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The 2023 IMSA SportsCar Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the 2023 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship) is a planned motor racing championship, set to be the 53rd 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 tenth 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 eighth under the sponsorship of WeatherTech. The 2023 season marks an overhaul season for the championship, with a change in class structure and a new race on the season calendar at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The championship will begin with the 24 Hours of Daytona on January 28 and conclude with the Petit Le Mans on October 14 after 11 races.

Classes

Grand Touring Prototype class logo
The Porsche 963 (pictured at the 2022 Goodwood Festival of Speed) is one of the prototype race cars that are allowed to compete under IMSA’s new GTP class. It complies with the LMDh regulations.

At the end of the 2022 season, IMSA retired the Daytona Prototype International (DPi) class, which was the premier racing class in the WeatherTech Championship from 2017 until 2022, spanning six seasons. IMSA replaced it with a new class called GTP, named in tribute to the GTP class from the IMSA GT Championship in the 1980s.

GTP is the new flagship class of the championship and consists of two sister technical regulations: LMDh (Le Mans Daytona hybrid), and LMH (Le Mans Hypercar). LMDh allows choosing from a base chassis, of which there are four choices, from Dallara, Ligier, Multimatic, and Oreca, as well as a specification hybrid system on all cars, with freedom on aerodynamics, bodywork, and engine configuration. The LMH regulation allows bespoke hybrid designs and offers more mechanical design freedom in exchange for elevated development costs. As with the DPi class, GTP is regulated by a Balance of Performance (BoP) system to keep the performance range of each of the cars close together and regulate spending.

The GTP class consists of the same framework as the Hypercar class of the FIA World Endurance Championship. A collaborative alliance between IMSA and the French racing organizers, ACO, resulted in the convergence of the two organizers' top-class regulations.[1]

After initially announcing discontinuing the sub-championship entirely on August 5, IMSA later declared on September 1 that they would continue the WeatherTech Sprint Cup, a championship comprising only sprint rounds for the GT Daytona (GTD) class. The only difference was that there would be no Sprint Cup-only rounds for 2023, to combat situations such as the record-low six-car GTD entry at the 2022 Chevrolet Grand Prix.[2][3]

Schedule

Indianapolis Motor Speedway is set to return to the championship's schedule for the first time since 2014.

The provisional schedule was released on August 5, 2022, and features 11 rounds.[4][5][6]

   Race is part of the Michelin Endurance Cup
   Race is part of the WeatherTech Sprint Cup
Rnd. Race Length Classes Circuit Location Date
1 Rolex 24 at Daytona 24 hours All[N 1] Daytona International Speedway Daytona Beach, Florida January 28–29
2 Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Presented by Advance Auto Parts 12 hours All Sebring International Raceway Sebring, Florida March 18
3 Grand Prix of Long Beach 1 hour, 40 minutes GTP, GTD Pro, GTD Long Beach Street Circuit Long Beach, California April 15
4 Motul Course de Monterey 2 hours, 40 minutes GTP, LMP2, GTD Pro, GTD WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca Monterey, California May 14
5 Sahlen's Six Hours of The Glen 6 hours All Watkins Glen International Watkins Glen, New York June 25
6 TBA 2 hours, 40 minutes GTP, LMP3, GTD Pro, GTD Canadian Tire Motorsport Park Bowmanville, Ontario July 9
7 Northeast Grand Prix 2 hours, 40 minutes GTD Pro, GTD Lime Rock Park Lakeville, Connecticut July 22
8 TBA 2 hours, 40 minutes All Road America Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin August 6
9 Michelin GT Challenge at VIR 2 hours, 40 minutes GTD Pro, GTD Virginia International Raceway Alton, Virginia August 27
10 IMSA Battle on the Bricks 2 hours, 40 minutes All Indianapolis Motor Speedway Speedway, Indiana September 17
11 Motul Petit Le Mans 10 hours All Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta Braselton, Georgia October 14
  • Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course was dropped from the calendar. The track had been a part of the championship since 2018. The event was replaced with a sprint race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, marking IMS' return to the championship for the first time since the series' inaugural season in 2014.[4]
  • The Raceway on Belle Isle was also dropped from the calendar as a result of the Belle Isle circuit being replaced in favor of the Detroit street circuit. The track was a part of the championship for every season of the IMSA SportsCar Championship since its inception in 2014, except for 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[4]
  • On December 1, 2022, it was announced that the Rolex 24 Qualifying Race had been canceled for 2023, with the race reverting to a traditional qualifying format. Qualifying will take place on January 22, the final day of the "Roar Before the Rolex 24" preseason test.[7]

