Looking to avenge its disqualification from the 2025 Rolex 24 At Daytona, Tower Motorsports has confirmed its full line-up for the 2026 race and the upcoming IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.
With Tower Motorsports owner/driver John Farano already set to return to drive the No. 8 ORECA 07-Gibson, so does the duo of 2014 Daytona overall winner Sébastien Bourdais and young Mexican driver Sebastian Alvarez. At Daytona, Tower Motorsports will welcome back NTT IndyCar Series driver Kyffin Simpson to the team, for the first time since 2023 when he ran the Michelin Endurance Cup and won the Twelve Hours of Sebring.
Farano, Bourdais, and Alvarez were part of the team that took the checkered flag first at Daytona, but the No. 8 car was stripped of its victory after a plank wear violation discovered in post-race scrutineering. They would rebound the following round by finishing second at Sebring, which would go down as Tower’s best finish of 2025 – finishing no better than seventh in the remaining five races.
It’ll be the 17th Rolex 24 appearance for Bourdais, the four-time Champ Car champion and current Cadillac Racing factory driver, who is set to begin his second FIA WEC season with Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA.
Simpson last raced in IMSA in 2024 before embarking on his new role as a Chip Ganassi Racing IndyCar driver, in which the former European Le Mans Series LMP2 champion made significant improvements in his 2025 sophomore campaign. He’ll reunite with Alvarez, who, like Simpson, makes his fourth Rolex 24 appearance.