Hartley, who clinched his fourth World Endurance Championship title final weekend in Bahrain, will group up with Filipe Albuquerque and Ricky Taylor in WTRAndretti’s #10 Acura ARX-06, whereas Herta will slot in beside Louis Deletraz and Jordan Taylor within the group’s second GTP entry subsequent 12 months.
Each Hartley and Herta will get to compete in all 5 Michelin Endurance Cup rounds subsequent 12 months, with the extra drivers for the Daytona 24 Hours to be introduced within the coming weeks.
Hartley has already made two IMSA prime class appearances for WTR, showing at Petit Le Mans in 2022 earlier than making a second outing at Daytona earlier this 12 months.
The Kiwi can also be an general race winner in IMSA, having scored a shock victory at Street Atlanta in 2017 when he joined Ryan Dalziel and Scott Sharp in an Excessive Pace Motorsport-entered Nissan Onroak DPi.
Hartley will mix his IMSA enduro programme with a full-season drive in WEC’s Hypercar class subsequent 12 months, the place he’s once more anticipated to race the #8 Toyota GR010 HYBRID with team-mates Ryo Hirakawa and Sebastien Buemi.
Hartley mentioned: “I actually loved my time with WTRAndretti at Petit final 12 months and Daytona this 12 months, so I jumped on the alternative to compete within the endurance races in 2024 when Wayne [Taylor] referred to as me.
“WTRAndretti is aware of methods to win and going to a two-car group will strengthen the entire operation even additional.”
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#10 Wayne Taylor Racing Acura ARX-05 Acura DPi: Ricky Taylor, Filipe Albuquerque, Brendon Hartley
Herta, in the meantime, is a race winner in IMSA in each GTLM and LMP2 lessons, and made his top-class bow earlier this 12 months at Daytona with BMW.
He has spent nearly all of his burgeoning IndyCar profession with Andretti, which joined forces with WTR at first of this 12 months to tackle an expanded grid within the rebranded GTP class.
“It’s tremendous thrilling to hitch such a prestigious group like WTRAndretti for the endurance occasions,” mentioned Herta.
“They’ve proven how profitable they are often prior to now and I’m wanting ahead to hopefully including to that!”
WTRAndretti will broaden to a second Acura in IMSA subsequent 12 months, successfully taking on the entry run by Meyer Shank Racing.
Deletraz was the group’s third driver this 12 months, whereas Jordan Taylor rejoins the outfit with which he received the IMSA DPi title in 2017 earlier than embarking on a profitable spell with Corvette Racing.
The outfit was runner-up at Daytona within the final two years, ending behind MSR on each events. It final received the Floridian endurance basic in 2021 with Albuquerque, Taylor, Helio Castroneves and Alexander Rossi.
“It’s thrilling that we’ve managed to get the providers of Brendon Hartley once more and Colton Herta as our third drivers who might be doing the IMEC,” mentioned group proprietor Wayne Taylor.
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Colton Herta, Andretti Autosport w/ Curb-Agajanian Honda
“Brendon has pushed for us earlier than, and we’ve bought to know him rather well.
“Clearly, Colton is part of the Andretti World group which opened the door for us with him.
“He’s received Daytona in a GT automobile and drove a LMDh automobile this 12 months and did a extremely good job. I’m actually enthusiastic about having each Brendon and Colton on board.”