Porsche Penske Motorsport 2026 IMSA Lineup Confirmed

December 1, 2025

· Porsche Penske Motorsport aims to continue its perfect run in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship

· New Porsche 911 Cup and 911 GT3 R celebrate their competitive debut

· Former Porsche Carrera Cup North America champ Loek Hartog wins the traditional Porsche Cup

· Flynt Schuring and Marcus Amand are the new Porsche Juniors

· Porsche with factory team and strong customer teams in the 2025/2026 Formula E World Championship

Porsche will once again be competing on the big stages of international motorsport in 2026 with ambitious goals. In the North American IMSA championship, the Porsche Penske Motorsport works team will compete with the optimized 963. In addition, two customer racing cars are set to make their competitive debut: the 911 Cup in Porsche Carrera Cup North America, Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup and two additional regional one-make cups, as well as the comprehensively improved 911 GT3 R in global GT championships and at selected top events. Finally, the Porsche Formula E team aims to win further titles in the World Championship with the 9XX Electric.

Stuttgart. Porsche Motorsport presented its comprehensive program for 2026 at the traditional “Night of Champions" in Stuttgart on November 29. The core elements remain the factory commitments in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and FIA Formula E World Championship.

“Porsche and motorsport – they are inextricably linked. With the Cup version of the 911, we are building one of the most successful and best-selling customer racing cars worldwide: the recently unveiled new model will compete in the Supercup and Carrera Cups in Germany, the U.S. and Asia Pacific in 2026,” Michael Steiner, Member of the Executive Board for Research and Development at Porsche AG, said. “We have been promoting young talent for decades: this autumn, we held another junior talent search, which produced two new talents for 2026.

We remain committed to endurance racing: in IMSA with the Porsche 963, in WEC in the LMGT3 class. And Porsche is intensifying its commitment to Formula E, where the 26/27 season will see the premiere of the GEN4 race cars with greater freedom for manufacturers.

We learn in motorsport in a highly-competitive environment, which also helps the manufacturer on the road. The interaction between motorsport and series development here in Weissach makes our sports cars unique and fit for the future.”

“The 2025 motorsport year was once again an extremely successful one for Porsche. The titles in the Formula E World Championship and the IMSA series are impressive proof of this,” Thomas Laudenbach, Head of Porsche Motorsport, said. “Second place at Le Mans, just 14 seconds behind – that hurts, no doubt about it. The fact that we were also able to fight for the world championship in the WEC in the end was made possible by tremendous teamwork. We have achieved significant success in customer racing: another class victory at Le Mans, all GT titles in the WEC, DTM victory and only narrowly missed successes in the big 24-hour races at the Nürburgring and Spa. Now we have repositioned ourselves and are starting afresh – in Formula E as early as next weekend, and at the end of January in Daytona. The 2026 season will be more exciting than almost any other before.”

The title chase continues: Porsche Penske Motorsport with two 963s in the IMSA series

After winning all championship titles in the 2024 and 2025 seasons, the Porsche Penske Motorsport works team wants to remain the benchmark in North America next year: in 2026, two Porsche 963s will once again compete in the top GTP class of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. On the last weekend in January, the two hybrid cars will compete in the season opener at the 24 Hours of Daytona. Frenchman Kévin Estre and Laurens Vanthoor from Belgium will be the regular drivers in the team's No. 6 car. The sister car with the No. 7 will be shared by Brazilian Felipe Nasr and Julien Andlauer from France. At the endurance classics in Daytona and Sebring, as well as at the season finale “Petit Le Mans” at Road Atlanta, reigning IMSA champion Matt Campbell from Australia (No. 6) and former Porsche Junior Laurin Heinrich from Germany (No. 7) will support the factory team. The US customer team JDC-Miller MotorSports will also be back on the grid in 2026 with a Porsche 963.