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The 2024 IMSA SportsCar Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the 2024 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship) is a planned motor racing championship, set to be the 54th racing season sanctioned by the International Motor Sports Association, which traces its lineage back to the 1971 IMSA GT Championship. It will also be the eleventh season of the IMSA SportsCar Championship since the merger between the American Le Mans Series and the Rolex Sports Car Series in 2014, and the ninth under the sponsorship of WeatherTech. Following a change in class structure for the 2024 season, the IMSA SportsCar Championship is poised to see a major expansion of its full-time grid across all of its classes.

Classes

IMSA Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) (LMDh and LMH)
Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2)
GT Daytona Pro (GTD Pro)
GT Daytona (GTD)

At the end of the 2023 season, IMSA discontinued the involvement of the Le Mans Prototype 3 (LMP3) class from the main championship. The class was originally introduced in 2021 as a means of bolstering the overall grid size, which had seen a record-low 38 starting cars in the 2020 24 Hours of Daytona. IMSA cited the growth of the GTP class as a contributing factor to dropping LMP3 for 2024 onwards, in addition to growth in other classes.^[1]

GTP is the flagship class of the championship, and consists of two sister technical regulations: LMDh (Le Mans Daytona hybrid), and LMH (Le Mans Hypercar). The former regulation allows developing a bespoke design from a base chassis with a specification hybrid system on all cars, with freedom on aerodynamics and engine configuration. The latter regulation allows bespoke hybrid designs, and offers more design freedom in exchange for elevated development costs.

The GTP class is made of the same framework that comprises the Hypercar class of the FIA World Endurance Championship, in accordance with the collaborative alliance between IMSA and the French racing organizers ACO, which resulted in the convergence of the two organizer's top class regulations.^[2]

Schedule

The provisional schedule was released on August 4 2023, and features 11 rounds.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Race is part of the Michelin Endurance Cup

Rnd.	Race	Length	Classes	Circuit	Location	Date
1	Rolex 24 at Daytona	24 hours	All^{[N 1]}	Daytona International Speedway	Daytona Beach, Florida	January 27–28
2	Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring	12 hours	All	Sebring International Raceway	Sebring, Florida	March 16
3	Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach	1 hour, 40 minutes	GTP, GTD	Long Beach Street Circuit	Long Beach, California	April 20
4	Motul Course de Monterey	2 hours, 40 minutes	GTP, GTD Pro, GTD	WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca	Monterey, California	May 12
5	Detroit Grand Prix	1 hour, 40 minutes	GTP, GTD Pro	Detroit street circuit	Detroit, Michigan	June 1
6	Sahlen's Six Hours of The Glen	6 hours	All	Watkins Glen International	Watkins Glen, New York	June 30
7	Chevrolet Grand Prix	2 hours, 40 minutes	LMP2, GTD Pro, GTD	Canadian Tire Motorsport Park	Bowmanville, Ontario	July 14
8	IMSA SportsCar Weekend	2 hours, 40 minutes	All	Road America	Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin	August 4
9	Michelin GT Challenge at VIR	2 hours, 40 minutes	GTD Pro, GTD	Virginia International Raceway	Alton, Virginia	August 25
10	IMSA Battle on the Bricks	6 hours	All	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	Speedway, Indiana	September 22
11	Motul Petit Le Mans	10 hours	All	Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta	Braselton, Georgia	October 12

Lime Rock Park was dropped from the calendar. The track had been a part of the championship since 2015.^[3]
The Michelin Endurance Cup expanded to 5 rounds, with the event at Indianapolis Motor Speedway transforming from a sprint race in 2023 to a six-hour endurance race for 2024.^[3]

Notes

^ The LMP2 and LMP3 class will only score points towards the Michelin Endurance Cup.

FULL OFFICIAL 2024 HYPER GTP CALENDAR

Rnd	Race	Series	Circuit	Location	Date
	Roar Before the 24	IMSA	Daytona International Speedway	Daytona Beach, Florida, United States	21 January
1	Rolex 24 at Daytona	IMSA	Daytona International Speedway	Daytona Beach, Florida, United States	27-28 January
	WEC Prologue	WEC	Losail International Circuit	Lusail, Qatar	24/25 February
2	Qatar 1812 km	WEC	Losail International Circuit	Lusail, Qatar	2 March
3	Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring	IMSA	Sebring International Raceway	Sebring, Florida, United States	16 March
4	Grand Prix of Long Beach	IMSA	Long Beach Street Circuit	Long Beach, California, United States	20 April
5	6 Hours of Imola	WEC	Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari	Portimão, Imola, Emilia-Romagna, Italy	21 April
6	6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps	WEC	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	Spa, Belgium	11 May
7	Motul Course de Monterey	IMSA	WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca	Monterey, California, United States	12 May
8	Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix	IMSA	Streets of Detroit	Detroit, Michigan, United States	1 June
9	24 Hours of Le Mans	WEC	Circuit de la Sarthe	Le Mans, France	15–16 June
10	Sahlen's Six Hours of The Glen	IMSA	Watkins Glen International	Watkins Glen, New York, United States	23 June
11	6 Hours of São Paulo	WEC	Interlagos Circuit	São Paulo, Brazil	14 July
12	IMSA Sportscar Weekend	IMSA	Road America	Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, United States	4 August
13	Lone Star Le Mans	WEC	Circuit of the Americas	Austin, Texas, United States	1 September
14	6 Hours of Fuji	WEC	Fuji Speedway	Oyama, Shizuoka, Japan	15 September
15	Tirerack.com Battle On The Bricks	IMSA	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	Speedway, Indiana, United States	22 September
16	Motul Petit Le Mans	IMSA	Road Atlanta	Braselton, Georgia, United States	12 October
17	8 Hours of Bahrain	WEC	Bahrain International Circuit	Sakhir, Bahrain	2 November