Yelloly and van der Linde will be making their first IMSA appearances as part of the Rahal-run BMW Team RLL works team that claimed GTLM victories at Daytona in 2019 and 2020, as the new-for-2022 GTD Pro class for GT3 cars with all-professional driver lineups replaces GTLM.
BMW will contest the full IMSA GTD Pro campaign with two all-new M4 GT3s run by RLL, but has yet to clarify its full-season line-ups.
Five of the six drivers that were part of BMW’s assault on last year’s Michelin Endurance Cup-only programme in GTLM will return for Daytona, with Jesse Krohn, John Edwards, Augusto Farfus, Connor de Phillippi and Philipp Eng representing the Bavarian brand.
Krohn, Edwards, Farfus and de Phillippi will share the #25 car, while Eng is joined in the #24 machine by two-time DTM champion Marco Wittmann, Yelloly and van der Linde.
Wittmann made his Daytona debut with BMW Team RLL last year, while fellow DTM racer van der Linde and Aston Martin F1 simulator driver Yelloly are…
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