Trent Hindman is joining Wayne Taylor Racing’s GTD effort alongside Danny Formal, who will return for his sophomore season in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. Formal and Hindman will be the full-season pairing in the No. 45 Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO2, with Doyle Graham returning to his endurance addition role and Kyle Marcelli moving from full-season to a single appearance with the team in the Rolex 24 At Daytona.
The 2025 WeatherTech Championship will mark WTR’s second season competing full-time in the GTD class after earning a pole position and four top-10 finishes, including a fifth-place result at Petit Le Mans, in 2024. The partnership between WTR and Lamborghini Squadra Corse spans nearly a decade, as WTR has won 14 championship titles in Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America and the team plans to continue fielding a stable of cars for the 2025 season.
Hindman was a key part of that success, scoring an overall Lamborghini Super Trofeo World Finals Champion title at Imola and the 2017 LSTNA PRO/AM drivers’ title with WTR. Since then Hindman has made a name for himself competing in IMSA’s and WeatherTech Championship and Michelin Pilot Challenge, earning the GTD championship in 2019 and the GTD Endurance Cup in 2021.
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“For me, this a long-awaited reunion with a team I’ve shared success with in the past,” said Hindman. “Although a different Lamborghini Huracán platform, championship series, and group of teammates, I look forward to finding success again with the same core group that has developed so much over the past seven years since we last worked together.”
Formal claimed the team’s first sprint race GTD pole position at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca while doing double duty throughout 2024, competing in the GTD class as well as the Lamborghini Super Trofeo PRO class championship.
“We had a fantastic first season with an amazing top five to end the season at Road Atlanta,” said Formal. “We got our first pole position as a team in GTD — we were the only Lamborghini to get a pole position all season long. We led some laps at a lot of the tracks we went to. In the second season, our sophomore season, it’s going to be a great one – I can already tell.”
“I’m excited to be back in GTD with DEX and Lamborghini,” said team owner Wayne Taylor. “We have a great line-up this year. Danny is back and stronger than ever. Trent has rejoined our WTR family, which is great as we had such success together back in 2017 in the Lamborghini Super Trofeo series. Graham will be running with us in the five IMEC endurance events again and keeps stepping things up as he gains more and more experience. And we are delighted to have Kyle back, who is part of our WTR family. It is going to be a great season with DEX and Lamborghini.”
The team gets its first official run as a unit during the Roar Before the 24 on Jan. 17-19, the annual three-day test that precedes the Rolex 24 at Daytona on Jan. 23-26.