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No. 91 Trackhouse by TF Sport Corvette Z06 GT3.R

Ben Keating/Scott McLaughlin/Shane van Gisbergen/Connor Zilisch
Justin Marks’ Trackhouse Racing, in partnership with sports car specialists TF Sport, may be a pre-race clubhouse leader for splashy guest entries. Keating only has one Rolex win to his name (2015, GTD) but his extensive sports car experience and championships have solidified his status as one of the pre-eminent Bronze-rated drivers racing globally.
Past Supercars title rivals McLaughlin and van Gisbergen have left their native land behind, learned America, and won races in their new full-time series of IndyCar and NASCAR (both Cup and Xfinity Series).

Then there’s Zilisch, who like van Gisbergen is part of the Red Bull family of athletes, and at age 18 assembled a banner 2024 campaign that included Rolex 24 and Sebring 12 wins with Era Motorsport in LMP2, a win in his NASCAR Xfinity debut at Watkins Glen, and other triumphs in ARCA and Whelen Mazda MX-5 Cup presented by Michelin. This is one of THE cars to watch.
No. 3 Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports Corvette Z06 GT3.R

Antonio Garcia/Alexander Sims/Daniel Juncadella

The Corvette brand has four GT class victories at the Rolex 24, including an overall triumph in 2001. In the team’s No. 3 Corvette Z06 GT3.R, it has another contender with the same trio of Garcia, Sims and Juncadella.
Garcia and Sims partnered to give the new car its first IMSA win at the Chevrolet Grand Prix at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park. Garcia (three) and Juncadella (one) have Rolex 24 wins to their name, while Sims is yet to secure his first Rolex winner’s timepiece.

No. 4 Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports Corvette Z06 GT3.R

Tommy Milner/Nicky Catsburg/Nico Varrone
It’s hard to believe it’s nearly a decade since Milner’s lone Rolex 24 win, in an epic teammate battle against Garcia in the No. 3 car in 2016. Alas, nine years have passed since that date. But Milner racked up wins with the new Corvette Z06 GT3.R in additional GT3 competition in 2024, even as he and Catsburg’s best result in IMSA competition was second at CTMP in that Corvette 1-2.
Third driver Varrone is new to Corvette Racing’s IMSA program, but not new to winning with Corvette Racing: he, Catsburg and Ben Keating shared the last GTE AM class win at the 2023 24 Hours of Le Mans in the Corvette C8.R.

No. 36 DXDT Racing Corvette Z06 GT3.R

Salih Yoluc/Alec Udell/Charlie Eastwood/Pipo Derani
DXDT Racing enters IMSA with high potential and storylines peppered across its striking, blue-to-green gradient colored Corvette Z06 GT3.R. Having swept through the SRO World Challenge America season last year with eight straight wins at one point, including the first global win for the new Corvette Z06 GT3.R, DXDT shifts to IMSA for 2025 with many IMSA components already embedded in the program.

Two-time IMSA champion Bryan Sellers steps away from driving and serves as program manager, working alongside DXDT team owner David Askew and general manager Erin Gahagan (who also has extensive IMSA managerial experience).

Among the drivers, Yoluc and Eastwood have raced together before in other global programs, including a 2020 GTE Am class win at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Udell was part of that SRO sweep of wins last year and has had some IMSA success, including two GTD podiums in 2023.

Derani, a two-time IMSA prototype champion (2021, 2023) with Cadillac Whelen and Action Express Racing, appears set to spend most of his year doing development work with Genesis’ new LMDh prototype while making a GTD cameo at the Rolex 24. Robert Wickens will race with this team starting at Long Beach, with both his debut and that of his electronic hand-brake control system from Bosch one to watch later this year.

No. 13 AWA Corvette Z06 GT3.R

Orey Fidani/Matt Bell (UK)/Lars Kern/Marvin Kirchhoefer
An intended two-car program for AWA dropped to the single, No. 13 Corvette Z06 GT3.R after just two races, but that didn’t halt the momentum or progress this lineup achieved in its first year with the new customer car. Fidani and Bell posted four top-six finishes in the deep GTD class, with Fidani’s consistency clinching the Bob Akin Award and a trip to the 24 Hours of Le Mans this year.
As in past years, Kern completes the Michelin Endurance Cup lineup, while Kirchhoefer replaces Alex Lynn as the Rolex 24 fourth.