Wayne Taylor Racing has revealed a want to mount a full-season assault on the World Endurance Championship in 2026.
Having already obtained an entry to participate in subsequent month’s Le Mans 24 Hours with a factory-backed Cadillac V-Sequence.R, crew proprietor Wayne Taylor needs to ramp up his squad’s involvement within the Hypercar class subsequent 12 months.
WTR, which was affiliated with Acura between 2021-24, presently fields a pair of manufacturing facility Cadillac LMDh prototypes in IMSA SportsCar Championship’s GTP class.
However the plan proposed by Taylor, which continues to be solely within the preliminary levels, would see WTR cut up these two entries throughout IMSA and WEC subsequent 12 months.
Cadillac already has a two-car presence within the WEC this 12 months through its new manufacturing facility associate Jota Sport. Guidelines forestall producers from coming into greater than two manufacturing facility vehicles in Hypercar and any buyer entry is entered underneath the FIA World Cup for Hypercar groups.
“So far as the longer term is anxious, I’d like to have an entry on either side of the pond, however I feel JOTA are very properly geared up over there. They have numerous expertise,” he mentioned.
“However I’ve had this thought over the past couple of days that possibly subsequent 12 months we’ll current Cadillac and GM and all our companions, ‘What about if we do one automobile in WEC subsequent 12 months and one automobile in America?’
“I do know which may not make my drivers pleased, however on the finish of the day we drive on our ardour, which is racing and to win.”
WTR’s return to the Basic Motors fold has proved to be robust, with a fifth-place end within the Daytona opener being one of the best consequence for the crew to date within the GTP class.
Nonetheless, Taylor mentioned an expanded presence within the WEC subsequent 12 months could be wise for the operation, as it could enhance its probabilities for the sequence’ blue riband occasion at Circuit de la Sarthe.
“It is actually simply one thing that I am flirting round in my head,” he mentioned. “I feel this most likely is coming as a shock to the 2 drivers there that most likely have not even heard this from me. And positively, I have never mentioned it with our companions.
“It simply appears to make sense to me. The WEC is a European tradition, which is totally different to an American tradition of going racing. And I feel a few of these little issues that you’d be taught as a crew in WEC will naturally enable you to if you get to Le Mans.
“Having mentioned that, we’re good associates with JOTA. I feel Ricky [Taylor] has joined them twice. We’ve got a detailed relationship there, although if you get to a race all people’s for themselves. However in that sense, we’re 4 manufacturing facility Cadillac applications. And hopefully, that is the way in which it will all work out.”
