Wayne Taylor Racing drivers Danny Formal and Trent Hindman nursed a damaged wheel en route to the team’s first-ever win in the GTD programme.
The #45 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2 drivers endured minor damage towards the team’s maiden IMSA GTD class victory at the Canadian Tire Motorsport Park (CTMP).
They won the Chevrolet Grand Prix last Sunday, 13 July, marking the first in WTR’s GTD programme, established for the 2024 season, whilst the GTP effort switched from Acura to Cadillac machinery for 2025.
Formal, a young Lamborghini factory driver since 2024 and double Super Trofeo champion with WTR, shared his reaction after the breakthrough CTMP win.
“To be honest, it is my first [IMSA win] and the first for the GTD programme for Wayne Taylor Racing, and now with my teammate Trent Hindman.
“He just told us his last win was at Watkins Glen in 2019 […] it was complete adversity in the first five minutes of the race.
“I got a good start, and the car was amazing, right, and got t-boned going into T9 (by Onofrio Triarsi)
“We drove the whole stint with a broken rim; the vibration was just insane.
“But the team said, ‘keep on chugging, keep on doing this. We have a strategy, we have a plan.’
“So obviously, I kept driving as hard as I could.
“It was very difficult, but Trent jumped in; he was super fast. The team just pulled this amazing strategy.
“Trent did some crazy fuel saving. Everyone under the tent has been working so hard for two years. This win is truly deserved.”
Hindman: ‘Nothing but faith’ in WTR crew
Formal qualified the car fifth in the GTD category and made contact with the #021 Triarsi Competizione Ferrari 296 GT3, which started in P8, seemingly showing no damage for both cars, which continued.
The #021 Ferrari driver served a drive-through penalty for incident responsibility, as Hindman recalled his undeniable faith in the WTR team.
Hindman added: “I’ll tell you the whole time, I had nothing but faith for the guys on the box and the calls you see them make in GTP racing, so we are just very fortunate to have the same calibre crew on our side with the GTD car.
“We’ve had nothing go our way this year, and to finally have a race come to us like that.
“Yeah, it took a bit of luck, but from personal experience, I’ve been on the wrong side of a lot of these kinds of races a lot.
“So you take it any way you can get it, but the car was plenty quick.
“The team was telling me everything they could about what we needed to achieve and what to do in order to make that strategy work.”
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