2016 – 2026 IMSA GT3

Greetings, everyone, and happy Monday!

It's been a busy week, with the World Endurance Championship season finale in Monza, which is every bit as magical as you think it would be. That track has captured my heart on a level equal to Spa, Watkins Glen, and Road America. History lingers in every pebble. 

To celebrate such a fantastic race, I wanted to give everyone a little gift. One of the many spreadsheets that I keep is a results page of sorts for every car in the GTD category of IMSA. Since we’ve now had a full 11 years of these magnificent beauties on the racetracks around North America, how about a little progress report?

              I do not have any GTD Pro cars counted in these statistics because until fairly recently, that class did not have as sizable participation as GTD, and thus it would’ve skewed the numbers greatly. A top 5 finish in GTD in 2023 was an achievement with 12 cars running the full season whereas there were only 4 full-time GTD Pro entries. See what I mean? So please don’t get upset when you see numbers that don’t include your GTD Pro favorite’s achievements. Lexus in the GTD category has run 64 endurance races with only one victory. I know they’ve won endurance races in GTD Pro, but those victories are not counted for this assessment. This is GTD only. Good? Okay, let’s proceed.

 

Acura

8 cars (MSR x2, Gradient, Compass, Magnus, Hart, Rick Ware Racing, Racer’s Edge)

165 races	58 enduros
8 wins	4 wins
29 podiums	8 podiums
32 DNFs	12 DNFs

 

Aston Martin

9 cars (Heart of Racing x2, TF Sport, AMR, TRG, Magnus, Andretti, Flying Lizard, van der Steur/Car Blanche)

120 races	68 enduros
9 wins	4 wins
32 podiums	18 podiums
26 DNFs	20 DNFs

 

Audi

12 cars (NTE Sport, Carbahn, Hardpoint, WRT, Starworks, Moorespeed, Land, Magnus, Alex Job Racing, Stevenson x2, Flying Lizard Motorsport)

105 races	49 enduros
4 wins	2 wins
17 podiums	8 podiums
11 DNFs	8 DNFs

 

BMW

3 cars (Turner x2, Paul Miller Racing)

160 races	65 enduros
20 wins	4 wins
48 podiums	16 podiums
23 DNFs	9 DNFs

 

Corvette

4 cars (AWA x2 [now 13 Autosport], DXDT, DragonSpeed)

54 races	31 enduros
1 wins	1 wins
3 podiums	2 podiums
10 DNFs	8 DNFs

 

Ferrari

13 cars (Scuderia Corsa x2, AF Corse, Via Italy, Spirit of Race, Risi Competizione, Squadra Corsa, Cetilar, Triarsi Competizone x2, Conquest, Inception, DragonSpeed)

169 races	124 enduros
10 wins	9 wins
41 podiums	24 podiums
38 DNFs	36 DNFs

 

Ford

3 cars (Proton, Gradient, Myers Riley)

37 races	20 enduros
0 wins	0 wins
0 podiums	0 podiums
12 DNFs	13 DNFs

 

Lamborghini

23 cars (Paul Miller Racing, Grasser x2, Magnus, Gear, PPM, EBI, Change x2, DAC, Konrad x2, Dream, O’Gara, Carbahn, NTE, TR3, Iron Dames, Iron Lynx, Pfaff, WTR, USRT/Forte)

252 races	131 enduros
13 wins	6 wins
44 podiums	17 podiums
58 DNFs	43 DNFs

 

Lexus

2 cars (3GT/Vasser Sullivan)

171 races	64 enduros
13 wins	1 win
37 podiums	7 podiums
25 DNFs	16 DNFs

 

McLaren

3 cars (Compass, Inception, Crucial)

45 races	16 enduros
0 wins	0 wins
7 podiums	3 podiums
12 DNFs	4 DNFs

 

Mercedes AMG

9 cars (Allegra, SunEnergy, Riley, P1, LoneStar, WeatherTech, Korthoff, Winward, O’Gara)

225 races	105 enduros
22 wins	10 wins
44 podiums	17 podiums
40 DNFs	26 DNFs

 

Porsche

26 cars (Hardpoint x2, Pfaff, TGM, Wright x2, Black Swan, Park Place, NGT, Manthey, TRG, Allegra, CORE, Alex Job Racing x2, Heart of Racing, Frickadelli, GMG, Andretti, MDK, AO, Iron Dames, KellyMoss x2, Muehlner, RS1)

300 races	141 enduros
17 wins	6 wins
52 podiums	23 podiums
34 DNFs	21 DNFs

 

 Full Season

Endurance

Best Full Season Car for Wins – BMW

Best Full Season Car for Podiums – BMW

Best Full Season Car for Seeing the Finish – Audi

 

Best Car to Win an Endurance Race – Mercedes

Best Car to Get a Podium in an Endurance Race – Aston Martin

Best Car to Finish an Endurance Race - BMW

We'll be returning to the driver assessments soon, with GTD Pro coming next. I've written it and now get to edit all 9 pages of my ramblings before putting it out to the world. GTD is still to come, but I've already done the BoP article. That's the cherry on the ice cream sundae, though, so you'll have to be patient for that and join me along the ride to get there!

Enjoy your Monday and you'll be hearing from me again soon :)