Only one race into the 2024 season – and on the eve of the Sebring 12 Hours – IMSA President John Doonan shared subsequent 12 months’s slate of occasions, which additionally included Pilot Problem.
Subsequent 12 months will as soon as once more function an 11-race season, together with 5 endurance rounds that make up the Endurance Cup.
“On behalf of my teammates at IMSA, I’m proud to have the ability to announce our schedule for 2025 at such an early date,” stated Doonan.
“This was made potential by means of an amazing spirit of collaboration with our promoter companions, and we’re grateful to them for enabling us to make our 2025 plans identified immediately. Placing subsequent 12 months’s schedule into everyone’s fingers so quickly permits followers, rivals and companions to get effectively forward in planning for a tremendous 2025 season, even with a lot of our 2024 season nonetheless to come back.”
Per regular, the season will start with the season-opening Daytona 24 Hours on Jan. 23-26, which will probably be preceded by the Roar Earlier than the 24 the weekend earlier than, Jan. 17-19.
A trek to Sebring Worldwide Raceway for the 12-hour enduro is about for March 12-15. The Daytona and Sebring occasions each will embrace all 4 SportsCar Championship courses: Grand Touring Prototype (GTP), Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2), Grand Touring Daytona Professional (GTD Professional) and Grand Touring Daytona (GTD).
GTP and GTD will then head west to participate in a 100-minute battle on the Streets of Lengthy Seashore April 11-12. Then, Could 9/11, GTD Professional will be a part of the GTP and GTD for a two-hour, 40-minute contest at Laguna Seca.
From there, it’s again to the streets of downtown Detroit and one other 100-minute battle as a part of the Detroit Grand Prix for the GTP and GTD Professional courses on Could 30-31.
A six-hour endurance bout at Watkins Glen looms in its typical late June slot, with all courses collaborating June 26-29.
LMP2, GTD Professional and GTD will probably be showcased at Mosport July 11-13 within the sequence’ lone journey to Canada.
All 4 courses return to motion on the weekend of July 31-Aug. 3 for the annual go to to Street America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.
Virginia Worldwide Raceway would be the lone GT-only race, with the GTD Professional and GTD courses getting into the highlight on Aug. 22-24.
Indianapolis Motor Speedway continues to host the penultimate rounds of each the SportsCar Championship and Endurance Cup with the Battle on the Bricks six-hour race scheduled for the weekend of Sept. 19-21.
The finale will as soon as once more happen at Street Atlanta, which will probably be Oct. 8-11 for the 10-hour traditional Petit Le Mans.
IMSA 2025 race schedule
Photograph by: IMSA
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