Cadillac Racing 2026 IMSA WeatherTech GTP Driver Line-Up
Cadillac Racing will take a continuity-led approach for the 2026 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, keeping its core GTP driver roster intact and adding targeted endurance strength. The programme enters its fourth year in Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) with a three-car Cadillac V-Series.R lineup. Wayne Taylor Racing and Action Express Racing will campaign. The teams closed the 2025 IMSA season with wins in the final two races, and they now carry that momentum into the 2026 title fight.
Eight drivers will return to chase 2026 championships, and Cadillac Formula 1® Team test driver Colton Herta will rejoin Wayne Taylor Racing for three endurance races. Wayne Taylor Racing will field the No. 10 Cadillac with Ricky Taylor and Filipe Albuquerque across the whole season, and Will Stevens will join them at Daytona, Sebring and Road Atlanta. The team will also run the No. 40 Cadillac with Jordan Taylor and Louis Deletraz for the whole season, and Colton Herta will take the third seat at Daytona, Sebring and Road Atlanta. Action Express Racing will campaign the No. 31 Cadillac Whelen entry with Jack Aitken and Earl Bamber for the season, and Frederik Vesti will step in for the endurance races. Cadillac will power each Cadillac V-Series.R with its purpose-built Cadillac 5.5L DOHC V8 engine.
Herta, 25, will join the Cadillac Formula 1 Team as a test driver and FIA Formula 2 competitor with Hitech Racing in 2026, and he already brings proven IMSA endurance form to the roster. He contested three IMSA endurance races in 2024 with Wayne Taylor Racing and shared the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring overall win with Jordan Taylor and Louis Deletraz. He also secured a GTP class podium in the Rolex 24 at Daytona. He previously won the GTLM class in 2019 and the LMP2 class in 2022 in the season-opening race at Daytona International Speedway.
Wayne Taylor Racing delivered consistent front-running results in 2025, and it will build on that baseline in 2026. Ricky Taylor and Albuquerque took the podium at Detroit, Watkins Glen, and Indianapolis. At the same time, Jordan Taylor and Deletraz finished runners-up at Watkins Glen in the team’s first Cadillac Racing GTP season.
Action Express Racing will also carry a strong platform into 2026 after a high-output season in the No. 31 Whelen Cadillac V-Series.R. The car scored two victories and led the most laps across the nine GTP races, and Aitken and the team finished second in the GTP Drivers and Team Championships. Aitken, Bamber, Vesti and the team also placed second in the IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup GTP standings.
Cadillac Racing will also keep a close link to its FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) effort. Bamber and Stevens will compete in the WEC season finale on November 8 at the Bahrain International Circuit. Stevens co-drove to Cadillac Racing’s maiden WEC victory in July at Interlagos, and Bamber and his Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA teammates finished runners-up in the six-hour race. The Nos. 12 and 38 Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA V-Series.Rs have qualified 1-2 in three of the past four races, and Cadillac remains mathematically in contention for the Manufacturers’ Championship.
IMSA competition will begin on January 24-25 with the 64th Rolex 24 at Daytona at Daytona International Speedway, which sits among five endurance races on the schedule. Cadillac Racing will announce an expanded Cadillac Racing roster for the Rolex 24 later.
Cadillac has earned four Manufacturer Championships, five IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup Manufacturer Championships and 33 victories since it entered IMSA prototype competition in 2017. The Cadillac V-Series.R marks the third generation of Cadillac prototype racecar and the first to use an electric motor component. Cadillac Design, Cadillac Racing, and chassis constructor Dallara co-developed the car, and the design incorporates key Cadillac V-Series production car cues, including vertical lighting and floating blades.
Wayne Taylor, owner, Wayne Taylor Racing: “I’m excited to get going for next year. It will be our second year with the Cadillac V-Series.R and we have learned so much this year. Having the same drivers for the full season and Will Stevens in the No. 10 Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing for the IMEC rounds brings great continuity to our program. We are delighted that Colton Herta can join Jordan and Louis in the No. 40 Cadillac WTR V-Series.R for the endurance events. The trio has been a great match and has had great success working together in 2024. Our team has so much positivity going into 2026, and we are all looking forward to the November test in Daytona.”
Gary Nelson, general manager, Action Express Racing: “We are thrilled to have our drivers, Jack Aitken, Earl Bamber and Fredrick Vesti, returning for 2026. Over the past couple of years, we have enjoyed watching them drive at a very high level in every race. Unfortunately, many times in early events in 2025, we did not get the results they deserved. We saw all along how well Jack, Earl and Fred were working together and how fast they were. We didn't seem to get the trophies they deserved. That all changed for the final two events, Indy and Atlanta. Everything came together, and we brought home the trophies. With our team ending 2025 with wins at the final two events, in 2026, we expect to pick up where we left off.”
