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The 2023 IMSA SportsCar Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the 2023 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship) is a planned motor racing championship, set to be the 53rd racing season sanctioned by the International Motor Sports Association, which traces its lineage back to the 1971 IMSA GT Championship. It will also be the tenth season of the IMSA SportsCar Championship since the merger between the American Le Mans Series and the Rolex Sports Car Series in 2014, and the eighth under the sponsorship of WeatherTech. The 2023 season marks an overhaul season for the championship, with a change in class structure and a new race on the season calendar at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Classes

Grand Touring Prototype class logo
The Porsche 963 (pictured at the 2022 Goodwood Festival of Speed) is one of the prototype race cars that are allowed to compete under IMSA’s new GTP class. It complies with the LMDh regulations.

At the end of the 2022 season, IMSA retired the Daytona Prototype International (DPi) class, which was the premier racing class in the WeatherTech Championship from 2017 until 2022, spanning six seasons. IMSA replaced it with a new class called GTP, named in tribute to the GTP class from the IMSA GT Championship in the 1980s.

GTP is the new flagship class of the championship and consists of two sister technical regulations: LMDh (Le Mans Daytona hybrid), and LMH (Le Mans Hypercar). LMDh allows choosing from a base chassis, of which there are four choices, from Dallara, Ligier, Multimatic, and Oreca, as well as a specification hybrid system on all cars, with freedom on aerodynamics, bodywork, and engine configuration. The LMH regulation allows bespoke hybrid designs and offers more mechanical design freedom in exchange for elevated development costs. As with the DPi class, GTP is regulated by a Balance of Performance (BoP) system to keep the performance range of each of the cars close together and regulate spending.

The GTP class consists of the same framework as the Hypercar class of the FIA World Endurance Championship. A collaborative alliance between IMSA and the French racing organizers, ACO, resulted in the convergence of the two organizers' top-class regulations.[1]

After initially announcing discontinuing the sub-championship entirely on August 5, IMSA later declared on September 1 that they would continue the WeatherTech Sprint Cup, a championship comprising only sprint rounds for the GT Daytona (GTD) class. The only difference was that there would be no Sprint Cup-only rounds for 2023, to combat situations such as the record-low six-car GTD entry at the 2022 Chevrolet Grand Prix.[2][3]

Schedule

Indianapolis Motor Speedway is set to return to the championship's schedule for the first time since 2014.

The provisional schedule was released on August 5, 2022, and features 11 rounds.[4][5]

   Race is part of the Michelin Endurance Cup
   Race is part of the WeatherTech Sprint Cup
Rnd. Race Length Classes Circuit Location Date
QR Roar Before the 24 1 hour, 40 minutes All[N 1] Daytona International Speedway Daytona Beach, Florida January 22
1 Rolex 24 at Daytona 24 hours All[N 2] January 28–29
2 Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Presented by Advance Auto Parts 12 hours All Sebring International Raceway Sebring, Florida March 18
3 Grand Prix of Long Beach 1 hour, 40 minutes GTP, GTD Pro, GTD Long Beach Street Circuit Long Beach, California April 15
4 TBA 2 hours, 40 minutes GTP, LMP2, GTD Pro, GTD WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca Monterey, California May 14
5 Sahlen's Six Hours of The Glen 6 hours All Watkins Glen International Watkins Glen, New York June 25
6 TBA 2 hours, 40 minutes GTP, LMP3, GTD Pro, GTD Canadian Tire Motorsport Park Bowmanville, Ontario July 9
7 Northeast Grand Prix 2 hours, 40 minutes GTD Pro, GTD Lime Rock Park Lakeville, Connecticut July 22
8 TBA 2 hours, 40 minutes All Road America Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin August 6
9 Michelin GT Challenge at VIR 2 hours, 40 minutes GTD Pro, GTD Virginia International Raceway Alton, Virginia August 27
10 IMSA Battle on the Bricks 2 hours, 40 minutes All Indianapolis Motor Speedway Speedway, Indiana September 17
11 Motul Petit Le Mans 10 hours All Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta Braselton, Georgia October 14

[6]

  • Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course was dropped from the calendar. The track had been a part of the championship since 2018. The event was replaced with a sprint race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, marking IMS' return to the championship for the first time since the series' inaugural season in 2014.[4]
  • The Raceway on Belle Isle was also dropped from the calendar as a result of the Belle Isle circuit being replaced in favor of the Detroit street circuit. The track was a part of the championship for every season of the IMSA SportsCar Championship since its inception in 2014, except for 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[4]

Rule Changes

  • In response to the 2022 Six Hours of The Glen which saw several cars penalized for drive-time infringements as a result of a red flag for inclement weather, IMSA will now reduce the required drive time by a ratio of 2:1 corresponding to a percentage of the race time lost, rather than 1:1 as had been the rule previously.[7] For example: If a race is shortened by 10 percent due to a red flag condition, each driver's minimum required drive time would be reduced by 20 percent.
  • The minimum sprint race drive time for bronze-categorized drivers in the GTD Class has been reduced from 45 minutes to 35 minutes.[8]
  • As an incentive for bronze-categorized drivers to participate in qualifying in the GTD Class, teams whose qualifying time is set by a bronze-categorized driver will be permitted to change tires for the start of the race, while teams utilizing drivers of any other categorization must start the race on the tires used in qualifying.[8]
  • For drivers competing in more than one car during a race, the cumulative maximum drive time no longer applies to races under 6 hours in length.[7]

