Muller to make Porsche debut at this weekend’s Sebring 12 Hours in IMSA

New Porsche manufacturing facility driver Nico Muller will make his sportscar debut with the German marque at this weekend’s Sebring 12 Hours spherical of the IMSA SportsCar Championship. 

Muller, who has been positioned by Porsche on the Andretti Components E staff for the 2024/25 season, will race the client 963 LMDh fielded by the JDC-Miller MotorSports squad alongside full-season drivers Gianmaria Bruni and Tijmen van der Helm. 

The drive within the second spherical of IMSA 2025 seems to place Muller in competition for the vacant seat alongside Nick Tandy and Felipe Nasr within the third manufacturing facility Porsche Penske Motorsport 963 entered for the Le Mans 24 Hours World Endurance Championship spherical. 

The 33-year-old follows fellow manufacturing facility Porsche driver Pascal Wehrlein in racing for JDC-Miller this yr: the 2023/24 FE world champion contested the season-opening Daytona 24 Hours.

Porsche has one emptiness for its Le Mans squad as a result of it has downsized its LMDh squad from 10 to eight drivers for 2025. 

Muller, who moved to Porsche on the finish of final yr from Peugeot’s WEC squad, described his Sebring look as a “last-minute mission”. 

“I can’t wait to show my first laps within the Porsche 963 and compete in my first prestigious Sebring 12 Hours,” mentioned the Swiss, who raced for Peugeot within the WEC fixture on the IMSA invoice on the Florida circuit in 2023 and with the Vector Sport LMP2 staff in 2022. 

“I beloved following the IMSA motion throughout the 12 Hours – it’s often called the hardest race on the IMSA calendar.”

He expressed confidence that he’ll shortly become familiar with Porsche’s LMDh with the assist of JDC-Miller, Bruni and van der Helm.

“That sturdy basis will pace up my 963 studying course of,” defined Muller, whose solely earlier IMSA begin got here within the 2022 Daytona 24 Hours with the Excessive Class Racing LMP2 squad.

JDC-Miller boss John Church mentioned: “Including Nico to our already sturdy driver line-up with Tijmen and Gimmi builds on the arrogance now we have coming off our very sturdy run at Daytona [to sixth place].

“Due to our mates at Porsche for all their efforts in making it occur.”