Coming on the heels of the announcement earlier this week that Kyle Marcelli was returning for the 2019 season, fellow Canadian Ken Wilden has announced that he too will be joining KohR Motorsports for 2019. Ken will be joining the driving team of Rod Randall, DJ Randall. Rod Randall and Ken Wilden will pilot the #59 Ford Mustang GT4 with DJ Randall coming on board for the longer 4-hour races.
Here are the results for the Canadians participating in today’s race from Daytona. The first IMSA Prototype Challenge race of the 2019 season.
| Finish | Car # | Driver | Team |
| 3 | 60 | Scott Maxwell | Wulver Racing |
| 5 | 75 | Cameron Cassels | Performance Tech Motorsports |
| 7 | 19 | Bradley Baker / Dean Baker | Performance Tech Motorsports |
| 9 | 25 | Aaron Povoledo | Conquest Racing |
| 12 | 51 | Garett Grist | K2R Motorsports |
| 15 | 23 | Anthony Simone | Alianza/Gilbert Motorsports |
| 18 | 2 | Michal Chlumecky | Ansa Motorsports |
Compass Racing announced that they are extending their partnership with McLaren by launching the new 720S GT3 in North America. They will be competing in the new “IMSA WeatherTech Sprint Cup” for GT Daytona (GTD) class competitors, starting at Mid-Ohio in May with a 2-hour-and-forty-minute race. Driving the car will be Paul Holton and Matt Plumb. Other races will be held at Belle Isle (Detroit), Canadian Tire Motorsports Park, Lime Rock Park, Road America, Virginia International Raceway and WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca.
LEXUS announced today that it will partner with the newly formed AIM ( of Woodbridge Ontario ) VASSER SULLIVAN motorsports team. The team will run two Lexus RC F GT3 race cars in the 2019 season.
| WeatherTech SportsCar Championship | ||||
| Motul Petit Le Mans | ||||
| Prototype | Start | Finish | Drivers | Team |
| #85 | 7 | 9 | Simon Trummer/ Robert Alon/ “Devlin DeFrancesco” | JDC-Miller Motorsports |
| #99 | 10 | 10 | Chris Miller/ Stephen Simpson/ Misha Goikhberg ??? | JDC-Miller Motorsports |
| GTD | ||||
| #14 | 31 | 11 | Dominik Baumann/ “Kyle Marcelli”/ Philipp Frommenwiler | 3GT Racing |