DETROIT – An all-star lineup of drivers will campaign the twin Cadillac DPi-V.R race cars for Chip Ganassi Racing in its second season of IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Daytona Prototype international competition.
Renger van der Zande will co-drive the No. 01 V-Performance Academy Cadillac DPi-V.R with Sebastien Bourdais for the full season. They will be joined by six-time NTT IndyCar Series champion Scott Dixon and reigning IndyCar champion Alex Palou for the season-opening Rolex 24 At Daytona to comprise a champions Cadillac lineup.
Earl Bamber and Alex Lynn will be the full-time co-drivers of the No. 02 Cadillac Accessories Cadillac DPi-V.R and will be joined by Kevin Magnussen and Marcus Ericsson for the Rolex 24 At Daytona.
“Our Cadillac drivers lead by example,” Chip Ganassi Racing Managing Director Mike Hull said. “Each have already won on the world stage. They unselfishly mirror each other’s performance on and off track. Their equal experience combined with skill set is driven through zero agenda.
“In today’s world of equal performance standards, the driver’s contribution is the ultimate separator. Our roster has eight of the very best in equal Cadillacs. Bamber, Bourdais, Ericsson, Dixon, Lynn, Magnussen and van der Zande — this group drives as one.”
Van der Zande, entering his second season with the team, has accumulated 15 wins and the 2016 Prototype Challenge championship in an IMSA career dating to 2013.
He co-drove a Cadillac DPi to victory in the 2019 and ’20 Rolex 24 At Daytona and in the ’18 and ’20 Motul Petit Le Mans. Last year, van de Zande co-drove the No. 01 V-Performance Academy Cadillac DPi-V.R with Magnussen to victory in the Chevrolet Sports Car Classic at The Raceway on Belle Isle.
Bourdais, a four-time IndyCar Series champion, returns to the Ganassi team where he drove in its GT Le Mans program from 2016-19, including a historic class win at the 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans. Bourdais has driven a Cadillac DPi-V.R the past two seasons for JDC-Miller MotorSports, earning a victory at Sebring.
Lynn is also a 12 Hours of Sebring winner in a Cadillac DPi, picking up the trophy in 2017. The versatile driver was the GP3 Series champion in 2014 and the British Formula Renault champion in ’10 and ’11 among notable accomplishments.
Bamber, who co-drove the No. 1 V-Performance Academy Cadillac DPi-V.R in last year’s season finale, is a two-time winner at Le Mans as part of the Porsche LMP1 program. He drove to the 2019 WeatherTech Championship GTLM title.
On-track activity begins Jan. 21 at Daytona Int’l Speedway with the Roar Before the Rolex 24 in preparation for the 60th anniversary of the 24-hour race Jan. 29-30.