Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing shift gears as the regular season of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship begins with the 100-minute sprint race on the streets of Long Beach. The historic 1.97-mile temporary street circuit in SoCal is home to the season’s first of the two shortest races on the calendar. As Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing returns to the West Coast, the duo of Cadillac V-Series.R GTPs look to repeat the manufacturer’s success last year and seek WTR’s first victory since 2017.    

Full season co-drivers, Ricky Taylor and Filipe Albuquerque, pair up for their fifth year together in the No. 10 Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing V-Series.R GTP and ready to continue building their full season success together. At Long Beach, Taylor has accomplished an impressive three victories (all with brother, and teammate, Jordan Taylor) while Albuquerque boosts two wins along with four pole positions amongst the two veteran IMSA drivers. As Taylor and Albuquerque enter Long Beach, the pair are ready to challenge for the top step of the podium in attempt to earn their first win together on Shoreline Drive.

Long Beach marks the redemption and reset button for the No. 40 Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing V-Series.R GTP team after a difficult start to the 2025 IMSA season. Jordan Taylor and Louis Delétraz enter their second full-time season as co-drivers in the chrome No. 40 machine. Taylor is a three-time winner, two-time polesitter at Long Beach and Delétraz now is familiar with the 100-minute sprint events that the pair having a formula that can lead them to victory in 2025.

With a condensed two-day weekend, time will be of the strategic essence come the Grand Prix of Long Beach weekend for the Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing GTP teams. Friday, April 11 will host two practice sessions and cap off the day with qualifying at 8:10 p.m. ET (5:10 p.m. PT) on Peacock. The 100-minute sprint race on the streets of Long Beach will go green at 5:05 p.m. ET (2:05 p.m. PT) with broadcast on USA Network.

Wayne Taylor, Team Owner, Wayne Taylor Racing: “Long Beach is a big event. It’s important to the car manufacturers and last year Cadillac had the speed and had the pace. We don’t seem to have found that pace, although we’re getting closer, and we’ve had very little time with this car. I think everybody at WTR is positive that we will have a good car when we take it off the truck. I’m going to Long beach on the basis of starting over again because this year hasn’t been our best, however, it’s our job to bring the results. I know we have the best team out there with the best drivers. If we can’t win, we’ve got to figure out what it is that we are doing wrong. A podium, we’d be happy with – first place is what we want and we are going there to try to finish 1-2.”

Ricky Taylor, full season co-driver, No. 10 Cadillac WTR V-Series.R: “It is always exciting to get into the sprint race part of the season where we can really get back into the rhythm of IMSA racing. It’s always a bit of a shock to the system to transition to every lap really counting, but I think all of our drivers really enjoy that. We really have to be on our game and make every session count. We have been learning a lot about this car, and this will be the first race weekend we’ve gone into it without any prior testing, so we will be working hard to make the little track time we get, count. Relying on the sister car will be so important, with the short time to get the race cars where we want them for qualifying, we must trust each other’s feedback and work to create two strong cars for the race.”

Filipe Albuquerque, full season co-driver, No. 10 Cadillac WTR V-Series.R: “It’s always nice to go to California. Cadillac had an amazing race there last year; they qualified on pole and drove really well. The motivation is high. We are still learning about the car, but we are closing down to what we need to know. Let’s hope we can get our first podium with the Cadillac in Long Beach. There’s no better place to start with sprint races and street courses are always nice. So let’s bring it on and I can’t wait to go for it.”

Jordan Taylor, full season co-driver, No. 40 Cadillac WTR V-Series.R: “I think we’re all ready to get to Long Beach after a rough start to our year. Our championship run is pretty hard to imagine at this point, so our goal from here on out is basically to race for wins. There is no reason to be settling for anything less. It will be our first street course and first sprint race with our Cadillac V-Series.R. Last year they were very strong, so we’re hoping to pick up where they left off. We have done a lot of prep heading into the event, and with the limited time on track, I feel like we’re as prepared as we can be to hit the ground running.”

Louis Delétraz, full season co-driver, No. 40 Cadillac WTR V-Series.R: “Long Beach is always a fun event. We’ve had a rough start of the year on No. 40, so we’re really motivated to have a good weekend. It’s the first sprint race of the year, and the Cadillac V-Series.R GTP is always fast on street courses. The track evolution is huge between FP1 and the race. Every lap will matter for car setup, but also for driver confidence. It’s such a special feeling to drive between the walls with those cars.”

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.