Entering the six-hour endurance race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing had high hopes seeking victory at their home track. The No. 40 Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing V-Series.R GTP and No. 10 Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing V-Series.R GTP teams lined up second and third, respectively, contributing to a Cadillac Racing 1-2-3 start for Sunday’s Battle on the Bricks. Starting drivers for the Cadillac WTR team were Ricky Taylor in the No. 10 and Louis Delétraz in the No. 40. The opening minutes consisted of multiple cautions and split strategies with the first pit window opening seeing some GTP leaders top off for energy while the two others stayed out. One of the teams to stay out was the No. 10. After the restart, the Taylor went on the lead for 21 laps in the first stint. Delétraz continued to run within the top seven of the GTP field for his first stint on track.

As the first full pit stops approached, Taylor and the No. 10 crew opted for the undercut strategy and came into pit lane from second position. Taylor hoped out of the driver’s seat and Filipe Albuquerque took over. For Delétraz and the No. 40, the team went with the overcut strategy and Jordan Taylor now controlled the silver chrome machine.

An hour and a half into the six hours, the pair of Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing GTPs took a strategy gamble and were the only two GTP cars who pitted under the current caution to top off with energy. With that strategy, both the No. 10 and No. 40 needed to pass as many as cars as possible to regain track position while others were shorter on energy when the race restarted. The field continued to chip away at minutes on the clock and the halfway mark approached quickly. Just shy of halfway, the No. 10 was gaining positions on track but unfortunately experienced a cut tire while attempting to avoid contact with a competitor. This required the No. 10 crew to make an unscheduled pit stop to replace the tire. With a green flag pit stop, that forced the No. 10 to go a lap down from the leaders. Meanwhile, the No. 40 was charging forward and fighting for position, when they were spun by contact from a GTD Pro car. Luckily, Taylor was able to continue and rejoin the field on track.

Much of the race at the that point on from halfway ran green, making it difficult to gain track positions throughout traffic. With the minimal cautions, the race primarily turned into a fuel and energy-saving race through the final two hours. In midst of those green-flag laps, both Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing V-Series.R GTPs switched drivers during pit stops leaving it to Ricky Taylor in the No. 10 and Louis Delétraz in the No. 40 to finish. A caution with over an hour to go saw the field come in for full-service pit stops. That specific caution allowed Taylor and the No. 10 to regain their lap back. Under the same yellow, the No. 40 team chose to come to pit lane again for additional and strategic energy replenish. Back under green, it was heads down for the final hour of action. Taylor and the blue chrome machine began clicking away at track positions and worked his way into the top five. Delétraz and the No. 40 aimed to keep their nose clean in the final as they were the only team on track who didn’t need a final pit stop.

Taylor sliced through the field in that final hour, within car lengths of the leader as minutes were counting down on the clock. As the entire field was saving fuel, a full course caution fell right as Taylor found himself in second. Quick cleanup by the IMSA safety crew led to a restart with two laps remaining in the Battle on the Bricks. Taylor put pressure on the leader for those final laps and ultimately crossed the line for second on the podium, in a Cadillac Racing 1-2 finish. What also looked to be perfect strategy in energy saving for the No. 40 crew did not come to fruition as the late yellow flag halted their strategy and progress forward to finish ninth.

“I am so (bleep) happy!,” said Wayne Taylor. “I have got to say that this team of engineers and crew took us from, with only an hour left, the back and put us back in position to give the driver everything he needed to move up. I don’t know how they did it. We had both cars on different strategies. Both cars had issues in the beginning of the race that were really unfortunate. With all the instances, we ended up contending for ninth and tenth. Crazy! I was so depressed! However, with just over an hour left to go and being about a lap and half down, we knew with fuel, Louis might win the race. However, if we got a caution, Ricky could end up second. Ricky went to it and helped the Whelen guys with Blomquist. I am ecstatic for the whole team, Cadillac and DEX.”

Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing will head next to the season finale for the 2025 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, MOTUL Petit Le Mans, on October 8-11, 2025, at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta.

Ricky Taylor, full season co-driver, No. 10 Cadillac WTR V-Series.R: “Some days, things don’t fall your way and some days, they do. It has been a really rough year for us. Today, the team did everything right. Filipe drove an amazing stint. Unlucky with the puncture, but I think we took the risks we needed to take with fuel savings and overtaking to gamble to get a Cadillac win. Between the Cadillacs, we had three different strategies, and I think that is what we need to do as a brand going forward. Couldn’t be happier! It was fun to be in the car at the end. Thanks to the WTR team, Cadillac and DEX. Hopefully, we can get our first win at Petit Le Mans.”

Filipe Albuquerque, full season co-driver, No. 10 Cadillac WTR V-Series.R: “I am speechless almost because at one point I was so mad at my race. I had a puncture, I was in the middle of everybody, P10. And went a lap down. And no yellows coming. Ricky went on, doing what he could and the yellow came and we got our lap back. We moved to a completely different strategy, and we were putting pressure on everybody. We needed a yellow and it came at the exact right moment. We got P2. It was a great result. It feels like a win. Cadillac 1-2 is awesome! Great for our WTR team and great for Cadillac.”

Jordan Taylor, full season co-driver, No. 40 Cadillac WTR V-Series.R: “I think we had a fast car. It was all about being up front and in clean air. Every time you were in traffic, it was tough to battle. We lost some track position early and never really got it back. We had to go off strategy and take a risk. Had it gone green all the way to the end, we might have had a podium, but we got a late yellow. Unfortunate for us, but great for the No. 10 team. Happy for Cadillac and their 1-2 finish.”

Louis Delétraz, full season co-driver, No. 40 Cadillac WTR V-Series.R: “Very unlucky day on the No. 40. I think we had a strong race, but we gambled on the race staying green. We were one of the only cars that could have made it to the end. Unfortunately, the yellow came out and screwed our chances of doing anything good. It is disappointing, of course. We gambled and it didn’t work. We had the best chance to make it on the podium, but it just didn’t go our way. Very happy for the 31 and 10 and the double podium for Cadillac.  Today, we split strategies and in either situation, we would have had a car up front. I think that is the point of this program, working together. It just didn’t work for us today, but that is motorsport. Really appreciate all the hard work by the WTR team and Cadillac.”

About Wayne Taylor Racing (WTR)

Wayne Taylor Racing’s global motorsports enterprise boasts two IMSA driver championships (2013 and 2017), and back-to-back IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup Championships (2020, 2021) which contributed to nine IMSA manufacturer championships for Acura, Pontiac, Corvette and Cadillac. In its brief 18-year history, WTR has accumulated multiple victories in sportscar racing’s most iconic events: Rolex 24 At Daytona, Twelve Hours of Sebring, Petit Le Mans, Mid-Ohio, Road America and the Six Hours of The Glen. With its back-to-back PRO Class Championship wins (2022, 2023), WTR currently has 14 North America Lamborghini Super Trofeo Championship titles and a Lamborghini World Finals title.