Will Stevens will contest the IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup with Wayne Taylor Racing, starting with the Rolex 24 at Daytona in January.
He joins the top DPi squad for the 2022 campaign. He will partner Filipe Albuquerque and Ricky Taylor, who have been retained after the 2021 season. Alexander Rossi completes the line-up at Daytona, having won the race with Albuquerque, Taylor and Helio Castroneves earlier this year.
Stevens has not raced in the IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Championship previously, but has plenty of experience in prototype racing. After racing in Formula One with Caterham and Marussia, he competed in LMP2 cars in the FIA World Endurance Championship and European Le Mans Series for the likes of Jackie Chan DC Racing, G-Drive Racing and Panis Racing.
“I’m super excited to join the Wayne Taylor Racing family and the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship for Daytona, Sebring and Petit Le Mans,” said Stevens.
“This team is very respected and one that I’ve always wanted to be part of. IMSA Is a huge market in motorsport that is growing massively and it’s a relationship that I want to build on for the future.
“I have known Ricky, Filipe and Alexander a little bit over the past few years, so it’s nice to have that relationship already with the guys. It’s an honor to be part of this exceptional No. 10 Konica Minolta Acura ARX-05 team and to help with the success for this year.”
Rossi and Stevens have previous history from their time as team-mates with Marussia during the 2015 F1 season. Team owner Wayne Taylor explained that the 30-year-old had been on the team’s radar for a while.
“I’m excited to finally announce our 2022 driver lineup for the full season, the Michelin Endurance Cup and for the Rolex 24 at Daytona,” expressed team owner Wayne Taylor. “Each year, we speak with many drivers as we develop our driver lineup, and I feel very good to officially announce everyone.
“Ricky and Filipe will be back as full-time co-drivers. Continuity is always a good thing and both of them work really well together. We have Alexander Rossi joining us again. He did a great job with us last year helping us win the Rolex 24.”
“Will Stevens will be running all Michelin Endurance Cup races for us. He’s been someone that we’ve been watching over the last year or two and gathering info on. Alex and he were teammates in Formula 1 years ago, so the drivers meshed very well at the recent two day test in Daytona where Will came up to speed very quickly.”
“The most important thing is having everybody with the same goal which is to win. Thank you to Acura, HPD, Konica Minolta, Harrison Contracting and CIT who have all helped to make this happen and I can’t wait to get back to Daytona.”
