JOTA will run Cadillac’s factory Hypercar programme next year in the FIA World Endurance Championship, the British team has confirmed.
The Cadillac Racing programme will expand into a two car programme in line with the WEC’s two-car manufacturer mandate next year, with the team to be known as Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA.
Thus, rental car company Hertz’s title sponsorship of JOTA will continue as the team takes on a factory programme for the first time.
The drivers for each car, the #12 and the #38, will be announced at a later date. These are JOTA’s existing car numbers from the team’s current customer Porsche programme, will which continued into the Cadillac era.
JOTA won its first overall WEC race earlier this year in the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, with Callum Ilott and Will Stevens in the #12 JOTA Porsche 963.
Cadillac, meanwhile, has had a single car programme for the last two years, with Alex Lynn and Earl Bamber driving the #2 Cadillac V-Series.R this year. Last year the team scored a podium in Cadillac’s first year of WEC competition, while this year they’ve had top 5 finishes at Sebring, Portimao, and Spa.
“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,” said Global Cadillac’s vice president, John Roth.
“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.”
JOTA’s founder and director, Sam Hignett, said: “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.”
