2025 IMSA VP Racing SportsCar Challenge

The 2025 IMSA VP Racing SportsCar Challenge season will be the third season of the IMSA VP Racing SportsCar Challenge after being established in 2023 as a replacement for the IMSA Prototype Challenge. The season will begin on January 20 at Daytona International Speedway and will conclude on October 19 at Road Atlanta. After IMSA's removal of the LMP3 class from the 2024 IMSA SportsCar Championship, this series is now the highest tier of racing for LMP3s in the United States. On August 29, 2024, it was announced that GT3 cars (GTDX) will be added alongside the existing two classes.^[1]^[2]

Classes

Calendar

The provisional schedule was released on August 29, 2024, at IMSA's annual State of the Sport Address, featuring twelve rounds split across six race weekends. All six events had confirmed dates.^[3]


Round	Circuit	Date
1	Daytona International Speedway, Daytona Beach, Florida	January 17–19
2	Circuit of the Americas, Austin, Texas	February 28 – March 1
3	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Lexington, Ohio	June 6–8
4	Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, Bowmanville, Ontario	July 11–13
5	Virginia International Raceway, Alton, Virginia	August 22–24
6	Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, Braselton, Georgia, Georgia	October 8–11

Entry List

All cars in the LMP3 class use the Nissan VK56DE 5.6L V8 engine.

LMP3

Team	Car	No.	Drivers	Rounds
Gebhardt Motorsport^[4]	Duqueine D-08	30	Valentino Catalano^[4]	1
Gebhardt Motorsport^[4]	Duqueine D-08	31	Markus Pommer^[4]	1
RAFA Racing Team^[5]	Ligier JS P320	36	Matthew Dicken^[6]	1
MLT Motorsports^[4]	Ligier JS P320	54	Jonathan Woolridge^[6]	1
Mishumotors^[4]	Ligier JS P320	70	Mirco Schultis^[4]	1
Forte Racing^[4]	Ligier JS P320	77	Brian Thienes^[4]	1
Forte Racing^[4]	Ligier JS P320	86	Jon Hirshberg^[4]	1
Toney Driver Development^[4]	Ligier JS P320	80	Brady Golan^[6]	1

GTDX

Team	Car	Engine	No.	Drivers	Rounds
Turner Motorsport^[7]	BMW M4 GT3	BMW S58B30T0 3.0 L Turbo I6	6	Jake Walker^[7]	1
Turner Motorsport^[7]	BMW M4 GT3	BMW S58B30T0 3.0 L Turbo I6	95	Vin Barletta^[7]	1
Conquest Racing^[8]	Ferrari 296 GT3	Ferrari F163CE 3.0 L Turbo V6	20	Dave Musial Jr.^[8]	1
Conquest Racing^[8]	Ferrari 296 GT3	Ferrari F163CE 3.0 L Turbo V6	99	Dave Musial^[8]	1
Wright Motorsports^[4]	Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)	Porsche M97/80 4.2 L Flat-6	24	Adam Adelson^[4]	1
GMG Racing^[5]	Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)	Porsche M97/80 4.2 L Flat-6	32	Kyle Washington^[9]	1
ST Racing^[10]	BMW M4 GT3	BMW S58B30T0 3.0 L Turbo I6	38	Samantha Tan^[10]	1
AF Corse^[4]	Ferrari 296 GT3	Ferrari F163CE 3.0 L Turbo V6	50	Matias Perez Companc^[4]	1
AF Corse^[4]	Ferrari 296 GT3	Ferrari F163CE 3.0 L Turbo V6	66	AJ Muss^[4]	1

GSX

Team	Car	Engine	No.	Drivers	Rounds
Automatic Racing AMR	Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT4	Aston Martin M177 4.0 L Twin-Turbo V8	09	Matthew Siegal^[6]	1
Czabok-Simpson Motorsport^[4]	Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS Clubsport	Porsche MDG 4.0 L Flat-6	2	Jackson Lee^[4]	1
FastMD Racing with Remstar Racing^[4]	Audi R8 LMS GT4 Evo	Audi DAR 5.2 L V10	3	Farhan Siddiqi^[6]	1
Di Benedetto Racing^[4]	Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS Clubsport	Porsche MDG 4.0 L Flat-6	4	Justin Di Benedetto^[4]	1
KMW Motorsports with TMR Engineering^[4]	Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS Clubsport	Porsche MDG 4.0 L Flat-6	5	Angus Rogers^[4]	1
RAFA Racing Team^[11]	Toyota GR Supra GT4 Evo2	BMW B58B30 3.0 L Twin-Turbo I6	8	Kiko Porto^[4]	1
RAFA Racing Team^[11]	Toyota GR Supra GT4 Evo2	BMW B58B30 3.0 L Twin-Turbo I6	68	Ian Porter^[4]	1
Carrus Callas Raceteam^[4]	BMW M4 GT4 Evo (G82)	BMW S58B30T0 3.0 L Twin Turbo I6	10	Chris Walsh^[4]	1
Swish Motorsports^[4]	BMW M4 GT4 (G82)	BMW S58B30T0 3.0 L Twin Turbo I6	12	Patrick Wilmot^[6]	1
Auto Technic Racing^[4]	BMW M4 GT4 Evo (G82)	BMW S58B30T0 3.0 L Twin Turbo I6	19	Roland Krainz^[4]	1
Stephen Cameron Racing^[4]	Ford Mustang GT4 (2024)	Ford 5.0 L Coyote V8	43	Gregory Liefooghe^[4]	1
Kingpin Racing^[12]	Toyota GR Supra GT4 Evo2	BMW B58B30 3.0 L Twin-Turbo I6	53	Rob Walker^[12]	1
Rebel Rock Racing^[4]	Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT4 Evo	Aston Martin M177 4.0 L Turbo V8	72	Frank DePew^[6]	1
BSI Racing^[4]	Toyota GR Supra GT4 Evo2	BMW B58B30 3.0 L Twin-Turbo I6	76	Steven Clemons^[4]	1
89x^[4]	Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT4	Aston Martin M177 4.0 L Turbo V8	89	Christopher Tasca^[6]	1
Turner Motorsport^[7]	BMW M4 GT4 (G82)	BMW S58B30T0 3.0 L Twin Turbo I6	96	Matt Dalton^[7]	1

Race Results

Bold indicates overall winner.


Round		Circuit	P3 Winner	GTDX Winner	GSX Winner
1	R1	Daytona	#30 Gebhardt Intralogistics Motorsports	#24 Wright Motorsports	#8 RAFA Racing
	R1		Valentino Catalano	Adam Adelson	Kiko Porto
	R2		#30 Gebhardt Intralogistics Motorsports	#24 Wright Motorsports	#8 RAFA Racing
	R2		Valentino Catalano	Adam Adelson	Kiko Porto
2	R1	COTA
	R1
	R2
	R2
3	R1	Mid-Ohio
	R1
	R2
	R2
4	R1	Mosport
	R1
	R2
	R2
5	R1	Virginia
	R1
	R2
	R2
6	R1	Road Atlanta
	R1
	R2
	R2

References

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