Ricky Taylor: “We love consistency, but I think what is great about our current lineups is that it just continues to build the experience of the teams with the crossover between JOTA and WTR. We all have unique experiences, and we don’t get so much track time, so any experience from any of us is valuable. We approached every weekend this year with a blank notebook about the car, aside from what our Cadillac teammates had told us. So next year it will be great to go into each race with some solid first-hand notes to build on. We tend to learn so much in the races that it will be great to take that into the next season.”
Filipe Albuquerque: “During this year, we adapted and brought ideas that made us faster; some of them were possible during 2025, and some were not due to technical regulations, but in 2026, it will be possible. Sunday, after the Petit race, I was talking to Ricky about how excited I was to already start work on 2026. It’s like we never sleep. We had a very challenging year, with many ups and downs. From the racer in me, who is never happy, it was only OK. But if I step back and look at the overall picture, I must say it was a good year. We got three podiums, and we came super close to a win at GM’s home race. We have to be humble and realise that these cars are very far from what we are used to. They are very complex, and it would be a bit arrogant to show up and win in the first year. It will take time to adapt.”
Will Stevens: “Having a year’s experience with the Cadillac V-Series.R is a great help to go into 2026 knowing the things we want to work on to start the year off strong. We have great potential with the package we have, and it’s great to have the offseason to prepare ourselves for 2026. Going into our second season together with Cadillac, we have all the ingredients for success. Going into each event and different racetracks was a learning experience in 2025, and we now go into a new season together with all those foundations in place to build on all that momentum.”
Jack Aitken: “It's a really nice mix of personalities and roles. It's always important that, when you have a lineup with two guys for the sprint and three for the endurance set, everyone has their place. Earl has such a wealth of experience that really goes beyond his seasons and the endurance paddock. You'd think he'd been around for decades with the amount of knowledge that he's picked up. That's very valuable to both of us (Aitken and Vesti) as drivers and to the program. And Fred, of course, is bringing a lot of talent to that endurance role where he's sort of following the same path that I was in building up an experience in this new discipline of racing for him and helping us to win races. So, it's been an excellent year. It's fantastic that we're going to carry that on into next year, and the team is comfortable with us. We're comfortable with them. We all know what we're doing and how to do it, and it'll be much more about just going out and executing next year, which will be nice.”
Earl Bamber: “What we've been building this year, drivers, team, I think is something quite special. Saw the results at Indy and Petit. We absolutely dominated. We dominated Watkins Glen and put ourselves in position to win it at Road America as well. So, we've been knocking at the door, only to find it open. I think there's such a big positive vibe in the camp right now, and we just got to roll it through Daytona in 2026.”
Frederik Vesti: “I was really excited when I signed a contract last year,r and I think I didn't reallyrealisee what I was going into, the task ahead, because it is really top level. It's really not an easy category to be in. It's drivers who have been driving these types of cars for over 15 years that I'm racing against, which has been truly amazing. I remember my first restart in Daytona, thrown straight into the lead on my first ever laps in a GTP car in a race—just great memories from that. And then what I really note is the step I've made each weekend since Daytona, and that I will continue to make into next year. I'm really excited for next year, and I'm also really proud and happy with the team we have, with Earl being the experienced one, Jack being the fast one, and me being the rookie. I definitely have excellent teammates that I'm learning from, and that's pretty clear. So, yeah, I'm excited for the future and more IMSA races in the Cadillac.”
Jordan Taylor: “We learned so much as a team from the start of the season to where we are now, so I think this offseason is going to be very busy for everyone to take that data and information, analyse it, and come back even stronger next year. Almost every track we went to this year was new for us with this car, so having that data to look back on in 2026 will be invaluable. I know we didn’t have the results we wanted in 2025, but I’m confident we’ll be battling for race wins next year. A few podiums between the two cars were great, but we know that we want to be racing for wins every weekend. We were operating very well as a team by the end of the year. We need to maintain that momentum, bring it into this offseason and hit the ground running in Daytona.”
Louis Deletraz: “I’m really excited to continue with Cadillac Racing and Wayne Taylor Racing for the 2026 season. I have worked with a lot of amazing and talented people this year; it feels like we have learned a lot and now we can use the winter to push the Cadillac V-Series.R to its limit. The goal is to start 2026 strong and fight for victories every weekend. We’re racers, and we always want more. This year at Watkins Glen, we had a double Cadillac WTR podium, and it was an amazing feeling within the team. We want to repeat that many times. Keeping the same car, the same people, and the same drivers brings consistency. I am convinced it will make us stronger after so much learning this year.”
Colton Herta: “Super excited to join Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing for the endurance rounds next year. We had some success when I was with the team last time, and I hope to continue that. Jordan and Louis are some of the best drivers in the business, and it’s a pleasure to join them on this adventure. I can’t wait to get behind the wheel of the Cadillac’s naturally aspirated engine. Daytona can’t come soon enough.”
