Wayne Taylor has clarified that while his racing team’s two-year partnership with former Andretti Global CEO Michael Andretti is no more – hence the omission of the Andretti surname from WTR’s entry in 2025 – Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing is still working with TWG Motorsports and CEO Dan Towriss.
About the two-year partnership with Andretti, the owner and namesake of WTR said: “We had a good time, to be honest. I enjoyed working with Michael and J-F [Thormann] and those guys. But they had other things going on as well. They had the [Cadillac] Formula One programme, the IndyCar programme – so there was not a massive amount of integration.”
“Dan and his group made the decision to keep Wayne Taylor Racing separate, which obviously makes me happier,” Taylor said. “So I’m still partnering with him.”
TWG Motorsports is a part of the larger TWG Global company, founded by Mark Walter, the CEO of Guggenheim Partners. With Towriss as the CEO and figurehead of TWG Motorsports, the firm owns WTR, Andretti Global, NASCAR team Spire Motorsports – and in partnership with General Motors, will launch the Cadillac Formula One Team in 2026.
Taylor reinforced that there was no animosity between himself and Andretti, who worked together for the past two seasons across the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship GTP and GTD classes.
“My first understanding of it was that [Michael] was going to take some time off. And now I think the biggest focus in the group is the Cadillac LMDh programme and Formula One. They’re really tied together, and not tied together – but they are extremely important to the brand, watching it all over the world, competing in two of the biggest classes of racing.”
Taylor’s continued relationship with Towriss and TWG will also have Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing staying in the team’s current Brownsburg, Indiana headquarters instead of moving into Andretti Global’s new facility in Fishers – removing one pain point as WTR also rejoins Cadillac and GM after leaving Honda/Acura.
“It’s really fantastic,” said Taylor. “You know, partnering with them, and him allowing us to use our workshop. Really and truly, if you think about it – we operated the same way through Andretti for two years. We still own that shop, and we expanded a bit on that shop.
“It just made more sense to keep us where we are, because there’s always so many things happening. Going from Honda to Cadillac, and then also starting to plan to go into another shop, is just too much.”
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