In his first season in IMSA’s prime class since 2019, Braun received three races within the GTP class with Meyer Shank Racing’s Acura in 2023 alongside Tom Blomqvist, together with the primary race of the brand new hybrid period at Daytona and the Petit Le Mans season finale.
Nonetheless, they misplaced the title to a 200-point deduction when the team was found to have manipulated tyre pressure data at Daytona, with Braun and Blomqvist ending up simply 22 factors down on Motion Categorical Cadillac’s champions Pipo Derani and Alexander Sims.
With MSR asserting that it would be putting its GTP programme on hiatus in 2024, Braun has reunited with the Algarve Professional Racing-run CrowdStrike operation with which he received the LMP2 professional am class on the Le Mans 24 Hours in June.
He’ll as soon as once more pair up with bronze-graded George Kurtz, Braun’s accomplice at Le Mans and for the complete GT World Problem America season which yielded the professional am title of their Riley-run GT3 Mercedes, to contest IMSA’s P2 division in 2024.
“I can’t wait to get going with CrowdStrike Racing by APR in 2024 and make a run on the LMP2 championship alongside George,” stated Braun, who received IMSA’s LMP3 title in 2022 and back-to-back LMPC crowns in 2014-15.
“The dedication and professionalism of CrowdStrike Racing is unmatched and I’m honoured to share a seat with George, who did such a improbable job in 2023.
“It certain appears to be like like LMP2 goes to be stacked with robust rivals, however we’re prepared for the problem. IMSA racing is de facto particular, and I sit up for one other season!”
Braun has a powerful monitor file within the ORECA-Gibson 07, having received twice outright in 2018 when LMP2 automobiles had been grouped collectively within the prime Prototype class with DPi equipment at Mosport and Highway America in a Core Autosport entry he shared with staff proprietor Jon Bennett.
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#04 Crowdstrike Racing by APR Oreca LMP2 07: George Kurtz, Ben Hanley, Nolan Siegel
In his and the CrowdStrike by APR staff’s first season in IMSA, Kurtz narrowly missed out on the title with Ben Hanley because the pair completed runner as much as PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports pair Ben Keating and Paul-Loup Chatin.
Kurtz and Hanley, who will race for United Autosports in IMSA subsequent yr alongside Keating, received at Watkins Glen and Petit Le Mans to safe the Michelin Endurance Cup.
Along with Matt McMurry and Esteban Gutierrez additionally they got here up simply 0.016s in need of victory at Daytona, which did not depend for factors in the direction of the P2 title.
Staff boss Stewart Cox stated: “As a staff, we’re happy with how CrowdStrike Racing by APR’s 2023 marketing campaign went, however we’re already pushing on with the intention for subsequent season being to win the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship LMP2 titles.
“We missed out on this yr’s by just a few factors and we all know precisely why, so we’ll come again with a barely amended strategy that every one the maths and knowledge says will put us in the very best place to win the general championship, and in addition defend the Michelin Endurance Cup.”