Chip Ganassi Racing (CGR) will pull the plug on its partnership with Cadillac Racing upon conclusion of the 2024 racing season, according to a report from Racer.com.
Currently, CGR fields Cadillac V-Series.R race cars in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, as well as in the FIA World Endurance Championship. The partnership seems to be a rollercoaster for CGR, sometimes proving successful and other times leaving much to be desired. In fact, last weekend at Sebring, the No. 01 Cadillac Racing machine finished second after trading paint with an Acura right down to the line, despite ailing electrical issues.
However, CGR said it’s not interested in continuing to field Cadillac race cars beyond the 2024 racing season, although it’s not clear why the team is splitting up with the luxury marque’s motorsports arm.
“Chip Ganassi Racing has a fantastic history with General Motors,” CGR managing director Mike Hull said. “Considering everything that we’ve done with them, there has been a lot of partnership definition to what we’ve accomplished. NASCAR, Extreme E, IndyCar, DPi and LMDh have all been successful programs and we’ve shared equally in learning from that success to get better together. We would never close the book on General Motors in terms of the future. We just know that this chapter is ending.”
In the wake of CGR’s departure, GM hasn’t spelled out any plans for IMSA competition in 2025, although The General indicated that it fully intends to continue its efforts in the sports car division.
“Our GM divisions have had successful partnerships with Chip Ganassi Racing across multiple series – NASCAR, IndyCar, Extreme E, IMSA and FIA WEC – over the years,” said Jim Campbell, GM U.S. Vice President, Performance & Motorsports. “Together we have won numerous races and have had great success. We remain committed to winning races and championships together in IMSA and FIA WEC this year.”
He added, “Our sports car plans for 2025 will be announced at a later date.”
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Were they booted or did they pull the plug?
I hope this opens up the door to a 4 car effort, 2 in IMSA with Action express, and hopefully a European team with 2 cars.
Perhaps Pratt & Miller might take on two Cadillacs for Europe..
We shall see
Chip goes for money and word is he was offered more money.
The real thing here is who is Cadillac working with in F1? Andretti. Who is not going to be able to field an F1 car for a bit. andretti.
Could they split from Taylor and use IMSA to build the F1 team and move up from there?
Andretti is also looking to NASCAR. How about a Chevy team for Marco?
Considering Andretti just partnered with Taylor in IMSA I doubt they would split so quickly. Perhaps they will follow the same logic they executed with Corvette and just supply customer cars with the intent ((hope?) that more parties will field more cars worldwide and promote the brand better? It would be interesting to see Action Express add another car as they seam to have the right formula. 🤷♂️
I’ve always wondered how the details work on these teams that compete in different series with different and competing manufacturers. Ganassi has Honda Indy cars. Andretti is also but has run chevy’s, is working with Cadillac to get into F1, and Marco has been running Hendrick sponsored chevy’s in NASCAR. Jordan Taylor has the GM ties now and there is history with the family and Cadillac. Could we see the two teams swap manufacturers?
Ganassi to Honda/Acura would not be a surprise. Honda is rumored to be looking for a NASCAR entry and Ganassi could be the factory team for that effort. That would provide Ganassi a single manufacturer across Indy, IMSA and NASCAR.
Sport as we know it is dying. Younger folks don’t care.