Bourdais Added to Ganassi Lineup for Rolex 24 At Daytona
Bourdais, who competes in the Verizon IndyCar Series with KV Racing Technology and owns 34 career Indy car wins, will join American Joey Hand and German Dirk Muller in the No. 66 Ford GT. German Stefan Mucke will be paired with Australian and long-time Indy car driver Ryan Briscoe and England's Richard Westbrook in the No. 67 Ford GT. The two cars will compete in the GT Le Mans category.
Ford created the all-new iteration of the iconic GT to mark the 50th anniversary of the company's 1-2-3 sweep of the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans with the Ford GT40. Ford started its march to Le Mans 50 years ago with a win at the Rolex 24 At Daytona that included Indy car great Lloyd Ruby as one of the drivers.
The Ganassi team, which has won the Daytona 24-hour race a record six times, announced last week that reigning Verizon IndyCar Series champion Scott Dixon and Ganassi INDYCAR teammate Tony Kanaan will return to defend their 2015 Rolex 24 win in the No. 02 Ganassi
Ford EcoBoost Prototype. Dixon and Kanaan will again team with their NASCAR stablemates, Jamie McMurray and Kyle Larson.
"We're proud to have the defending Prototype champions from last year, along with the excitement worldwide with the reintroduction of the Ford GT," said team owner Chip Ganassi. "I think we've built a very strong effort for the 2016 race in the Prototype class, which gives us two more solid chances to get to victory lane."
Others scheduled to drive in the Rolex 24 include Verizon IndyCar Series drivers Mikhail Aleshin, Townsend Bell, Ryan Briscoe, Jack Hawksworth, Ryan Hunter-Reay, Simon Pagenaud, Spencer Pigot and Graham Rahal and Mazda Road to Indy drivers Jose Gutierrez and Sean Rayhall.