The pair, team-mates in 2021-23 on the Arrow McLaren IndyCar Collection squad, will make one-off appearances at Daytona on 27-28 January within the pair of LMP2 class ORECA-Gibson 07s run by the Anglo-America crew co-owned by McLaren Racing boss Zak Brown.
O’Ward, who’s remaining at Arrow McLaren for a fifth season in 2024, will share United’s #2 ORECA with full-season drivers Ben Keating and Ben Hanley, in addition to Nico Pino, who will contest the long-distance rounds within the automotive.
Rosenqvist, who’s switching to Meyer Shank Racing for his 2024 IndyCar marketing campaign, will race the sister #22 automotive with Paul di Resta and Dan Goldburg, whereas the fourth driver who may even contest the remaining 4 IMSA enduros has but to be introduced.
Ward will likely be bidding for a 3rd class victory on the Daytona enduro.
The Mexican gained on debut in 2017 within the Prototype Problem division aboard the one-make ORECA-Chevrolet FLM09 as a part of a full-season programme with Efficiency Tech Motorsports that yielded the category title.
He gained in P2 aboard a DragonSpeed ORECA in 2022, his most up-to-date look on the Daytona Worldwide Speedway.
United crew principal Richard Dean mentioned: “We now have been attempting to get Pato in a United automotive for some time now; after a number of false begins, lastly we’ve got our man.
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#81 DragonSpeed USA Oreca LMP2 07: Patricio O’Ward, Eric Lux, Colton Herta, Devlin Defrancesco
“Pato brings expertise as a Daytona race winner and is simply plain quick in every little thing he drives.”
Rosenqvist is making a return to endurance racing for the primary time since 2018 when his programme included a second Daytona marketing campaign after a 2016 debut.
The Swede’s sportscar expertise contains racing within the GT World Problem Europe, Tremendous GT in Japan and the Le Mans 24 Hours.
Dean described Rosenqvist as a “winner who has gained races throughout a powerful vary of sequence via his profession”.
United will likely be racing at Daytona in January as a part of its first full-season assault on the IMSA sequence.
Its LMP2 crew is successfully shifting to the North American sequence after the disappearance of the category from the World Endurance Championship on the finish of this season.
One of the best consequence for United at Daytona got here in 2018 when it completed fourth total with a line-up together with di Resta and Bruno Senna driving a Ligier-Gibson JSP217 when P2s raced as a part of the highest class alongside the Daytona Prototype internationals.
