Dane Cameron's Next Stop "Very Likely" with AO Racing and Spike

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As teams continue to fill out their driver lineups for the 2025 season, there are plenty of names still on the market, and some of those drivers are multiple-time champions.

Pipo Derani is one of those multi-time champ drivers, and Dane Cameron is another. The 36-year-old Cameron is fresh off a GTP title with the No. 7 Porsche Penske Motorsport 963, and in the aftermath of winning that title alongside co-driver Felipe Nasr, Cameron was shuffled out of the Porsche stable in favor of Nick Tandy as PPM made a host of changes to both their IMSA and WEC lineups.

There hadn't been much word on who will secure Cameron's services, that is up until now. In an article posted to Racer.com, Marshall Pruett spoke with Cameron on the situation he's facing with being a free agent immediately after battling for one of the preeminent championships in all of sportscar racing. Through the dialogue he had with Cameron, Pruett not-so-subtly foreshadows that Cameron's next likely destination is none other than AO Racing - and no, not with Rex in GTD Pro - but instead with 'Spike' in LMP2.

Cameron is currently in Bahrain testing with AO by TF Sport as they take laps around the track as part of the WEC's Rookie Test before the season finale on Saturday. AO joined up with TF Sport in support to run an LMP2 entry in the European Le Mans series for the 2024 season and wouldn't you know it they went ahead and won the whole damn thing just over a week ago. 

  
As Pruett details further in his story, team co-founders PJ Hyett and Gunnar Jeanette haven't revealed their plans for the 2025 season, and as AO's success and popularity explodes following the Rexy/Roxy/Spike liveries, a GTD Pro championship and now a ELMS triumph, could either Hyett or Jeanette be looking to fall back from a full-time driving role and yield that spot to a driver of immense talents such as Cameron?

If AO can somehow snap Cameron away from the top level of prototype racing to get behind the wheel of their own prototype machine it would A) be a huge shot in the arm to an already insanely-competitive class for the upcoming season and B) give Spike and AO Racing a huge advantage against said competition in a quest to win it all in IMSA in 2025. 

Do you think it's possible for Cameron to land with AO Racing? Comment below. 

(photo credit  - Motorsport Media Hub)

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