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Cadillac Racing will build its 2026 campaign around continuity and experience, as it confirms a stable driver group for the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. Wayne Taylor Racing and Action Express Racing will campaign a three-car GTP effort in the Cadillac V-Series. The programme will enter its fourth season in the category after the teams won the final two races of the 2025 IMSA season.
Cadillac Racing will bring back eight drivers to challenge for 2026 titles, and Cadillac Formula 1® Team test driver Colton Herta will rejoin Wayne Taylor Racing for three endurance races. Ricky Taylor and Filipe Albuquerque will drive the No. 10 Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing V-Series.R for the whole season, and Will Stevens will join them at Daytona, Sebring and Road Atlanta. Jordan Taylor and Louis Deletraz will drive the No. 40 Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing V-Series.R for the whole season, and Colton Herta will join them at Daytona, Sebring and Road Atlanta. Jack Aitken and Earl Bamber will lead the season effort in the No. 31 Cadillac Whelen V-Series.R, and Frederik Vesti will take the third seat for the endurance races. The purpose-built Cadillac 5.5L DOHC V8 engine powers each Cadillac V-Series.R.
Herta, 25, will join the Cadillac Formula 1 Team as a test driver and FIA Formula 2 competitor with Hitech Racing in 2026, and he also brings proven IMSA endurance form. He contested three IMSA endurance races in 2024 with Wayne Taylor Racing, co-driving with Jordan Taylor and Louis Deletraz to overall victory in the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring, while also earning a GTP class podium in the Rolex 24 at Daytona. He also won the GTLM class in 2019 and the LMP2 class in 2022 in the season-opening race at Daytona International Speedway.
Wayne Taylor Racing will carry forward a solid 2025 foundation. Ricky Taylor and Albuquerque earned podiums at Detroit, Watkins Glen and Indianapolis, and Jordan Taylor and Deletraz took runners-up honours at Watkins Glen in the team’s first Cadillac Racing season in GTP.
Action Express Racing will also push into 2026 with momentum and clear benchmarks. Aitken will return for his fourth season in the No. 31 Whelen Cadillac V-Series. The car secured two victories and led the most laps across the nine GTP races in 2025. Aitken and Action Express Racing finished second in the GTP Drivers and Team Championships, and Aitken, Bamber, Vesti and the team placed second in the IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup GTP standings.
Cadillac Racing will also keep a close link with its FIA World Endurance Championship programme. Bamber and Stevens will compete in the WEC season finale on November 8 at the Bahrain International Circuit, after Stevens co-drove Cadillac Racing’s maiden WEC victory in July at Interlagos and Bamber and his Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA teammates finished runners-up in the six-hour race. The Nos. 12 and 38 Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA V-Series.Rs have qualified 1-2 in three of the past four races, and Cadillac remains mathematically in contention for the Manufacturers’ Championship.
The nine-race IMSA season starts January 24-25 with the 64th Rolex 24 at Daytona International Speedway, one of five endurance races on the schedule. Cadillac Racing will announce an expanded Cadillac Racing roster for the Rolex 24 at a later date.
Cadillac has earned four Manufacturer Championships, five IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup Manufacturer Championships and 33 victories since it entered IMSA prototype competition in 2017. The Cadillac V-Series.R marks the third generation of Cadillac prototype racecar and the first to include an electric motor component. Cadillac Design, Cadillac Racing, and chassis constructor Dallara co-developed the car, and the package incorporates key Cadillac V-Series production car design elements, including vertical lighting and floating blades.
Wayne Taylor, owner, Wayne Taylor Racing: “I’m excited to get going for next year. It will be our second year with the Cadillac V-Series.R and we have learned so much this year. Having the same drivers for the full season and Will Stevens in the No. 10 Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing for the IMEC rounds brings great continuity to our program. We are delighted that Colton Herta can join Jordan and Louis in the No. 40 Cadillac WTR V-Series.R for the endurance events. The trio has been a great match and has had great success working together in 2024. Our team has so much positivity going into 2026, and we are all looking forward to the November test in Daytona.”
Gary Nelson, general manager, Action Express Racing: “We are thrilled to have our drivers, Jack Aitken, Earl Bamber and Fredrick Vesti, returning for 2026. Over the past couple of years, we have enjoyed watching them drive at a very high level in every race. Unfortunately, many times in early events in 2025, we did not get the results they deserved. We saw all along how well Jack, Earl and Fred were working together and how fast they were. We didn't seem to get the trophies they deserved. That all changed for the final two events, Indy and Atlanta. Everything came together, and we brought home the trophies. With our team ending 2025 with wins at the final two events, in 2026, we expect to pick up where we left off.”
