2017 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship - Weather Tech

The 2017 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship will be the 47th season of International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) GT Championship that traces its lineage to the 1971 IMSA GT Championship, and the fourth as the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. It will begin on January 28 with the 24 Hours of Daytona.

Classes

The class structure remained largely unchanged from 2016.

• Prototype (P)
• Prototype Challenge (PC)
• GT Le Mans (GTLM)
• GT Daytona (GTD)

Schedule

Race schedule

The 2017 schedule was released on August 5, 2016 and features twelve rounds.

Calendar changes

• The dates of the Laguna Seca and Circuit of the Americas rounds have been exchanged.
• PC has been removed from the lineup at the Long Beach, Lime Rock and Laguna Seca rounds in what is intended to be the final season for the class.
• GTD has been added to the lineup at Long Beach.

Entries

Prototype

• The Prototype Class is made up of LMP2 cars both in LMP2 trim with the ACO specification Gibson V8 engine, and in Daytona Prototype International (DPi) trim, where manufacturers are allowed to use certain body panels designed to reflect the automaker's design language, and run their own engines. Mazda (Riley Technologies), Cadillac (Dallara), and Nissan (ONROAK) will run chassis from the respective manufacturers featuring manufacturer-specific bodywork.

Prototype Challenge

• All teams in Prototype Challenge field an Oreca FLM09 with a LS3 6.2 L V8 engine.

GT Le Mans

GT Daytona

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