BMW M Motorsport has finalized their driver lineups for M4 GT3 EVO entries in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship as well as the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC).
In IMSA, the teams will remain the same. Paul Miller Racing will compete in GTD Pro, but with a single car, the #1 M4 GT3 EVO. Neil Verhagen and Connor De Phillippi will co-drive for the full season, with Max Hesse joining for the longer endurance races and Dan Harper joining as a fourth driver for the Rolex 24 at Daytona.
Turner Motorsport will return to the IMSA GTD class with Robby Foley and Patrick Gallagher in for the full season.
Verhagen was with Paul Miller Racing for the full 2025 season, and De Phillippi moves from being third driver for the endurance races to a full season in 2025. Madison Snow will not be with Paul Miller Racing in 2026. Snow was part of the team nearly continuously since 2016. He won two championships with them, including the 2023 GTD championship with BMW. Snow will be driving an Aston Martin at Daytona, though his full season plans are not yet announced.
Turner Motorsport also returns to IMSA in the GTD class, with Robby Foley and Patrick Gallagher once again taking on the full season in the #96 M4 GT3 EVO. Francis Selldorff will replace Jake Walker as third driver for endurance races. Walker, who also drove for Turner in the VP Racing SportsCar Challenge championship in 2025, will be driving a Ford Mustang GT3 in IMSA in 2026. Selldorff drove for Turner in the Michelin Pilot Challenge series in an M4 GT4 EVO in 2025, and 2026 will be his first in a GT3 car. Works driver Jens Klingmann will join the #96 as a fourth driver at Daytona. Turner Motorsport will not be returning to the VP Racing SportsCar Challenge series in 2026.
Team WRT will contest the FIA WEC LMGT3 class with two cars, including one for Darren Leung, Augusto Farfus and Sean Gelael, who drove together in 2024.
In FIA WEC, Team WRT will once again field a pair of M4 GT3 EVOs in the LMGT3 class. The #69 car will be anchored by works driver Dan Harper, who drove for Paul Miller Racing in IMSA last year. He will be joined by Parker Thompson (who has driven for Lexus in IMSA the last two years) and Anthony McIntosh. The #32 M4 GT3 EVO will be driven by Augusto Farfus, Sean Gelael and Darren Leung, a trio that drove together for WRT in 2024 and had two podium finishes. A notable change to the FIA WEC program for 2026 is that Valentino Rossi will no longer be competing in the series, though we do expect that he’ll be driving for BMW in the GT World Challenge Europe championship.
The IMSA season opens with the Rolex 24 at Daytona on the weekend of January 23rd-25th. The FIA WEC season opens at Qatar on the weekend of March 26th-28th.
—David Haueter
[Photos courtesy LAT Images, BMW]
