Tatiana Calderon will return to the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship with Gradient Racing for the Endurance Cup, joining Sheena Monk and Katherine Legge’s second year as full-season drivers.
The Columbian racing driver will return to IMSA, having solely driven at the 24 Hours of Daytona in 2020 for the Grasser Racing Team, where Legge was one of her teammates.
She will participate at the five Endurance Cup events, commencing with the two which open the 2024 season – the Daytona 24 Hours and the Sebring 12 Hours.
Monk and Legge are also confirmed in the #66 Acura NSX GT3 entrant within the GTD category into their second year as teammates.
Marc Miller will instead make a one-off appearance at the Daytona 24 as opposed to his Endurance role throughout 2023, which highlights Gradient Racing as the second confirmed GTD team running female drivers, the Iron Dames being at first.
Calderon has made further appearances within sportscar racing since her 2020 Daytona debut, including two seasons in the European Le Mans Series driving an Oreca 07-Gibson LMP2 in each of them.
Between the 2020 and 2023 ELMS campaigns, she drove twice at the 24 Hours of Le Mans for Richard Mille Racing with teammates Sophia Floersch and Beitske Visser, finishing ninth on her first instance in the LMP2 class, then a DNF on their second attempt as the trio competed in the 2021 FIA World Endurance Championship.
Her 2023 ELMS campaign for Team Virage saw Alexander Mattschull secure a pole position within LMP2 Pro/Am at the penultimate Portimao race, as the 4 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps beforehand marked the team’s best finishing position of fifth in-class, and sixth overall.
Gradient Racing finished fourth at the Daytona 24 in January 2023, and so they will target a podium finish in the highest number of class entries out of the four IMSA categories on 27-28 January 2024.
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