Rule Changes

  • In response to the 2022 Six Hours of The Glen which saw several cars penalized for drive-time infringements as a result of a red flag for inclement weather, IMSA will now reduce the required drive time by a ratio of 2:1 corresponding to a percentage of the race time lost, rather than 1:1 as had been the rule previously.[8] For example: If a race is shortened by 10 percent due to a red flag condition, each driver's minimum required drive time would be reduced by 20 percent.
  • The minimum sprint race drive time for bronze-categorized drivers in the GTD Class has been reduced from 45 minutes to 35 minutes.[9]
  • As an incentive for bronze-categorized drivers to participate in qualifying in the GTD Class, teams whose qualifying time is set by a bronze-categorized driver will be permitted to change tires for the start of the race, while teams utilizing drivers of any other categorization must start the race on the tires used in qualifying.[9]
  • For drivers competing in more than one car during a race, the cumulative maximum drive time no longer applies to races under 6 hours in length.[8]

Entries

Grand Touring Prototype (GTP)

Team Chassis Engine No. Drivers Rounds
United States Cadillac Racing[10][11] Cadillac V-LMDh[12] Cadillac 5.5 L V8 01 France Sébastien Bourdais[13] TBA
New Zealand Scott Dixon[14] TBA
Netherlands Renger van der Zande[13] TBA
02 New Zealand Earl Bamber[15] TBA
United Kingdom Alex Lynn[15] TBA
United Kingdom Richard Westbrook[15] TBA
Germany Porsche Penske Motorsport[16][17] Porsche 963 Porsche 4.6 L Turbo V8 6 United States Dane Cameron[18] TBA
France Mathieu Jaminet[18] TBA
United Kingdom Nick Tandy[18] TBA
7 Australia Matt Campbell[18] TBA
Denmark Michael Christensen[18] TBA
Brazil Felipe Nasr[18] TBA
United States Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti Autosport[19][20][21] Acura ARX-06 Acura AR24e 2.4 L Turbo V6[22] 10 Portugal Filipe Albuquerque[23] TBA
Switzerland Louis Delétraz[24] TBA
New Zealand Brendon Hartley[24] TBA
United States Ricky Taylor[25] TBA
United States BMW M Team RLL[26][27] BMW M Hybrid V8 BMW P66/3 4.0 L Turbo V8 24 Austria Philipp Eng[28] TBA
Brazil Augusto Farfus[28][29] TBA
United States Colton Herta[28] TBA
Germany Marco Wittmann[30] TBA
25 United States Connor De Phillippi[28] TBA
United States Colton Herta[28] TBA
South Africa Sheldon van der Linde[30] TBA
United Kingdom Nick Yelloly[28] TBA
United States Whelen Engineering Racing[10][31] Cadillac V-LMDh Cadillac 5.5 L V8 31 United Kingdom Jack Aitken[14] TBA
Brazil Pipo Derani[13] TBA
United Kingdom Alexander Sims[13] TBA
United States Meyer Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian[19] Acura ARX-06 Acura AR24e 2.4 L Turbo V6[22] 60 United Kingdom Tom Blomqvist[32][33] TBA
United States Colin Braun[34] TBA
Brazil Hélio Castroneves[35] TBA
France Simon Pagenaud[35] TBA
United States JDC-Miller MotorSports[36] Porsche 963 Porsche 4.6 L Turbo V8 TBA TBA TBA
TBA TBA
TBA TBA
Germany Proton Competition[37] Porsche 963 Porsche 4.6 L Turbo V8 TBA TBA TBA
TBA TBA
TBA TBA

Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2)

In accordance with the 2017 LMP2 regulations, all cars in the LMP2 class use the Gibson GK428 V8 engine.[38]

