Wayne Taylor Racing with two Acura ARX-06s in 2024

Acura Motorsports has confirmed that Wayne Taylor Racing Andretti will field the second LMDh Acura ARX-06 in the GTP class in IMSA from 2024, starting with the traditional 24 Hours of Daytona in January.

Acura Motorsports and its performance arm, Honda Performance Development (HPD), have launched the Acura ARX-06 GTP for 2023, alongside the efforts of chassis builder ORECA and a pair of IMSA championship-winning teams: Wayne Taylor Racing and Andretti Autosport and Meyer Shank Racing.

Le Wayne Taylor Racing aura 2 Acura in 2024

Acura has a good record in IMSA in the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship that it joined in 2018, with 3 titles with the old DPi chassis, which are 2019, 2020 and 2022, the year before adopting LMDh. And for the inaugural round of 2023, still at the 24 Hours of Daytona, Acuras did it twice (Meyer Shank Racing ahead of Wayne Taylor Racing).

“The strength of Wayne Taylor Racing and Andretti Autosport, throughout their organization, has impressed us since the start of our partnership in 2021,” said HPD President and Technical Director David Salters. “This has continued throughout the development of the new Acura ARX-06 GTP hybrid. It’s a very complex car, but everyone at WTRAndretti has risen to the challenge. Our partnership with them has been very rewarding and we look forward to seeing them. Keep up the hard work. as the Acura factory and the addition of a second IMSA entry in 2024.

The list of drivers added to this second Wayne Taylor Racing car will be announced later in the year. WTRAndretti also plans to continue competing with Harrison Contracting Company No. 93 Acura NSX GT3 Evo22 in the GTD class in 2024.

It remains to be seen if this second Acura ARX-06 car for Wayne Taylor Racing does not mean behind the scenes the end of the partnership with Meyer Shank Racing, whose partnership has been tarnished. since the fraud was revealed at the final 24 Hours of Daytona.