Wright Motorsports has announced its drivers for the 2026 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, featuring FIA World Endurance Championship race winner and IndyCar Series driver Callum Ilott as a full-time driver.
Ilott, who drove in IndyCar last season with PREMA Racing, will share the #120 Porsche 911 GT3 R with Wright owner/driver Adam Adelson, who purchased the team from founder John Wright in April, and also won the inaugural GTDX title in the VP Racing SportsCar Challenge series.
It’ll be Ilott’s first full-season campaign in sports car racing since his 2024 WEC effort with Hertz Team JOTA, in which Ilott won the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, driving one of JOTA’s privateer Porsche 963s with Will Stevens. The British driver first drove for Wright Motorsports during the 2023 Indianapolis 8 Hour.
Ilott also said that his new program in IMSA will be run alongside a continued program in IndyCar; there are no clashes between the two series, outside of shared events at the Grand Prix of Long Beach and Detroit Grand Prix.
“I’m thrilled to be joining Wright Motorsports for the full season in GTD alongside my IndyCar season,” added Callum Ilott. “Having raced with Wright Motorsports once before, I got a taste of how impressive the team is and I’m motivated to continue building on that throughout the year. It’s shaping up to be a great season ahead and I can’t wait to get to work with Adam, Elliott, Tom and the whole Wright crew.”
2025 Porsche Motorsport North America (PMNA) Selected Driver, Tom Sargent, returns to drive the five-race Michelin Endurance Cup, while Adelson’s long-time co-driver Elliott Skeer will round out the four-driver crew for the Rolex 24 At Daytona in January.
“I’m extremely excited to get the 2026 season started off with Daytona,” said Adelson, who enters his third season in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. “We have a new car in the 911 GT3 R Evo, and have been working hard in the off-season to be able to extract the most of it as soon as we hit the track.
“I’m also very excited that Callum is joining the team for the full season. We’ve been good friends for quite some time and always spoke about how cool it would be to race together, and I’m glad to see that come to fruition. For the Rolex 24, we have Tom and Elliott with us, and it’s a driver lineup I know we can count on to bring home a really strong result, hopefully better than last year!”
Wright Motorsports, who won the GTD class at the 2022 Rolex 24, will be one of at least five teams entering the newest 992.2-generation Porsche 911 GT3 R for its first IMSA race at Daytona – including Manthey’s two-car, two-class program, as well as AO Racing, Mühlner Motorsports, and RS1.
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