2026 IMSA SportsCar Championship
The 2026 IMSA SportsCar Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the 2026 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship) is a motor racing championship, which will be the 56th racing season sanctioned by the International Motor Sports Association and traces its lineage back to the 1971 IMSA GT Championship. It will also be the thirteenth season of the IMSA SportsCar Championship since the merger between the American Le Mans Series and the Rolex Sports Car Series in 2014, and the eleventh under the sponsorship of WeatherTech.
Classes
- Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) (LMDh and LMH)
- Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2)
- GT Daytona Pro (GTD Pro)
- GT Daytona (GTD)
Schedule
The provisional schedule was released on March 13, 2025, and features 11 rounds.[1][2] The calendar remains the same as the previous season, but the Battle on the Bricks will revert to a 2-hour, 40-minute race as it was in 2023 while the Motul SportsCar Grand Prix[3] event at Road America will be the first in IMSA sports car racing history to run a 6-hour endurance race at that venue.[1]
Entries
Grand Touring Prototype (GTP)
Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2)
In accordance with the 2017 LMP2 regulations, all cars in the LMP2 class use the Gibson GK428 V8 engine.[16]
GT Daytona (GTD Pro / GTD)
See also
References
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