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January 23, 2026Newsletter Archives

For fans of sports car racing, January only means one thing: Daytona. This weekend, the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship kicks off with the Rolex 24 At Daytona, a grueling day-long endurance race for high-tech prototype and production-based sports racing cars. It’s a long January tradition, one General Motors is thrilled to be a part of.

In IMSA’s top-level GTP class, three Cadillac V-Series.R racecars will compete for an overall win at the Rolex 24. Cadillac Racing finished out the 2025 racing season strong, and it’s looking to continue that momentum into 2026, with an updated car and a star-studded driver lineup. Read up on what’s to come from Cadillac Racing at the Rolex 24 and beyond here.

The Chevrolet Corvette has been a fan-favorite in racing for decades, and in 2026, five Corvette Z06 GT3.R race cars will hit the track across IMSA’s all-pro GTD PRO class and the Pro-Am GTD class. Corvette teams enjoyed a very successful 2025, with a GTD victory at Daytona and a sweep of GTD PRO titles, so expectations for 2026 are very high. We spoke with Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports driver Tommy Milner all about it.

Daytona wasn’t the only track on our minds this week. We also visited the Silverstone, England headquarters of the Cadillac Formula 1 Team via the What Makes Fast docuseries, seeing how the first Formula 1 car from an American automaker comes together. Cadillac Formula 1 Team driver Sergio Perez also makes an appearance on GM News in a story about a new ad campaign featuring the 2026 LYRIQ-V. 

It wasn’t all racing on GM News this week. We also featured the Cadillac Elevated Velocity concept winning the prestigious EyesOn Design award for Best Concept Car

-- Chris Perkins, writer and editor, GM News