DragonSpeed has announced that team regulars Henrik Hedman and Ben Hanley will compete with it in the full (six-round) 2020 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season in LMP2 and the non-points scoring Rolex 24 at Daytona where it will gun for a second consecutive LMP2 class victory.
Running from the same Indianapolis premises as its IndyCar Series crew, the DragonSpeed ORECA for the 2020 season will run alongside a new ORECA O7 Gibson from Kyle Tilley’s Era Motorsport (as previously revealed on DSC).
DragonSpeed’s European operation, which competes in the ELMS, will continue to be based at its shop in Aix-en-Provence in the south of France as the team targets a fourth consecutive invitation to the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
“IMSA’s changes to the LMP2 class rules and schedule have put it on a par with the ELMS in terms of gentleman driver appeal, and we are responding enthusiastically to that,” said DragonSpeed team principal Elton Julian.
Looking ahead to his seventh season with DragonSpeed, Hedman said, ”We had decided to add the four Michelin Endurance Cup races to my European schedule, but with IMSA requiring a Bronze driver in LMP2 now, I couldn’t pass up the chance of racing again at some of my favourite tracks, such as Road America and Laguna Seca, by doing the full season.”
