Turner Motorsport is expanding its IMSA racing programs to include entries in the VP Racing Challenge series in 2025 and entries in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship (IWSC) and Michelin Pilot Challenge.
Turner will return to the IWSC with the same lineup they had in 2024, with Robby Foley and Patrick Gallagher in the #96 entry in the GTD class for the full season. They’ll be joined by Jake Walker for the Michelin Endurance Cup rounds (as he did last year) and will be bolstered by works driver Jens Klingmann at Daytona. The only difference in the 2025 IWSC program is that the team will be racing the new M4 GT3 EVO, making its series debut at Daytona.
The VP Racing Challenge program is new for 2025, with Jake Walker set to contest the full sprint-race, single-driver series in the #6 M4 GT3. Walker will be in the new GTDX class for GT3-spec cars and will be driving a car that Turner raced last year, as VP Challenge rules require that GTDX entries must be cars that were previously homologated. Vin Barletta will also be driving the #95 M4 GT3 in the VP Challenge races at Daytona, though he won’t be running the full season. There are nine GTDX entries for Daytona, including the #28 ST Racing M4 GT3 entry for Samantha Tan that was previously announced.
Turner Motorsport will also have M4 GT4 entries in the Michelin Pilot Challenge and VP Racing Challenge championships this year. In the Michelin Pilot Challenge, Francis Selldorff and Dillon Machavern will team up in the #95 M4 GT4 for the full season, while the #96 M4 GT4 will be split between Patrick Gallagher and Matt Dalton and Robby Foley and Vin Barletta. Gallagher may run the full year, depending on how the season goes. The M4 GT4s running in the Michelin Pilot Challenge will be cars that Turner previously raced that are updated with an EVO kit for 2025, which includes new headlights/taillights and an updated front splitter.
In the VP Challenge series, Matt Dalton will race the #96 M4 GT4 in the GSX class and go up against three other M4 GT4s. Dalton is only confirmed for the Daytona VP Challenge race at this time.
Team owner Will Turner is excited about getting the 2025 IMSA season underway. “As usual, it’s been a crazy off-season to get this fleet of BMWs set for 2025,” he said. “It’ll be a busy two weeks in Daytona, but I can’t wait to get to the track with the BMW M4 EVOs. It’ll take a lot of tacos to power my crew across six BMWs, but we’re up for the challenge.”
The 2025 IMSA season gets underway next weekend with the “Roar Before the 24” testing weekend for IWSC and Michelin Pilot Challenge entries. The first two races of the VP Racing Challenge series will also be held over the Roar weekend.
—David Haueter
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