
Herta was partnered with IndyCar rival and former Indy Lights team-mate Pato O’Ward, new IndyCar team-mate Devlin DeFrancesco and Eric Lux in the #81 DragonSpeed ORECA-Gibson.
Although this was his fourth time in the IMSA SportsCar Championship classic – and he won the GTLM class on his debut with BMW in 2019 – it was his first IMSA outing in a sports prototype.