Team Chassis No. Drivers Rounds
Portugal CrowdStrike Racing by APR[39] Oreca 07 04 Mexico Esteban Gutiérrez[39] TBA
United Kingdom Ben Hanley[39] TBA
United States George Kurtz[39] TBA
United States Matt McMurry[39] TBA
United States Tower Motorsports[40] Oreca 07 8 Canada John Farano[40] TBA
New Zealand Scott McLaughlin[40] TBA
United States Josef Newgarden[40] TBA
Barbados Kyffin Simpson[40] TBA
France TDS Racing[41][42] Oreca 07 11 United States Scott Huffaker[43] TBA
Denmark Mikkel Jensen[43] TBA
United States Steven Thomas[42][43] TBA
Netherlands Rinus VeeKay[44] TBA
35 Netherlands Giedo van der Garde[45] TBA
France François Heriau[46] TBA
United States Josh Pierson[45] TBA
Netherlands Job van Uitert[47] TBA
United States Era Motorsport[48] Oreca 07 18 United Kingdom Ryan Dalziel[49] TBA
United Kingdom Oliver Jarvis[50] TBA
United States Dwight Merriman[49] TBA
Denmark Christian Rasmussen[49] TBA
Denmark High Class Racing[51] Oreca 07 20 Denmark Dennis Andersen[51] TBA
Denmark Anders Fjordbach[51] TBA
United Arab Emirates Ed Jones[51] TBA
Switzerland Raffaele Marciello[51] TBA
United States Rick Ware Racing[52] Oreca 07 51 United States Austin Cindric[52] TBA
Canada Devlin DeFrancesco[52] TBA
Brazil Pietro Fittipaldi[52] TBA
United States Eric Lux[52] TBA
United States PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports[48] Oreca 07 52 France Paul-Loup Chatin[53] TBA
United States Ben Keating[53] TBA
France Nicolas Lapierre[53] TBA
United Kingdom Alex Quinn[53] TBA
Germany Proton Competition[48][37] Oreca 07 55 TBA TBA
TBA TBA
TBA TBA
Italy AF Corse[48] Oreca 07 88 France Julien Canal[54] TBA
Denmark Nicklas Nielsen[54] TBA
France François Perrodo[54] TBA
France Matthieu Vaxivière[54] TBA

Le Mans Prototype 3 (LMP3)

In accordance with the 2020 LMP3 regulations, all cars in the LMP3 class use the Nissan VK56DE 5.6L V8 engine.

Team Chassis No. Drivers Rounds
Canada AWA[55] Duqueine M30 - D08 13 United Kingdom Matt Bell[55] TBA
Canada Orey Fidani[55] TBA
Germany Lars Kern[55] TBA
Germany Moritz Kranz[55] TBA
17 United Kingdom Wayne Boyd[55] TBA
Canada Anthony Mantella[55] TBA
United States Thomas Merrill[55] TBA
Argentina Nicolás Varrone[55] TBA
United States Jr III Motorsports[56] Ligier JS P320 30 United States Ari Balogh[56] TBA
Canada Garett Grist[56] TBA
TBA TBA
TBA TBA TBA
TBA TBA
TBA TBA
United States Sean Creech Motorsport[57] Ligier JS P320 33 Portugal João Barbosa[57] TBA
Chile Nico Pino[58] TBA
United States Danny Soufi[58] TBA
United States Lance Willsey[57] TBA
United States Andretti Autosport[48] Ligier JS P320 36 TBA TBA
TBA TBA
TBA TBA
United States Performance Tech Motorsports[59] Ligier JS P320 38 United States Christopher Allen[59] TBA
United States Connor Bloum[59] TBA
United States John De Angelis[59] TBA
Australia Cameron Shields[59] TBA
United States JDC-Miller Motorsports[36] Duqueine M30 - D08 40 United Kingdom Till Bechtolsheimer[60] TBA
United States Mason Filippi[60] TBA
Netherlands Tijmen van der Helm[60] TBA
United States Luca Mars[60] TBA
Germany MRS GT-Racing[48] Ligier JS P320 43 Mexico Sebastián Álvarez[61] TBA
Singapore Danial Frost[61] TBA
Portugal Guilherme Oliveira[61] TBA
United States Alex Vogel[61] TBA
United States Riley Motorsports[48] Ligier JS P320 74 TBA TBA
TBA TBA
TBA TBA
United States FastMD Racing[48] Duqueine M30 - D08 87 TBA TBA
TBA TBA
TBA TBA

GT Daytona (GTD Pro / GTD)

