6 sec.

Four time Indy car Champion Sebastien Bourdais dominated the session and was the only one to cover the lap in less than 1:35 with his #01 V-Performance Academy Cadillac.

Poor weather conditions for the Thursday sessions with a mostly wet track.

The second practice saw some dryer laps enabling the 2 WEC 2021 World Drivers Champions to perform the fastest laps with K. Kobayashi (#48 Ally Cadillac) in P1 and M. Conway (#31 Whelen Engineering Racing) in P2. 

Ricky Taylor, Filipe Albuquerque, Alexander Rossi and Will Stevens will start the 60th running of the 24 hours of Daytona from pole as Taylor and Albuquerque won the Rolex qualifying 100 minutes race this Sunday.