Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA has unveiled the livery that will adorn its pair of third-generation V-Series.R prototypes in the FIA World Endurance Championship’s headlining Hypercar category in 2025.
For the first time, there will be two permanent Cadillac entries on the grid in FIA WEC this season, following the American manufacturer’s tie-up with experienced and much-decorated British outfit JOTA Sport – winner of the most recent two FIA World Cups for Hypercar Teams.
The alliance has created Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA, with a six-strong line-up on the driving front composed of 2009 Formula 1 World Champion Jenson Button, Will Stevens and Norman Nato – all of whom competed for JOTA in 2024 – alongside Cadillac regulars Alex Lynn, Earl Bamber and four-time Champ Car Champion Sébastien Bourdais. The exact composition of the two pairings will be announced in due course.
In the meantime, the wraps have come off the #12 and #38 race cars at Cadillac City Paris – the iconic marque’s flagship EV store and experience centre, located in the heart of the French capital opposite the Opéra Garnier – in the presence of guests from parent company General Motors, Cadillac Racing, JOTA Sport, FIA WEC, the FIA and the Automobile Club de l’Ouest, organiser of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
For more than a century, Cadillac has used motorsport as a testbed to transfer knowledge and technology between its race cars and road-going vehicles, with the brand’s Hypercars incorporating key Cadillac V-Series production car design elements such as vertical lighting and floating blades.
The manufacturer has doubled its FIA WEC factory programme effort for its third campaign of Hypercar competition, as JOTA Sport becomes a works team for the first time in the championship, having stunned by racing to an historic maiden outright victory for a privateer squad in the series in the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps last May.
The forthcoming campaign will get underway with the Qatar 1812km on 28 February – the first of eight rounds on the 2025 FIA WEC schedule.
