Wayne Taylor Racing Returns Same Full-Season Lineup; Aitken Will Pair with Bamber in No. 31 Cadillac Whelen
DETROIT – Cadillac Racing’s driver roster for the 2025 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season includes a lineup of experienced and championship-winning drivers.
In 2025, Cadillac Racing expands its factory program from two to three cars for the third year of Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) competition that starts January 25-26 with the Rolex 24 At Daytona. Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing will run two cars, while Action Express Racing will run one car as Cadillac Whelen.
Drivers who will contest all nine rounds of the GTP schedule in Cadillac V-Series.Rs – powered by the purpose-built Cadillac 5.5-liter, DOHC V-8 engine – and those who will drive in IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup rounds are:
Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing (No. 10)
• Ricky Taylor, Filipe Albuquerque (full season)
• Will Stevens (Daytona, Sebring, Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta)
• Brendon Hartley (Daytona)
Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing (No. 40)
• Jordan Taylor, Louis Deletraz (full season)
• Alex Lynn (Daytona, Sebring, Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta)
• Kamui Kobayashi (Daytona)
Cadillac Whelen (No. 31)
• Jack Aitken, Earl Bamber (full season)
• Frederik Vesti (endurance races)
The lineup represents eight Rolex 24 overall victories (six with Cadillac Racing) and 11 24 Hours of Le Mans overall/class victories among other significant accomplishments.
The Nos. 10 and 40 Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing full-time roster is unchanged from the 2024 season in which the team posted two victories and two other podium finishes driving Acura ARX-06s. Deletraz and Jordan Taylor teamed for victory in the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring while Albuquerque and Ricky Taylor won the 100-minute sprint on the streets of Detroit. Kobayashi, a two-time Rolex 24 winner, returns to Cadillac Racing for the Daytona season opener after a two-year absence.
Aitken returns for his second full season and third overall in the No. 31 Whelen Cadillac V-Series.R run by Action Express Racing, which recorded four pole starts and three runner-up finishes this past season. Bamber, who has driven the No. 2 Cadillac V-Series.R the past two seasons in the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC), is no stranger to IMSA competition. The 2019 GT Le Mans (GTLM) champion co-drove a Cadillac DPi-V.R to victory in 2022 at Sebring and this past season drove a Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports Corvette Z06 GT3.R in Grand Touring Daytona Pro (GTD PRO) class endurance races.
Vesti, the 2023 FIA Formula 2 runner-up, will make his GTP debut at Daytona International Speedway in January.
Cadillac Racing 2025 Drivers by the Numbers:
• IMSA prototype championships: 3
• Rolex 24 At Daytona overall victories: 8 (6 with Cadillac Racing)
• Twelve Hours of Sebring overall victories: 6 (4 with Cadillac Racing)
• Motul Petit Le Mans overall victories: 4
• WEC LMP1/Hypercar championships: 7
• WEC LMP2 championships: 2
• 24 Hours of Le Mans overall/class victories: 11
Cadillac has earned nine manufacturer championships in sports car racing since 2005 and five IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup manufacturer championships since 2017.
The Cadillac V-Series.R marks the third-generation Cadillac prototype race car and first with an electric motor component. The car – co-developed by Cadillac Design, Cadillac Racing and chassis constructor Dallara – incorporates key Cadillac V-Series production car design elements, such as vertical lighting and floating blades.