The 2025 SportsCar Grand Prix (formally known as the 2025 Motul SportsCar Grand Prix) was a sports car race held at Road America near Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, on August 3, 2025. It was the eighth round of the 2025 IMSA SportsCar Championship.

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International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) president John Doonan confirmed the race was part of the schedule of the 2025 IMSA SportsCar Championship (IMSA SCC) in March 2024. It was the twelfth consecutive time the IMSA SCC hosted a race at Road America. The 2025 SportsCar Grand Prix was the eighth of eleven scheduled sports car races of 2025 by IMSA. The race was held at the fourteen-turn Road America on August 3, 2025.

Standings before the race Preceding the event, Matt Campbell and Mathieu Jaminet led the GTD Drivers' Championship with 2028 points, 12 ahead of Porsche team-mates Felipe Nasr and Nick Tandy. Nick Yelloly and Renger van der Zande sat in third, 262 points behind Campbell and Jaminet. Dan Goldburg led the LMP2 Drivers' Championship with 1375 points, 78 points ahead of second-placed Dane Cameron and P. J. Hyett. The GTD Pro Drivers' Championship was led by Antonio García and Alexander Sims with 1942 points, 39 points ahead of Klaus Bachler and Laurin Heinrich in second. Albert Costa sat in third, a further 14 points behind. Philip Ellis and Russell Ward were in the lead of the GTD Drivers' Championship with 1902 points. Jack Hawksworth and Parker Thompson sat in second, 93 points behind Ellis and Ward. Casper Stevenson rounded out the top three, a further 31 points behind. Porsche Penske Motorsport, United Autosports USA, Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports, and Winward Racing lead their respective Teams' Championships, with Porsche, Chevrolet, and Mercedes-AMG leading their respective Manufacturers' Championships.

Entry list

The entry list was published on July 23, 2025, and featured 49 entries: 11 in GTP, 14 in LMP2, 10 in GTD Pro, and 14 in GTD. On July 31, 2025, Korthoff Competition Motors announced the withdrawal of their No. 32 Mercedes, which was initially entered for Daniel Morad and Mike Skeen, bringing the total amount of entries down to 48.

Entrant Car Driver 1 Driver 2 GTP (Grand Touring Prototype) (11 entries) 6 Porsche Penske Motorsport Porsche 963 Matt Campbell Mathieu Jaminet 7 Porsche Penske Motorsport Porsche 963 Felipe Nasr Nick Tandy 10 Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac V-Series.R Filipe Albuquerque Ricky Taylor 23 Aston Martin THOR Team Aston Martin Valkyrie Roman De Angelis Ross Gunn 24 BMW M Team RLL BMW M Hybrid V8 Philipp Eng Dries Vanthoor 25 BMW M Team RLL BMW M Hybrid V8 Sheldon van der Linde Marco Wittmann 31 Cadillac Whelen Cadillac V-Series.R Jack Aitken Earl Bamber 40 Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac V-Series.R Louis Delétraz Jordan Taylor 60 Acura Meyer Shank Racing w/ Curb-Agajanian Acura ARX-06 Tom Blomqvist Colin Braun 85 JDC–Miller MotorSports Porsche 963 Gianmaria Bruni Tijmen van der Helm 93 Acura Meyer Shank Racing w/ Curb-Agajanian Acura ARX-06 Nick Yelloly Renger van der Zande LMP2 (Le Mans Prototype 2) (14 entries) 04 CrowdStrike Racing by APR Oreca 07-Gibson Malthe Jakobsen George Kurtz 2 United Autosports USA Oreca 07-Gibson Phil Fayer Ben Hanley 8 Tower Motorsports Oreca 07-Gibson Sébastien Bourdais John Farano 11 TDS Racing Oreca 07-Gibson Mikkel Jensen Steven Thomas 18 Era Motorsport Oreca 07-Gibson Tobias Lütke Kakunoshin Ohta 22 United Autosports USA Oreca 07-Gibson Dan Goldburg Paul di Resta 43 Inter Europol Competition Oreca 07-Gibson Jeremy Clarke Connor De Phillippi 52 PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports Oreca 07-Gibson Benjamin Pedersen Naveen Rao 61 Team Tonis Oreca 07-Gibson Matthew Brabham Tõnis Kasemets 73 Pratt Miller Motorsports Oreca 07-Gibson Chris Cumming Pietro Fittipaldi 74 Riley Oreca 07-Gibson Felipe Fraga Gar Robinson 79 JDC–Miller MotorSports Oreca 07-Gibson Scott Andrews Gerry Kraut 88 AF Corse Oreca 07-Gibson Luis Pérez Companc Matías Pérez Companc 99 AO Racing Oreca 07-Gibson Dane Cameron P. J. Hyett GTD Pro (GT Daytona Pro) (10 entries) 1 Paul Miller Racing BMW M4 GT3 Evo Madison Snow Neil Verhagen 3 Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R Antonio García Alexander Sims 4 Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R Nicky Catsburg Tommy Milner 9 Pfaff Motorsports Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo 2 Andrea Caldarelli Marco Mapelli 14 Vasser Sullivan Racing Lexus RC F GT3 Ben Barnicoat Aaron Telitz 48 Paul Miller Racing BMW M4 GT3 Evo Dan Harper Max Hesse 64 Ford Multimatic Motorsports Ford Mustang GT3 Sebastian Priaulx Mike Rockenfeller 65 Ford Multimatic Motorsports Ford Mustang GT3 Christopher Mies Frédéric Vervisch 77 AO Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) Klaus Bachler Laurin Heinrich 81 DragonSpeed Ferrari 296 GT3 Giacomo Altoè Albert Costa GTD (GT Daytona) (13 entries) 021 Triarsi Competizione Ferrari 296 GT3 Kenton Koch Onofrio Triarsi 12 Vasser Sullivan Racing Lexus RC F GT3 Jack Hawksworth Parker Thompson 13 AWA Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R Matt Bell Orey Fidani 27 Heart of Racing Team Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 Evo Tom Gamble Casper Stevenson 34 Conquest Racing Ferrari 296 GT3 Manny Franco Daniel Serra 36 DXDT Racing Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R Alec Udell Robert Wickens 45 Wayne Taylor Racing Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo 2 Danny Formal Trent Hindman 57 Winward Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo Philip Ellis Russell Ward 66 Gradient Racing Ford Mustang GT3 Jenson Altzman Robert Megennis 70 Inception Racing Ferrari 296 GT3 Brendan Iribe Frederik Schandorff 78 Forte Racing Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo 2 Mario Farnbacher Misha Goikhberg 96 Turner Motorsport BMW M4 GT3 Evo Robby Foley Patrick Gallagher 120 Wright Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) Adam Adelson Elliott Skeer Source:

