Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA now official

Cadillac Racing announced today that its FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) Hypercar program will expand to a two-car factory program to be named Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA beginning with the start of the 2025 season.

Top: Cadillac #2 at Le Mans; Peter and bottom: Hertz Team JOTA #12 and #38 at Qatar.

πŸ“· Β© Luc Warnotte 2024. Top: Cadillac #2 at Le Mans; Peter and bottom: Hertz Team JOTA #12 and #38 at Qatar.

β€œCadillac is proud to be racing against the best in the world as part of the FIA World Endurance Championship, and that includes Hertz Team JOTA” said John Roth, vice president, Global Cadillac. "We are thrilled to welcome Hertz Team JOTA next year, bringing decades of racing and technical expertise together, to achieve continued success on the track and create new advocates for our brand around the globe."

Added Sam Hignett, director and founder, Hertz Team JOTA: β€œJOTA has always strived to become a manufacturer team, so now joining forces with Cadillac is the realization of this goal. Having competed against the Cadillac V-Series.R for the last two seasons, we have experienced how competitive it is and we are genuinely honored to be entrusted with fielding its cars from 2025 onward. We are in the privileged position to have enjoyed record-breaking success in the FIA World Endurance Championship, especially at Le Mans, and we are very much looking forward to continuing this success with Cadillac and Hertz.”

Drivers

Drivers of the #12 and #38 Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA V-Series.R racecars, which are powered by the purpose-built Cadillac 5.5L DOHC V8 engine, will be announced in the future.

Hertz Team JOTA

πŸ“· Β© Luc Warnotte at 24 Hours of Le Mans 2024. Left: #38 Hertz Team JOTA Porsche 963; right: #12 Hertz Team JOTA Porsche 963

England-based Hertz Team JOTA, owned in part by affiliates of Knighthead Capital Management, LLC, sponsored by global car rental company Hertz and seven-time champion and entrepreneur Tom Brady, entered the Hypercar class as a privateer in 2023 and currently runs two cars in the WEC with another manufacturer. It registered a historic first overall victory for a private team in Hypercar on May 11 at the TotalEnergies 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps and was runner-up in the season-opening Qatar Airways Qatar 1812 KM. Hertz Team JOTA leads the FIA World Cup for Hypercar private teams.

Cadillac Racing

24 Hours of Le Mans 2024. #2 Cadillac Racing Cadillac V-Series.R

πŸ“· Β© Luc Warnotte at 24 Hours of Le Mans 2024. #2 Cadillac Racing Cadillac V-Series.R

Highlighting Cadillac Racing’s inaugural WEC season was the third-place finish in the centenary 24 Hours of Le Mans. The #2 Cadillac V-Series.R started the 2023 season with top-five finishes at Sebring, PortimΓ£o and Spa-Francorchamps.

Cadillac Racing, which also runs a two-car Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) factory program in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, swept the 2023 GTP full-season and IMSA Michelin Endurance cup manufacturer, team and driver championships with Action Express Racing and the #31 Whelen Cadillac V-Series.R.

Overall, Cadillac Racing has earned nine Manufacturer Championships, five IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup Manufacturer Championships and 69 total sports car victories, including 30 in IMSA prototype competition since 2017. Source: Cadillac Racing

Cadillac in IMSA

πŸ“· Β© Luc Warnotte at 6 Hours of The Glen 2024. Left: #01 Cadillac Racing, Cadillac V-Series.R, Renger van der Zande, Sebastien Bourdais; right: #31 Whelen Cadillac Racing, Cadillac V-Series.R, Pipo Derani, Jack Aitken

Cadillac Racing will announce its 2025 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship plans at a later date.

Cadillac V-Series.R

The Cadillac V-Series.R marks the third-generation Cadillac prototype racecar and the brand’s first hybrid electrified race car. Codeveloped by Cadillac Design, Cadillac Racing and chassis constructor Dallara β€” the race car incorporates key Cadillac V-Series production car design elements, such as vertical lighting and floating blades..

Related news

First victory this season for Buemi, Hartley and Hirakawa.

πŸ“· Β© Courtesy of FIA WEC. Toyota and Porsche on podium at Interlagos.

Kamui Kobayashi with #7 GR010 HYBRID clinched pole

πŸ“· Β© Courtesy of Toyota Gazoo Racing. Toyota and Iron Dames on Pole for Sao Paulo round.

πŸ“· Β© Luc Warnotte at Le Mans Qualifying 2024. Ferrari 499P with upgrade package at Interlagos

Porsche leading all three Hypercars' championships

πŸ“· Β© Luc Warnotte at Qatar 1812. Porsche leading all three Hypercars' championships

Car Racing Reporter

Reporting endurance races from the 80th till now with 24 Hours of Le Mans, 1.000 km and 6 Hours races at Austin, Daytona, Imola, Le Mans, Monza, Nurburgring, Petit Le Mans, Portimao, Sebring, Silverstone, Spa-Francorchamps, The Glen, …

https://www.carracingreporter.com
Previous
Previous

NLS 4: the only GT3 pro surviving the storm wins

Next
Next

Intense battle ends with Porsche 1-2 at Road America