Team Chassis Engine No. Drivers Rounds
GTD Pro
United States Corvette Racing[62] Chevrolet Corvette C8.R GTD Chevrolet 5.5 L V8 3 Spain Antonio García[62] TBA
United States Tommy Milner[62] TBA
United States Jordan Taylor[62] TBA
Canada Pfaff Motorsports[63] Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) Porsche 4.2 L Flat-6[64] 9 Austria Klaus Bachler[65] TBA
France Patrick Pilet[65] TBA
Belgium Laurens Vanthoor[65] TBA
United States Vasser Sullivan Racing[66] Lexus RC F GT3 Toyota 2UR 5.0 L V8 14 United Kingdom Ben Barnicoat[66] TBA
United Kingdom Mike Conway[67] TBA
United Kingdom Jack Hawksworth[66] TBA
United States Heart of Racing Team[68] Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 Aston Martin 4.0 L Turbo V8 23 United Kingdom Ross Gunn[68] TBA
United Kingdom David Pittard[68] TBA
Spain Alex Riberas[68] TBA
United States Risi Competizione[69] Ferrari 296 GT3 Ferrari 3.0 L Turbo V6 62 United Kingdom James Calado[70] TBA
Italy Alessandro Pier Guidi[70] TBA
Italy Davide Rigon[70] TBA
Brazil Daniel Serra[70] TBA
Italy Iron Lynx[71] Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo 2 Lamborghini 5.2 L V10 63 Italy Mirko Bortolotti[72][73] TBA
Italy Andrea Caldarelli[72][73] TBA
France Romain Grosjean[72][73] TBA
South Africa Jordan Pepper[73] TBA
United Kingdom TGM/TF Sport[74] Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 Aston Martin 4.0 L Turbo V8 64 United States Ted Giovanis[74] TBA
United States Hugh Plumb[74] TBA
United States Matt Plumb[74] TBA
United States Owen Trinkler[74] TBA
United States WeatherTech Racing[75] Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo Mercedes-AMG M159 6.2 L V8 79 Germany Maro Engel[75] TBA
Andorra Jules Gounon[75] TBA
Spain Daniel Juncadella[75] TBA
United States Cooper MacNeil[75] TBA
United States BMW M Team Turner[76] BMW M4 GT3 BMW S58B30T0 3.0 L Turbo I6 95 United States Bill Auberlen[77][78] TBA
United States John Edwards[78] TBA
United States Chandler Hull[76][78] TBA
Canada Bruno Spengler[78] TBA
GTD
United States Triarsi Competizione[79] Ferrari 296 GT3 Ferrari 3.0 L Turbo V6 023 Italy Andrea Bertolini[79] TBA
Italy Alessio Rovera[79] TBA
United States Charlie Scardina[79] TBA
United States Onofrio Triarsi[79] TBA
United States Paul Miller Racing[80] BMW M4 GT3 BMW S58B30T0 3.0 L Turbo I6 1 United States Corey Lewis[81] TBA
Belgium Maxime Martin[81] TBA
United States Bryan Sellers[80][81] TBA
United States Madison Snow[80][81] TBA
United States Vasser Sullivan Racing[82] Lexus RC F GT3 Toyota 2UR 5.0 L V8 12 United States Kyle Kirkwood[83] TBA
United States Frankie Montecalvo[82] TBA
United States Aaron Telitz[82] TBA
Canada Parker Thompson[84] TBA
United States Wright Motorsports[85][86] Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) Porsche 4.2 L Flat-6 16 United States Ryan Hardwick[85] TBA
Belgium Jan Heylen[87] TBA
Norway Dennis Olsen[87] TBA
Canada Zacharie Robichon[87] TBA
77 United States Alan Brynjolfsson[88] TBA
France Kévin Estre[89] TBA
United States Trent Hindman[88] TBA
United States Maxwell Root[89] TBA
Italy Iron Lynx[71] Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo 2 Lamborghini 5.2 L V10 19 Italy Raffaele Giammaria[73] TBA
Switzerland Rolf Ineichen[73] TBA
France Franck Perera[73] TBA
Italy Claudio Schiavoni[73] TBA
Italy Iron Dames[71][90] 83 Belgium Sarah Bovy[73] TBA
Switzerland Rahel Frey[73] TBA
Denmark Michelle Gatting[73] TBA
France Doriane Pin[73] TBA
Italy AF Corse[91] Ferrari 296 GT3 Ferrari 3.0 L Turbo V6 21 Italy Francesco Castellacci[91] TBA
United Kingdom Simon Mann[91] TBA
Argentina Luis Pérez Companc[91] TBA
Spain Miguel Molina[91] TBA
United States Heart of Racing Team[68] Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 Aston Martin 4.0 L Turbo V8 27 Canada Roman De Angelis[68] TBA
