Castroneves made the remarks after bringing home the #60 Acura ARX-05 he shared with Oliver Jarvis, Tom Blomqvist and Simon Pagenaud for victory, holding off Ricky Taylor’s Wayne Taylor Racing Acura in a thrilling climax to the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship opener.
The Brazilian, who was part of WTR’s winning Rolex 24 line-up in 2021, has never tackled Le Mans in a long and illustrious career that has yielded four Indianapolis 500 wins as well as the 2020 IMSA title for Acura Team Penske, but has never made a secret of his desire to one day compete at La Sarthe.
He was linked to a potential LMP2 drive with the RLR Msport team in 2019, but this didn’t materialise.
In the winners’ press conference at Daytona on Sunday, Castroneves told team owner Mike Shank: “Mike, let’s go to Le Mans. Let’s go!”
Asked later if racing at Le Mans would be the next item to tick off on his ‘bucket list’, he said: “I’d love to. I’ve never been there. I would love to try obviously. Gotta go to…
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