Practice Two practice sessions were held preceding the start of the race on Sunday, one on Friday afternoon and one on Saturday morning. Both the session on Friday afternoon and on Saturday morning lasted 90 minutes.

Practice 1 The first practice session took place at 2:00 pm CDT on Friday. Tom Blomqvist topped the session in the No. 60 Meyer Shank Racing Acura, with a 1-minute, 51.255-second lap time. Ross Gunn was second-quickest in the No. 23 Heart of Racing Team Aston Martin, 0.073 seconds behind Blomqvist. Jack Aitken rounded out the top three in the No. 31 Cadillac Whelen. Mikkel Jensen topped the LMP2 class in the No. 11 TDS Racing Oreca, with a lap time of 1:52.781. His lap was 0.365 seconds quicker than that of second-placed Paul di Resta in the No. 22 United Autosports USA Oreca. Russell Ward set the quickest time amongst all GT cars in the No. 57 Winward Racing Mercedes-AMG, with a lap time of 2:04.991. He was 0.748 seconds quicker than Parker Thompson in the No. 12 Vasser Sullivan Racing Lexus in second. Giacomo Altoè set the quickest time in the GTD Pro class, with a 2-minute, 5.844-second lap time. Nicky Catsburg was second-quickest in the No. 4 Corvette Racing Chevrolet. The session saw two red flag stoppages. The first was caused by the No. 22 Oreca, after Dan Goldburg got trapped in the gravel. The second was caused by Phil Fayer in the sister No. 2 United Oreca, after causing a collision with the No. 021 Triarsi Competizione Ferrari.

Class Team Driver Time 1 GTP 60 Acura Meyer Shank Racing w/ Curb-Agajanian Tom Blomqvist 1:51.255 — 2 GTP 23 Aston Martin THOR Team Ross Gunn 1:51.328 +0.073 3 GTP 31 Cadillac Whelen Jack Aitken 1:51.590 +0.335Sources:

Practice 2 The second and final practice session took place at 9:05 am CDT on Saturday, and saw Dries Vanthoor topping the session in the No. 24 Team RLL BMW with a lap time of 1:49.676. He was 0.006 seconds quicker than second-placed Nick Yelloly in the No. 93 MSR Acura, with BMW team-mate Sheldon van der Linde rounding out the top three in the No. 25 BMW, 0.167 seconds behind Vanthoor. Malthe Jakobsen topped the LMP2 class in the No. 04 CrowdStrike Racing by APR Oreca, with a 1-minute, 52.823-second lap time. His lap was 0.029 seconds quicker than that of second-placed Jensen in the No. 11 Oreca, with Dane Cameron in the No. 99 AO Racing Oreca rounding out the top three. The GTD Pro class was topped by Alexander Sims in the No. 3 Chevrolet, with a lap time of 2:04.247. His lap was 0.107 seconds quicker Altoè's lap in the No. 81 Ferrari. Onofrio Triarsi topped the GTD class in the No. 021 Ferrari, with a 2-minute, 4.866-second lap time. The session saw a lengthy red flag after a collision between the No. 9 Pfaff Motorsports Lamborghini of Marco Mapelli and the No. 04 Oreca of George Kurtz.

Class Team Driver Time 1 GTP 24 BMW M Team RLL Dries Vanthoor 1:49.676 — 2 GTP 93 Acura Meyer Shank Racing w/ Curb-Agajanian Nick Yelloly 1:49.682 +0.006 3 GTP 25 BMW M Team RLL Sheldon van der Linde 1:49.843 +0.167Sources:

Qualifying Saturday's afternoon qualifying was broken into four sessions, with one session for the GTP, LMP2, GTD Pro, and GTD classes each. The rules dictated that all teams nominated a driver to qualify their cars, with the Pro-Am LMP2 class requiring a Bronze rated driver to qualify the car. The competitors' fastest lap times determined the starting order. The competitors' fastest lap times determined the starting order. IMSA then arranged the grid to put GTPs ahead of the LMP2, GTD Pro, and GTD cars.

Qualifying results Pole positions in each class are indicated in bold and with .