For the pair of Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing GTP teams, the day was capped off with a 15-minute qualifying session for the Grand Prix of Long Beach grid. In the No. 10 Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing V-Series.R, Filipe Albuquerque handled the driving duties. For the No. 40 Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing V-Series.R, Louis Delétraz tackled his third qualifying session of 2025 season.

As the 11-car GTP field saw a completely green flag session, it was all about finding clear track position for a clean lap. When the checkered flag flew, Albuquerque’s best time of 01:12.964 earned him seventh and Delétraz’s fastest lap of 0:13.015 landed ninth to start Saturday’s race.

The Grand Prix of Long Beach goes green at 5:05 p.m. ET (2:05 p.m. PT) with all 100 minutes broadcast on USA Network.

TOP FIVE GTP STARTING GRID
1. No. 24 BMW M Team RLL Cadillac Racing (BMW M Hybrid V8) D. Vanthoor, P. Eng (99.034mph)
2. No. 25 BMW M Team RLL Cadillac Racing (BMW M Hybrid V8) S. van der Linde, M. Wittmann (98.689 mph)
3. No. 7 Porsche Penske Motorsport (Porsche 963), N. Tandy, F. Nasr (98.415 mph)
4. No. 6 Porsche Penske Motorsport (Porsche 963), M. Jaminet, M. Campbell (98.035 mph)
5. No. 93 Acura Meyer Shank Racing w/ Curb-Agajanian (Acura ARX-06) N. Yelloly, R. van der Zande (97.837 mph)
7. No. 10 Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing (Cadillac V-Series.R) R. Taylor, F. Albuquerque (97.099 mph)
9. No. 40 Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing (Cadillac V-Series.R) J. Taylor, L. Delétraz (97.032 mph)

Filipe Albuquerque, full season co-driver, No. 10 Cadillac WTR V-Series.R: “I think we went into qualifying still sorting out the car. It has been pretty hard for us, again. We are still fighting to better understand the Cadillac V-Series.R. I think we are closing the gap. Qualifying was perhaps not our forte, maybe in the race it will be. The race is open and always chaotic, and let’s do a nice strategy for that.”

Louis Delétraz, full season co-driver, No. 40 Cadillac WTR V-Series.R: “Obviously not the result we wanted. We tried some things, and we learned some things. Tomorrow, it won’t be easy to start from the back, but we will fight hard. There is a lot of strategy when racing on street tracks, so we will see what happens. I am very excited for this, and I think we are learning every lap. I am positive that we will be in the race tomorrow and fighting for good things. Thank you to everyone at WTR 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.