Robert Wickens will contest the five GTD sprint rounds of the 2025 IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Championship with DXDT Racing in a Corvette Z06 GT3.R, it has been announced.
Thirty-five-year-old Wickens will race the car at Long Beach, Laguna Seca, Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, Road America, and VIRginia International Raceway. His co-driver will be announced in due course, with Charlie Eastwood, Salih Yoluc, and Alex Udell also racing for DXDT over the full Sportscar Championship campaign.
The Canadian has been racing for the past three seasons in IMSA’s Michelin Pilot Challenge series, in a Hyundai Elantra N TCR car, run by Bryan Herta Autosport. He and co-driver Harry Gottsacker took the IMPC TCR championship in 2023, with seven podiums, before finishing as runner-up in 2024.
He’s now ready to take the next step into the headline IMSA championship in 2025.
The former Indycar driver was injured in 2018 in a crash at Pocono. This injured his spinal column and left him a paraplegic.
It was three years before the Canadian was able to race again. He uses a hand control system, which is able to be switched off to allow an able-bodied co-driver to race the car as well.
The system, designed by Bosch, will be adapted for use in the Corvette GT3 car, in partnership with General Motors. Wickens is hoping to get his first laps in the car in the coming months, before debuting at Long Beach in April.
‘The next step’ in Wickens career
“It’s an amazing day,” said Wickens in a call with select media, including Motorsport Week.
To finally move up to top tier competition, moving up to the IMSA WeatherTech series, racing in GTD with DXDT with the Corvette car.
“Growing up a hero of mine was always Ron Fellows. So that the fact that I’ll be driving a Corvette, like he made so famous to many Canadian drivers. It’s going to be a lot of fun, and I can’t thank DXDT enough for the opportunity, and Bosch, for frankly making it all possible.
“I’ve been wanting to move up into WeatherTech for quite some time. I felt like I was fairly transparent in that messaging, but it was always a difficult predication of trying to convince the OEMs or or the the team owners to one, put me in the car like in the racing driver and then say, oh, by the way, you have to design a whole braking system that doesn’t exist.
“So the fact that Bosch came to the table with with their technology. It’s already proving that it’s given me the opportunities that that I want in my career, not only in this next journey, moving up into the WeatherTech series, but, we already raced it in the TCR category for the final two rounds of the Michelin Pilot challenge series with great success,” he concluded.
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