Dixon will join Sebastien Bourdais and Renger van der Zande in Chip Ganassi Racing’s full-time 2023 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship entry, as the Cadillac V-LMDh makes its racing debut in IMSA’s new GTP class. The sister car, which will compete in the seven World Endurance Championship rounds, will be driven by Earl Bamber, Alex Lynn and Richard Westbrook.
Meanwhile Action Express Racing’s Cadillac is to be raced by Pipo Derani and Alexander Sims throughout the IMSA season, but today’s announcement confirms that Jack Aitken will share driving duties for January’s around-the-clock classic on the 2.56-mile, 12-turn road course at Daytona International Speedway.
Aitken was a race winner in GP3 and Formula 2, and was the Renault F1’s test driver before becoming reserve driver for the Williams F1 team for the past three seasons. In that capacity he made his grand prix debut with Williams at Sakhir in 2020, when the car’s usual occupant George Russell had to sub for the COVID-afflicted world champion Lewis Hamilton.
In 2022, Aitken has competed in a Lamborghini Huracan in the ADAC GT Masters and in Racing Team Turkey’s LMP2 Oreca in the European Le Mans Series, where he scored three Pro-Am wins and finished runner-up in the championship. The 27-year-old British-South Korean also made his Le Mans debut this year, partnering with Sophia Florsch and John Falb at Algarve Pro Racing.
AXR team manager Gary Nelson said: “All of us at Action Express Racing are thrilled to have Jack join our team as our endurance driver. We have won six IMSA Endurance Championships and five IMSA overall championships in the past nine years. Strong runs throughout the endurance events are critical for both championships.
“We are expecting great things in 2023 and with Jack’s help we can’t wait to get started on our sixth overall and seventh endurance championships.”
Aitken declared: “The prospect of working with Action Express and Cadillac on the V-LMDh program had me gripped as soon as it became a possibility and working to make that a reality over the past weeks has only solidified my opinion that we’ll be taking on a fantastic calendar of events with an extremely motivated and top-level crew.
“It will be a true pleasure to represent a brand like Cadillac at a time when the endurance world is entering what many are calling a golden era of sportscar racing. I cannot wait to start work with everyone, including my teammates…
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