Wayne Taylor Racing Snaps Winless Streak as Pfaff and Lamborghini Score a Historic First at Road America

Wayne Taylor Racing ended a winless run stretching back more than two years on Sunday, taking the GTP class win at the Motul SportsCar Endurance Grand Prix, the six-hour IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship round at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. Filipe Albuquerque and Ricky Taylor drove the No. 10 Cadillac V-Series.R to victory, giving the team its first win since Detroit in June 2024.

The race itself was a rough one. Officials threw nine caution periods over the six hours, with contact and rough-driving penalties reshuffling the field repeatedly through the closing stages, and the event ultimately finished under yellow flag conditions.

It was a strong day across the board for Wayne Taylor Racing. The team's sister entry, the No. 40 Cadillac driven by Jordan Taylor and Louis Delétraz, came home third, sandwiching the JDC-Miller MotorSports No. 5 Porsche 963 of Laurin Heinrich, Kaylen Frederick and Tijmen van der Helm in second on the overall podium.

Team owner Wayne Taylor, whose organization has carried his name through multiple IMSA titles and endurance-race wins with the previous-generation Cadillac DPi-V.R, spoke to how difficult the drought had been. "I just couldn't be happier," he said. "The last 18 months has been the hardest 18 months for me in motorsports."

Road America also produced a milestone in GTD Pro, where Pfaff Motorsports and Lamborghini celebrated the first IMSA and North American race win for the new Lamborghini Temerario GT3. Andrea Caldarelli and Sandy Mitchell drove the No. 9 entry to victory, snapping a 36-race winless streak for the Canadian team that dated back to the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring in March 2023, when its Porsche 911 GT3 R won with Klaus Bachler, Patrick Pilet and Laurens Vanthoor at the wheel.

Pfaff general manager Steve Bortolotti credited the team's persistence through the long gap between wins. "It's been a long time, and I'm proud of everyone at Pfaff Motorsports for digging deep," he said. Caldarelli, a factory Lamborghini Squadra Corse driver, pointed to how quickly the Temerario GT3 program had matured. "It feels really special because I saw where we were literally 12 months ago, and to come here and win, it's insane to think about what in 12 months the guys in Italy have done," he said.

Mitchell, meanwhile, credited the strategy calls that helped the Lamborghini beat back its GTD Pro rivals over the six-hour distance. "The Porsches and the Corvettes were super quick, but we had a couple absolutely amazing strategy calls from the guys at Pfaff," he said. The IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship's GTD Pro and GTD classes are next scheduled to race on August 23 at Virginia International Raceway.