Aside from the new GTP class, there's no shortage of intrigue at this year's IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship opener.
has five new Hurrian GT3 Evos entries, although NTE Sport found the tire wall with heavy contact at the Le Mans Chicane in the second practice. In preparation for next year’s new Lamborghini GTP entry, Formula 1/IndyCar veteran Romain Grosjean and Jordan Pepper are on board the lone GTP Pro Hurrican entry of Iron Lynx along with factory drivers Andrea Caldarelli and Mirko Bortolotti.
Arguably the Era team has the most experience and speed in defending over-all Rolex winner Oliver Jarvis, who co-drove the winning Acura last year, and IMSA/IndyCar veteran Ryan Dalziel. It’s a long tradition in endurance racing that the victory goes to the car spending the least amount of time on the pit road or in the garage. Will any team come up with a quick change of the transaxle and rear suspension/electric regeneration system in the rear if needed? In the early days of the all-conquering Audi R8, super quick exchanges of the gearbox and rear suspension by the team of Reinhold Joest spelled the difference at Le Mans.
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