As the freshly-formed Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA intensifies its preparations for the 2025 FIA World Endurance Championship, Earl Bamber and Alex Lynn – who have piloted the V-Series.R for the past two seasons – are bullish about the squad’s prospects.
Bamber and Lynn were joined by team-mates Sébastien Bourdais, Jenson Button, Norman Nato and Will Stevens earlier this month, for the first full-scale test under the new banner at the Circuit Paul Ricard in southern France. The three days on-track offered an opportunity for both sides of the alliance to get to know one another and begin working together – and Bamber was impressed by what he saw.
Indeed, both Cadillac Racing and Hertz Team JOTA enjoyed a strong end to the 2024 FIA WEC campaign – the American manufacturer narrowly missing out on a podium finish in Texas and placing sixth in Bahrain, where the independent British outfit was in the mix for overall victory as it buttoned up the top two spots in the final FIA World Cup for Hypercar Teams classification.
Bamber, Lynn and Stevens will warm up for the forthcoming FIA WEC campaign with an outing in the V-Series.R in next month’s Rolex 24 At Daytona – the opening round of North America’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.
