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Indy Nxt star Nolan Siegel and FIA Formula 3 Championship race-winner Jonny Edgar will team up together to race in this year’s Daytona 24 Hours.
The pair have been signed by Sean Creech Motorsport to race a Ligier JS P217 in IMSA’s LMP2 class which they will share with Lance Willsey and three-time overall Daytona 24H winner and two-time IMSA champion Joao Barbosa.
Siegel came third in the Indy Nxt standings last year as a rookie and is already confirmed to be continuing in the series with HMD Motorsports, while Edgar spent three seasons in FIA F3 and started to look at moving into endurance racing last summer. He made his sportscar debut in the 2023 British GT finale, driving a Garage 59-run McLaren 720S GT3 Evo.
Another driver recently announced as joining the Daytona 24H grid is Clement Novalak, who has signed with LMP2 team Inter Europol by PR1/Mathiasen Motorsport. He is also in a four-driver entry, with one of his team-mates being former Vanwall driver and 2016 Formula V8 3.5 champion Tom Dillmann.
Novalak won the 2019 BRDC British F3 title, came third in the 2021 FIA F3 Championship and took his first Formula 2 win en route to 17th in the standings last year. He will contest all of IMSA’s Endurance Cup races with Inter Europol, and do a full European Le Mans Series campaign where he will share his car with FIA F3 graduate Ollie Gray and one other driver.
“I’m thrilled to be racing this year at the Daytona 24H in IMSA with Inter Europol,” said Novalak.
“It was amazing to test with them last year for my first time on American soil, and I’m really looking forward to racing with them. I’ve matched well with the boys and girls over at IEC/PR1, and they’ve really helped me out in getting comfortable with the car, so I can’t wait to be back in the car.”
Gray became a Williams junior in March 2022 after coming seventh in British Formula 4 and 15th in F4 United Arab Emirates, and with his Formula 1 backing he was able to move to Rodin Carlin. He was runner-up in the 2022 British F4 season, then 28th in the FIA F3 Championship with the team last year.
“I’m very excited to be joining Inter Europol for the 2024 ELMS season,” said Gray. “They’ve been very successful in the past, winning Le Mans in 2023, which is an amazing achievement, and I’m super excited to get going in this new chapter of my career.”
IndyCar-bound reigning ELMS champion Kyffin Simpson – who came 10th in Indy Nxt last year – has added the Daytona 24H to his 2024 schedule. He will race for DragonSpeed.
In the World Endurance Championship’s new LMGT3 class, replacing the long-running GTE category, Auto Sport Promotion Team has signed 2021 French F4 champion and 2023 Eurocup-3 champion Esteban Masson. He will share a Lexus RC F GT3 with two-time WEC champion Jose Maria Lopez.