Pfaff Motorsports revealed an all-new driver lineup Monday (Nov. 13) that will contest the 2024 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season in the GTD Pro class. While the Porsche 911 GT3 R as raced at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta in October is shown above, the team will field a new McLaren 720S GT3 Evo in 2024.
For the full season, the new McLaren will be driven by Oliver Jarvis and Marvin Kirchhoefer. These drivers will replace Klaus Bachler and Patrick Pilet. For the Michelin Endurance Cup races at Daytona, Sebring and Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, Jarvis and Kirchhoefer will be joined by the previously announced INDYCAR veteran James Hinchcliffe. Finally, Alexander Rossi will join the team for Daytona.
“I am really excited to be joining Pfaff Motorsports driving a McLaren 720S GT3 EVO,” Jarvis said. “The opportunity to join a proven championship-winning team and to return to IMSA full-time after winning the championship in 2022 made it an easy decision. Whilst it will be my first full season competing in {GTD Pro] in IMSA, I am relishing the opportunity together with my new teammates to fight for victories and ultimately the championship. A huge thanks to everyone at Pfaff Motorsports and McLaren for making this happen!”
Jarvis has years of IMSA experience in prototypes. Most recently, he raced full-time for Meyer Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian in 2022 in their Acura ARX-05 alongside Tom Blomqvist. The duo won two races (Daytona and Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta) and won the final DPi championship.
In GT equipment, Jarvis’ experience is fairly minimal. He has only two career GT starts in North America. The first of those came in the 2013 Rolex 24 at Daytona for Alex Job Racing. Jarvis was part of the winning GT team, which was the first-ever GT victory for Audi in Grand-Am.
This past season, Jarvis primarily raced overseas with United Autosports. Jarvis was full-time in the team’s No. 23 ORECA 07-Gibson in the FIA World Endurance Championship’s LMP2 class. He finished fifth in points with a victory at Portimao and an additional second-place finish at Spa. In addition, Jarvis raced in the European Le Mans Series. There, Jarvis won three races and finished second in the LMP2 points.
Kirchhoefer has only one career start in IMSA. That came for Inception Racing in the Rolex 24 at Daytona back in January, where he finished third in the GTD class. He is entering into his fourth year as a factory driver for…
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