United Kingdom Ian James[68] TBA
Denmark Marco Sørensen[68] TBA
United Kingdom Darren Turner[68] TBA
United States Team Korthoff Motorsports[92] Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo Mercedes-AMG M159 6.2 L V8 32 Germany Maximilian Götz[92] TBA
Canada Mikaël Grenier[92] TBA
United States Kenton Koch[92] TBA
United States Mike Skeen[92] TBA
United States NTE Sport[93] Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo 2 Lamborghini 5.2 L V10 42 United States Jaden Conwright[93] TBA
Italy Alessio Deledda[93] TBA
China Kerong Li[93] TBA
United States Don Yount[93] TBA
United States Magnus Racing[94] Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 Aston Martin 4.0 L Turbo V8 44 United States Andy Lally[94] TBA
United States John Potter[94] TBA
United States Spencer Pumpelly[94] TBA
Denmark Nicki Thiim[95] TBA
Italy Cetilar Racing[96] Ferrari 296 GT3 Ferrari 3.0 L Turbo V6 47 Italy Alessandro Balzan[97] TBA
Italy Antonio Fuoco[97] TBA
Italy Roberto Lacorte[97] TBA
Italy Giorgio Sernagiotto[97] TBA
United States MDK Motorsports[98] Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) Porsche 4.2 L Flat-6 53 United States Trenton Estep[98] TBA
United States Mark Kvamme[98] TBA
Denmark Jan Magnussen[98] TBA
Denmark Kevin Magnussen[98] TBA
United States Winward Racing[48][99] Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo Mercedes-AMG M159 6.2 L V8 57 Austria Lucas Auer[99] TBA
Netherlands Indy Dontje[99] TBA
Switzerland Philip Ellis[99] TBA
United States Russell Ward[99] TBA
United States Gradient Racing[100] Acura NSX GT3 Evo22 Acura 3.5 L Turbo V6 66 Germany Mario Farnbacher[100] TBA
United Kingdom Katherine Legge[100] TBA
United States Marc Miller[100] TBA
United States Sheena Monk[100] TBA
United Kingdom Inception Racing[101] McLaren 720S GT3 McLaren M840T 4.0 L Turbo V8 70 Germany Marvin Kirchhöfer[101] TBA
United States Brendan Iribe[101] TBA
United Kingdom Ollie Millroy[101] TBA
Denmark Frederik Schandorff[101] TBA
Australia SunEnergy1[102][103] Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo Mercedes-AMG M159 6.2 L V8 75 Australia Kenny Habul[102] TBA
Zimbabwe Axcil Jefferies[103] TBA
Australia Will Power[104] TBA
Germany Fabian Schiller[103] TBA
United States US RaceTronics[48] Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo 2 Lamborghini 5.2 L V10 78 TBA TBA
TBA TBA
TBA TBA
United States AO Racing Team[105] Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) Porsche 4.2 L Flat-6 80 United States P. J. Hyett[106] TBA
United States Gunnar Jeannette[106] TBA
United Kingdom Sebastian Priaulx[107] TBA
United Kingdom Harry Tincknell[107] TBA
United States Kelly-Moss with Riley[108] Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) Porsche 4.2 L Flat-6 91 France Julien Andlauer[109] TBA
Netherlands Kay van Berlo[109] TBA
New Zealand Jaxon Evans[109] TBA
United States Alan Metni[109] TBA
92 Netherlands Jeroen Bleekemolen[110] TBA
United States Nick Boulle[110] TBA
United States Andrew Davis[110] TBA
United States Alec Udell[110] TBA
United States Racers Edge Motorsports with WTR[111][112] Acura NSX GT3 Evo22 Acura 3.5 L Turbo V6 93 Australia Ryan Briscoe[113] TBA
Costa Rica Daniel Formal[113] TBA
United States Ashton Harrison[113] TBA
Canada Kyle Marcelli[113] TBA
United States Turner Motorsport[76] BMW M4 GT3 BMW S58B30T0 3.0 L Turbo I6 96 United States Michael Dinan[77] TBA
United States Robby Foley[77] TBA
United States Patrick Gallagher[78] TBA
Germany Jens Klingmann[78] TBA

Notes

  1. ^ The LMP2 and LMP3 class will only score points towards the Michelin Endurance Cup.

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