Cadillac Racing has announced a two-team line-up for 2025 FIA WEC season after partnering with Hertz Team JOTA.
Cadillac Racing have announced that its FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) Hypercar programme will expand to a two-car factory effort for 2025 and will be named Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA. British-based Hertz Team JOTA sponsored by global car rental company Hertz entered the Hypercar class as a privateer in 2023 and currently runs two cars in the WEC with a Porsche 963.
The squad secured an overall victory in Hypercar at round three of FIA WEC, the TotalEnergies 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, earlier this year and was runner-up in the season-opening Qatar Airways Qatar 1812 Km. Hertz Team JOTA currently lead the FIA World Cup for Hypercar teams.
John Roth, Global Cadillac’s Vice President: “Cadillac is proud to be racing against the best in the world as part of the FIA World Endurance Championship, and that includes Hertz Team JOTA. We are thrilled to welcome Hertz Team JOTA next year, bringing decades of racing and technical expertise together, to achieve continued success on the track and create new advocates for our brand around the globe.”
Sam Hignett, Hertz Team JOTA’s Director and Founder: “JOTA has always strived to become a manufacturer team, so now joining forces with Cadillac is the realization of this goal. Having competed against the Cadillac V-Series.R for the last two seasons, we have experienced how competitive it is and we are genuinely honored to be entrusted with fielding its cars from 2025 onward.
“We are in the privileged position to have enjoyed record-breaking success in the FIA World Endurance Championship, especially at Le Mans, and we are very much looking forward to continuing this success with Cadillac and Hertz.”
Drivers of the No. 12 and No. 38 Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA V-Series.R racecars, which are powered by the purpose-built Cadillac 5.5L DOHC V8 engine, will be announced at a later date.
[Note: The story is as per press release]