Ricky Taylor: “We love consistency, but I think what is great about our current lineups is that it just continues to build the experience of the teams with the crossover between JOTA and WTR. We all have unique experiences, and we don’t get so much track time, so any experience from any of us is valuable. We approached every weekend this year with a blank notebook about the car, aside from what our Cadillac teammates had told us. So next year it will be great to go into each race with some solid first-hand notes to build on. We tend to learn so much in the races that it will be great to take that into the next season.”
Filipe Albuquerque: “During this year, we adapted and brought ideas that made us faster; some of them were possible during 2025, and some were not due to technical regulations, but in 2026, it will be possible. Sunday, after the Petit race, I was talking to Ricky about how excited I was to already start work on 2026. It’s like we never sleep. We had a very challenging year, with many ups and downs. From the racer in me, who is never happy, it was only OK. But if I step back and look at the overall picture, I must say it was a good year. We got three podiums, and we came super close to a win at GM’s home race. We have to be humble and realise that these cars are very far from what we are used to. They are very complex, and it would be a bit arrogant to show up and win in the first year. It will take time to adapt.”
Will Stevens: “Having a year’s experience with the Cadillac V-Series.R is a great help to go into 2026 knowing the things we want to work on to start the year off strong. We have great potential with the package we have, and it’s great to have the offseason to prepare ourselves for 2026. Going into our second season together with Cadillac, we have all the ingredients for success. Going into each event and different racetracks was a learning experience in 2025, and we now go into a new season together with all those foundations in place to build on all that momentum.”
Jack Aitken: “It's a really nice mix of personalities and roles. It's always important that, when you have a lineup with two guys for the sprint and three for the endurance set, everyone has their place. Earl has such a wealth of experience that really goes beyond his seasons and the endurance paddock. You'd think he'd been around for decades with the amount of knowledge that he's picked up. That's very valuable to both of us (Aitken and Vesti) as drivers and to the program. And Fred, of course, is bringing a lot of talent to that endurance role where he's sort of following the same path that I was in building up an experience in this new discipline of racing for him and helping us to win races. So, it's been an excellent year. It's fantastic that we're going to carry that on into next year, and the team is comfortable with us. We're comfortable with them. We all know what we're doing and how to do it, and it'll be much more about just going out and executing next year, which will be nice.”
Earl Bamber: “What we've been building this year, drivers, team, I think, is something quite special. Saw the results at Indy and Petit. We absolutely dominated. We dominated Watkins Glen and put ourselves in position to win it at Road America as well. So, we've been knocking at the door, only to find it open. I think there's such a big positive vibe in the camp right now, and we just got to roll it through Daytona in 2026.”
Frederik Vesti: “I was really excited when I signed a contract last year, and I think I didn't really realise what I was going into, the task ahead, because it is really top level. It's really not an easy category to be in. It's drivers who have been driving these types of cars for over 15 years that I'm racing against, which has been truly amazing. I remember my first restart in Daytona, thrown straight into the lead on my first ever laps in a GTP car in a race—just great memories from that. And then what I really note is the step I've made each weekend since Daytona, and that I will continue to make into next year. I'm really excited for next year, and I'm also really proud and happy with the team we have, with Earl being the experienced one, Jack being the fast one, and me being the rookie. I definitely have excellent teammates that I'm learning from, and that's pretty clear. So, yeah, I'm excited for the future and more IMSA races in the Cadillac.”
Jordan Taylor: “We learned so much as a team from the start of the season to where we are now, so I think this offseason is going to be very busy for everyone to take that data and information, analyse it, and come back even stronger next year. Almost every track we went to this year was new for us with this car, so having that data to look back on in 2026 will be invaluable. I know we didn’t have the results we wanted in 2025, but I’m confident we’ll be battling for race wins next year. A few podiums between the two cars were great, but we know that we want to be racing for wins every weekend. We were operating very well as a team by the end of the year. We need to maintain that momentum, bring it into this offseason and hit the ground running in Daytona.”
Louis Deletraz: “I’m really excited to continue with Cadillac Racing and Wayne Taylor Racing for the 2026 season. I have worked with a lot of amazing and talented people this year; it feels like we have learned a lot and now we can use the winter to push the Cadillac V-Series.R to its limit. The goal is to start 2026 strong and fight for victories every weekend. We’re racers, and we always want more. This year at Watkins Glen, we had a double Cadillac WTR podium, and it was an amazing feeling within the team. We want to repeat that many times. Keeping the same car, the same people, and the same drivers brings consistency. I am convinced it will make us stronger after so much learning this year.”
Colton Herta: “Super excited to join Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing for the endurance rounds next year. We had some success when I was with the team last time, and I hope to continue that. Jordan and Louis are some of the best drivers in the business, and it’s a pleasure to join them on this adventure. I can’t wait to get behind the wheel of the Cadillac’s naturally aspirated engine. Daytona can’t come soon enough.”