Hertz Team Jota Finalize WEC Lineup For the No. 12 and No. 38

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Being the last team on the grid to finalize their lineups for 2025, Cadillac Hertz Team Jota finally revealed who will be racing where in the new upcoming season.

What we already knew was who the six-man squad was going to be, and now we know where each trio of drivers will settle in once the season kicks off later this month in Qatar.

Alex Lyn, Norman Nato and Will Stevens will pilot the No. 12, while the No. 38 will see an over-loaded bunching of talent in Earl Bamber, Sebastian Bourdais and Jenson Button linking up to duke it out on track.

It's a stout offering for a team that has loads of previous success but will be undertaking the challenge of making the American manufacturer a championship contender on the world endurance stage. For their first season in the WEC with Cadillac, HTJ will aim to bring home some hardware for Cadillac after they've struggled to fight at the top of the table with a 7th place finish in 2024 and a 4th place finish (out of seven manufacturers) in 2023 in the first year of the new Hypercar regulations.

If any team can deliver race-winning results that build into championship contention it'd be Jota Sport. The multiple-time champions are coming off a World Cup-winning campaign in the privateer ranks from last season and they've taken on the Cadillac experiment after their one year running Porsche 963s. It's a big year every manufacturer not named Toyota, Porsche and Ferrari as the Axis of Racing have posted the best results by far in the first two seasons of this new era of endurance motorsport. The likes of Cadillac, BMW, Peugeot and the incoming Aston Martin will have to show that they have what it takes to challenge for not only the Drivers' title but the Manufacturer championship as well, something that will take all hands on deck in what will prove to be a massively competitive battle throughout the year.

Give it 10 more days and we'll be there getting our first impressions.

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