Newgarden will share the #7 Porsche 963 LMDh automobile with Matt Campbell and Felipe Nasr within the IMSA season-finale at Highway Atlanta on October 14.
It follows Newgarden’s maiden IMSA outing on this yr’s Rolex 24 at Daytona, the place he drove an Oreca 07 entered by Tower Motorsport to fifth in school alongside fellow IndyCar ace Scott McLaughlin, Kyffin Simpson and John Farano.
Newgarden, who has scored his IndyCar titles and his sole Indy 500 triumph with the Penske squad that has partnered with Porsche for its works LMDh program, has publicly acknowledged his want to compete on the Le Mans 24 Hours sooner or later with the revered German marque.
He examined Porsche’s first prototype racer because the legendary 919 Hybrid at Highway America in June.
“I’ve quite a lot of respect and admiration for each the Penske and Porsche manufacturers, and the mix between the 2 by means of Porsche Penske Motorsport is a dream state of affairs for any racing automobile driver and is an absolute honor to be part of,” mentioned Newgarden.
“Watching the devoted groups construct this program from the bottom up over the past couple of years has been thrilling to observe, and seeing each Porsche 963 get wins this yr and compete for championships reveals that each one the exhausting work has paid off.
“My objective is so as to add to this system and assist help the super efforts that Porsche Penske Motorsport have put in place. With some luck, I’m positive we will flip effort into outcomes collectively.”
#6 Crew Penske Porsche 963: Nick Tandy, Mathieu Jaminet
Photograph by: Jake Galstad / Motorsport Images
Porsche Penske Motorsport additionally introduced that Laurens Vanthoor, who’s a part of its full-season World Endurance Championship programme, will be a part of Nick Tandy and Mathieu Jaminet within the sister #6 automobile.
This might be Vanthoor’s first IMSA outing of 2023 since he took a GTD Professional win in a Pfaff Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R at Sebring in March.
Vanthoor, together with Andre Lotterer and Kevin Estre, guided Porsche to what has been its solely podium to date in WEC 2023 at Portimao.
“I’m actually excited to compete with the group’s IMSA program and assist them wrap up their season, as they try to attain each the group and manufacture championships,” mentioned the Belgian.
“I really feel like my expertise on the observe will assist, and dealing intently with Nick, Mathieu and the whole group will assist myself achieve much more perspective of the general group as we wrap up the WEC season in Bahrain at first of October.”
Tandy and Jaminet are at the moment Porsche’s lead representatives within the GTP drivers’ standings in fourth place, 98 factors down on Wayne Taylor Racing Acura duo Filipe Albuquerque and Ricky Taylor.
Campbell and Nasr sit seventh within the standings following their maiden GTP victory final day out at Highway Atlanta, which was Porsche’s second win of the season following Tandy and Jaminet’s breakthrough triumph at Lengthy Seaside.
“Porsche Penkse Motorsport has chosen so as to add Laurens Vanthoor and Josef Newgarden to our Petit Le Mans line up,“ mentioned Managing Director, Jonathan Diuguid.
“Laurens has raced at Highway Atlanta within the Porsche 911 RSR and he’ll be capable of add his expertise from racing within the WEC for PPM.
“Josef brings a special dynamic as this yr’s Indianapolis 500 winner, it is going to be one thing very thrilling for the group in addition to himself.
“Josef has elevated his publicity to sportscar racing already in 2023 with a check within the Team Penske LMP2, in addition to raced in Daytona in 2023.
“As well as, he received his first publicity to the 963 in early June at Highway America. With a number of testing days for the group at Highway Atlanta, we’re assured that each Laurens and Josef can be totally ready to ship for the group and have a Positive end result within the closing race of the season.”