The bumper-to-bumper full house in the infield at Daytona International Speedway perhaps indicates a sea change in the popularity of sports-car racing in the U.S.
in June with its plethora of hybrid prototypes from additional manufacturers. Indianapolis will start down the path of hosting a major endurance race. Sebring’s 12 hour remains a fixture in the fragrant orange groves of central Florida. Almost everyone in the garage at the Rolex is bound for the Petit Le Mans in pursuit of a championship at season’s end.
Maybe, just maybe, a combination of the millennials who drive the current marketplace and those who see this new deal as reminiscent of their own youth when factory giants roamed endurance racing in the 1960s will hasten a new dawn. Where can it possibly go wrong? Well, after Sebring of this year, there’s no sanctioned race in the U.S. for the hybrids of the World Endurance Championship who seem to gravitate toward Le Mans. Like other sports have experienced, Middle Eastern money buys racing dates just like it purchases the soul of golfers willing to overlook authoritarian values out of step with modernity.
While there’s a commitment by Cadillac to the new IMSA formula of three years, per the sanctioning body’s factory participation agreement, will the budget still be in place if the GM brand takes up Formula 1 with Andretti Autosport in four seasons’ time?Getty Images
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