Austin, TX (15 August 2024)- The World Endurance Championship (WEC) return to the Circuit of the Americas will see three United States-based teams look to make the most out of the run on home soil as the globe-trotting championship takes to Texas for the sixth round of the 2024 championship this Labor Day weekend.<\/p>\n
One team that will have no trouble finding their way around will be the Chip Ganassi-run Cadillac Racing squad. Ganassi\u2019s eponymous team has competed at the 3.4-mile circuit in no less than five different championships since 2013, scoring wins and poles at the Austin-area facility.<\/p>\n
The team, which is based in Indianapolis but utilizes a European base for the WEC Cadillac Racing program, will have one entry in the Lone Star Le Mans as Cadillac Racing drivers Earl Bamber and Alex Lynn look to break through for a big result on Chip\u2019s home soil.<\/p>\n
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Ganassi\u2019s team, which has raced at COTA in Grand-Am, IMSA, Indycar, WEC, and NASCAR, has two IMSA pole positions (2014, 2016 Ryan Briscoe\/Richard Westbrook) with the IMSA Ford GT GTLM) and two IMSA victories (2014 Scott Pruett\/Memo Rojas), 2015 Pruett, Joey Hand), with the Ford\/Riley Daytona Prototype in IMSA competition.<\/p>\n
Bamber will arrive at COTA not only knowing his way around the track, but the way to victory lane as well. In five starts Bamber has earned two victories at COTA, with a GTLM win in 2016 IMSA WeatherTech competition as well as a WEC overall victory at the Texas track with his run to P1 for Porsche in 2017.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love the fact that we have such passionate fans in America, and I think they\u2019ll enjoy seeing the WEC there again,\u201d Bamber said of the Lone Star Le Mans return to Texas. \u201cThe fans make the American races.I think we\u2019ll get a big turnout and Austin is a fantastic city to go to as well. I think there is going to be a lot of \u2018America\u2019 at the event. Fans will see titanic battles. We\u2019ve got 17 full-time cars in the top class and the same amount in GT and there is action all over the place all the time. I think it\u2019s some of the best racing in the world right now, especially in the top class, and I think it will be a great spectacle for the fans.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Bamber\u2019s teammate Lynn also brings WEC experience to the Lone Star State, having raced with Aston Martin at the track in its 2020 visit.<\/p>\n
\u201cCOTA is a very technical track, very difficult to get right,\u201d said Lynn. \u201cThere is a lot of lap time to be found with drivers exploiting the curbs. We don\u2019t drive there a lot, so it\u2019s a tough track to nail. But it\u2019s a challenge we all enjoy. Sector 1 is by far my favorite. You\u2019ve got that huge hill to Turn 1, then the big downhill sweeping into what is really a recreation of Maggots and Becketts from Silverstone. It really is amazing behind the wheel, and to watch from grandstands and viewing banks. Austin in itself is such a cool place too. Racing in the U.S. is cool, but that city just adds to it. The people there are so welcoming and for that reason I don\u2019t know anyone who doesn\u2019t love going there.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 2024 Lone Star Le Mans will open with practice sessions on Friday, August 30, with qualifying and the exciting Hyperpole sessions slated for Saturday, August 31. Sunday\u2019s six-hour Lone Star Le Mans will go green at 1:00 PM local time. The event will also feature the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Series as well as the Mustang Challenge series, as well as (two concerts).<\/p>\n