Entries

Grand Touring Prototype (GTP)

Team Chassis Engine No. Drivers Rounds
United States Porsche Penske Motorsport[9][10] Porsche 963 Porsche 4.6 L V8 twin-turbocharged DOHC 6 TBA TBA
TBA TBA
TBA TBA
7 TBA TBA
TBA TBA
TBA TBA
United States Wayne Taylor Racing[11] Acura ARX-06 Acura AR24e 2.4 L twin-turbocharged V6[12] 10 Portugal Filipe Albuquerque[13] TBA
Switzerland Louis Delétraz[14] TBA
New Zealand Brendon Hartley[14] TBA
United States Ricky Taylor[15] TBA
United States BMW M Team RLL[16][17] BMW M Hybrid V8 BMW P66/3 4.0 L V8 twin-turbocharged DOHC 24 United States Colton Herta[18] ‡ TBA
Brazil Augusto Farfus[18][19] TBA
South Africa Sheldon van der Linde[20] ‡ TBA
United Kingdom Nick Yelloly[18] TBA
25 Austria Philipp Eng[18] TBA
United States Connor De Phillippi[18] TBA
Germany Marco Wittmann[20] ‡ TBA
TBA TBA
United States Meyer Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian[11] Acura ARX-06 Acura AR24e 2.4 L twin-turbocharged V6[12] 60 United Kingdom Tom Blomqvist[21][22] TBA
Brazil Hélio Castroneves[23] TBA
France Simon Pagenaud[23] TBA
TBA TBA
United States Action Express Racing[24] Cadillac V-LMDh[25] Cadillac 5.5 L V8 (2022)[26] TBA Brazil Pipo Derani[27] TBA
United Kingdom Alexander Sims[27] TBA
TBA TBA
United States Cadillac Racing[24] Cadillac V-LMDh[25] Cadillac 5.5 L V8 (2022)[26] TBA France Sébastien Bourdais[27] TBA
Netherlands Renger van der Zande[27] TBA
TBA TBA
TBA New Zealand Earl Bamber[28] TBA
United Kingdom Alex Lynn[28] TBA
United Kingdom Richard Westbrook[28] TBA
United States JDC-Miller Motorsports[29] Porsche 963 Porsche 4.6 L V8 twin-turbocharged DOHC TBA TBA TBA
TBA TBA
TBA TBA

‡ : Herta (Daytona), van der Linde (Daytona/Sebring), and Wittmann (Daytona/Sebring) have been confirmed to compete for BMW Team RLL, but finalized driving lineups have not been announced.

Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2)

In accordance with the 2017 LMP2 regulations, all cars in the LMP2 class use the Gibson GK428 V8 engine.[30]

Team Chassis No. Drivers Rounds
France TDS Racing[31][32] Oreca 07 TBA France François Heriau[33] TBA
TBA TBA
TBA TBA
TBA United States Steven Thomas[32] TBA
TBA TBA
TBA TBA

GT Daytona (GTD Pro / GTD)

Team Chassis Engine No. Drivers Rounds
GTD Pro
United States Corvette Racing[34] Chevrolet Corvette C8.R GTD Chevrolet 5.5 L V8 3 Spain Antonio García[34] TBA
United States Tommy Milner[34] TBA
United States Jordan Taylor[34] TBA
Canada Pfaff Motorsports[35] Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) Porsche 4.2 L Flat-6[36] TBA TBA TBA
TBA TBA
TBA TBA
United States Risi Competizione[37] Ferrari 296 GT3 Ferrari 3.0 L twin-turbocharged V6 TBA TBA TBA
TBA TBA
TBA TBA
GTD
United States AO Racing Team[38] Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) Porsche 4.2 L Flat-6 TBA United States P.J. Hyett[38] TBA
United States Gunnar Jeannette[38] TBA
TBA TBA
Italy Cetilar Racing[39] Ferrari 296 GT3 Ferrari 3.0 L twin-turbocharged V6 TBA TBA TBA
TBA TBA
TBA TBA
United States Kelly-Moss Road and Race[40] Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) Porsche 4.2 L Flat-6 TBA TBA TBA
TBA TBA
TBA TBA
TBA TBA TBA
TBA TBA
TBA TBA
United States Turner Motorsport[41] BMW M4 GT3 BMW S58B30T0 3.0 L Twin Turbo I6 TBA United States Robby Foley[41] TBA
TBA TBA
TBA TBA
TBA TBA TBA
TBA TBA
TBA TBA
United States VOLT Racing with Wright Motorsports[42] TBA TBA TBA United States Alan Brynjolfsson[42] TBA
United States Trent Hindman[42] TBA
TBA TBA

Notes

  1. ^ Race awards qualifying points and sets the starting lineup for the Rolex 24 at Daytona only.
  2. ^ The LMP2 and LMP3 class will only score points towards the Michelin Endurance Cup.

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External links

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