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Porsche Penske, Boulle, Fidani and Heavy GTP Presence Across 62-Car Field
March 3, 2025
By Tony DiZinno IMSA Wire Service
Entry List
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – The crossover of IMSA entries into the 24 Hours of Le Mans continues with the 2025 edition of the June endurance classic, following today’s entry list release.
Three IMSA entrants received automatic invitations for their efforts in the 2024 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season: Porsche Penske Motorsport, Nick Boulle and Orey Fidani.
Porsche Penske claimed its spot by capturing the 2024 Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) class championship. Meanwhile Boulle and Fidani were the top-scoring Bronze-rated drivers in Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2) and Grand Touring Daytona (GTD), respectively, and secured the Jim Trueman Award and Bob Akin Award for their efforts. IMSA recognizes those entries with a chance to race at the Circuit de la Sarthe in June.
Felipe Nasr and Nick Tandy are the first named drivers for the No. 4 Porsche 963, which joins the team’s FIA World Endurance Championship-entered Nos. 5 and 6 cars.
Boulle takes up his Trueman spot with Inter Europol Competition in LMP2 Pro/Am, the same team he competed with en route to the 2024 LMP2 title. He’s racing in the IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup this season with United Autosports USA. He’ll share the No. 34 Inter Europol ORECA LMP2 07 with Jean-Baptiste Simmenauer and Luca Ghiotto.
Fidani and AWA (left) bring the Corvette Z06 GT3.R to Le Mans GT3 (LMGT3). The same Rolex 24-winning trio of Fidani, Matt Bell and Lars Kern will share the No. 13 Corvette.
Beyond those automatic invitations, a handful of other IMSA teams received at-large entries as part of the greater 62-car grid.
Action Express Racing, entered as the No. 311 Cadillac Whelen car, is set for its third trip to the 24 Hours of Le Mans in a row. Jack Aitken, Earl Bamber, Frederik Vesti and Felipe Drugovich shared the team’s No. 31 Cadillac V-Series.R at the Rolex 24 At Daytona, with Bamber in his full-time WEC slot in the Cadillac Hertz Team Jota entry leaving the other three to race the Whelen Cadillac at Le Mans.
Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing makes it four Cadillacs at Le Mans, with the eponymous team owner now set to bring his team over to the track for the first time with the No. 101 entry and drivers Jordan Taylor, Ricky Taylor and Filipe Albuquerque. Wayne Taylor competed in 13 24 Hours of Le Mans races as a driver over a span from 1987 through 2002, and secured a class win in a Doyle-Risi Ferrari 333 SP in 1998. His last three times at Le Mans came as part of the former Cadillac Northstar prototype program from 2000 to 2002.
A handful of additional teams beyond those mentioned above have raced in both IMSA and the FIA WEC and will race at Le Mans. These include Aston Martin THOR Team, Proton Competition, United Autosports, Af Corse, AO Racing (with TF Sport), Algarve Pro Racing, TDS Racing, TF Sport and Iron Dames.
There’s also a prevalence of drivers that competed in the Rolex 24 to start the IMSA season that will also compete in the WEC’s blue-riband event, the 24 Hours of Le Mans. At least 88 (45 Hypercar, 30 LMGT3, 13 LMP2) drivers who raced in the Rolex 24 are entered on the provisional Le Mans entry list, including roughly 30 projected full-season IMSA drivers.
It includes nearly the entire IMSA Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) full-season field, with Matt Campbell, Mathieu Jaminet, Felipe Nasr and Nick Tandy (Porsche Penske), Ricky Taylor, Jordan Taylor and Filipe Albuquerque (Cadillac WTR), Jack Aitken (Cadillac Whelen), Dries Vanthoor and Sheldon van der Linde (BMW M Team WRT), Ross Gunn and Roman De Angelis (Aston Martin THOR Team) all racing with their same manufacturer and in all cases except BMW, same team as in IMSA.
Despite not being entered, Acura Meyer Shank Racing is heavily represented as well with all four of its full-season GTP drivers. Colin Braun (Nielsen Racing), Tom Blomqvist (CLX Pure Racing), Renger van der Zande (United Autosports) and Nick Yelloly (Inter Europol Competition) are split across four different LMP2 cars.
There are also a handful of drivers entered thus far that won the Rolex 24 with a shot to win both in Daytona and Le Mans this same year. They include:
Felipe Nasr, Nick Tandy, Laurens Vanthoor
Paul Di Resta
Dennis Olsen
Orey Fidani, Matt Bell, Lars Kern
The Le Mans Test Day is Sunday, June 8, with practice and qualifying during the week leading up to the race start on Saturday, June 14 at 4 p.m. local time. After the race ends Sunday, June 15, those IMSA participants competing at Le Mans will travel back to the U.S. for the third round of the Michelin Endurance Cup season, the Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen, Sunday, June 22, at Watkins Glen International.
