Vasser Sullivan will will add a full-season GTD entry in the 2022 IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Championship for their #12 Lexus RC F GT3 and drivers Aaron Telitz and Frankie Montecalvo plus Richard Heistand for the four endurance races, to their already confirmed single GTD Pro class effort.
A fourth driver for Daytona will be announced in the New Year.
It’s a fourth season in IMSA competition with the team for both Telitz and Montecalvo, both have played a part since the Vasser Sulivan/Lexus relationship began
Telitz contested the 2019 IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup, stepping up as a full-season driver in 2020 alongside Jack Hawksworth and scoring three wins, five podiums and three pole positions taking the GTD Sprint Cup driver and team championships with Lexus also claiming the Sprint Cup manufacturer championship.
In 2021, he again paired with Hawksworth to score six top-five results, including a win in the sprint race at Watkins Glen plus a further pair of podiums.
Montecalvo took his first IMSA win at Road America in 2020 and his first IMSA poles at Sebring and Road Atlanta). In 2021, his #12 Lexus RC F GT3 took four top-five finishes, including three podiums, a third-place finish at Petit Le Mans and seconds at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course and in the Watkins Glen International sprint race.
Heistand returns to Vasser Sullivan after driving for the team in 2019 taking pole at Mid-Ohio and partnering Jack Hawksworth to wins at Mid-Ohio and Detroit.
