PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports has confirmed that it will likely not be fielding a second car in the Rolex 24 at Daytona despite earlier plans, thus bringing the LMP2 field for the IMSA Weathertech Sportscar Championship opener down to six cars.
The team initially intended to run two ORECA 07-Gibsons in the Florida classic, but the team told Sportscar365 it was unable to secure the necessary budget and funding to run the two cars. It has a second car present for the Roar Before the 24 test, but that car will not be competing in the race at the end of the month.
The #52 car, with which it competed in the full campaign last year, will still compete and the team has confirmed that Simon Trummer, Nick Boulle, Ben Keating and Gabriel Aubry will be forming the line-up for that car.
Aubry returns to the team and the ORECA chassis after completing a test with Aston Martin’s Vantage GTE car at Bahrain last month.
Keating meanwhile confirmed on Twitter that the ORECA 07-Gibson is one of two cars he will be driving for the 24-hour race, also driving Riley Motorsports’ Mercedes-AMG GT3 in the GT Daytona category.
