Cadillac and Chip Ganassi Racing will end their sportscar racing partnership at the end of the 2024 World Endurance Championship and IMSA SportsCar Championship campaigns.
Confirmation of the split after what will be four seasons has been provided by Ganassi managing director Mike Hull, who told Motorsport.com that “we are ending this chapter” of a long relationship with Cadillac parent company General Motors that has straddled IndyCars, NASCAR and Extreme E as well as sportscars. He said that it was coming to an end in a “very positive way”, adding that he doubted that it would be “the last time we work with GM on a racing project”.
The decision, Hull stated, will have “no impact” on its 2024 programmes with Earl Bamber and Alex Lynn in WEC and Sebastien Bourdais and Renger van der Zande in IMSA. Ganassi is already working to remain in sportscar racing, in which it has a long history dating back to 2004. It won the Daytona 24 Hours six times during the Grand-Am’s Daytona Prototype era and ran the Ford GT programme in IMSA in 2016-19, which included a GTE Pro class victory at Le Mans.