The Porsche Penske Motorsports No. 7 during the 2025 Rolex 24 at Daytona (Photo: Tyson Gifford | The Podium Finish)
SEBRING, Fla. — IMSA’s second sanctioned test of the year takes place this weekend as 37 teams take to the circuit across all four WeatherTtech SportsCar Championship classes with 10 GTP cars, nine LMP2 entries, six representatives in GTD Pro and 12 GTD cars.
In IMSA’s top flight prototype class, three of the 12 cars that took to the track for the Rolex 24 at Daytona will not be present for the three days of testing.
Wayne-Taylor Racing will not bring their No. 40 Acura ARX-06 to the track following the shunt that Louis Deletraz took in the first quarter of the 24 hour endurance challenge, opting to put both their No. 10 and No. 40 full time driver outfits in the team’s No. 10 car.
The other notable omission is Lamborghini’s SC-63, following their cooling system failure in the early stages of the Daytona 24 which is just another hurdle in what’s been a rocky 2025 so far for the Italian manufacture, who came out after Daytona to state they’re searching for a customer to field the program for the future.
Aston Martin and The Heart of Racing brings the driver lineup of full season drivers Ross Gunn, Roman De Angelis as well as WEC driver Alex Riberas to shake down their brand new Valkyrie.
BMW M Team RLL, Meyer Shank Racing and JDC-Miller Motorsports also have mostly similar rosters to the ones that they showed up to Daytona with JDC bringing along the 2022 British GT4 champion Sennan Fielding to get some laps in prototype machinery.
The two most notable names come from the back-to-back Rolex winning Porsche Penske Motorsports outfit as Penske INDYCAR stars Josef Newgarden and Scott McLaughlin getting opportunities in the Nos. 7 and 6 respectively. While it is not new machinery for Newgarden, it will be McLaughlin’s first dance with the Porsche 963 after competing in the LMP2 and GTD Pro classes since the dawn of the GTP category in 2023.
LMP2 sees all but three in their class return from the Rolex 24, with the No. 04 Crowdstrike by APR, No. 2 United Autosports and No. 73 Pratt Miller Motorsports teams opting to skip the test.
Notable entries in this category will see Honda factory driver Kaku Ohta move from the GTP class where he ran the No. 93 Meyer Shank Acura to the No. 18 ERA Motorsports LMP2, while Johnny Edgar will run both Rexy and Spike for AO Racing.
In GTD pro, there is a slim six car contingent, with both Paul Miller Motorsports BMWs, Vasser Sullivan’s No. 14 Lexus, both Ford Multimatic Mustangs and AO Racing’s No. 77.
The notable name in the group is Ben Barker who returns from and injury that sidelined him in the offseason and saw his season debut pushed off in favor of NASCAR driver Austin Cindric in the No. 64 Mustang.
GTD will see 12 entries with the Rolex 24 winning AWA Corvette, both Triarsi Competizione Ferraris, The Heart of Racing with one of their Aston Martin Vantage GT3 EVO, the AMG trio of Korthoff Competition Motors, Winward Racing and Lone Star Racing all returning. Joining them will be DXDT Racing’s No. 36 Corvette, Wayne Taylor Racing and Forte Racing’s Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo2s, the No. 96 Turner BMW and Daytona pole winner’s Wright Motorsports.
All 12 teams will see teams that feature a majority of driver’s that contested last month’s Rolex 24 at Daytona.
The IMSA sanctioned test at Sebring raceway will take place February 11th-13th with GT getting their crack at the bumpy, unforgiving 17-turn circuit on the 11th, whilst prototypes will see the track to themselves on the final day of testing on the 13th. Testing on the 12th will see all 37 cars have access to the track across all four of IMSA’s classes.
