Speaking during testing at Daytona, where the 2015 Le Mans 24 Hours and Petit Le Mans winner was driving the new 963 ahead of his fulltime IMSA GTP campaign, Tandy believes the coming seasons of unification across both prototype and GT classes can be huge for sportscar racing on both sides of the Atlantic.
Porsche and Cadillac will enter LMDh prototypes in WEC as well as IMSA in 2023, while WEC adopts GT3 regulations in 2024 that mirrors the machinery run in IMSA’s GTD ranks. The ultimate aim is for the world’s biggest sportscar manufacturers to have the ability to race cars – on a factory-run or customer-team basis – on both sides of the Atlantic.
