Tandy has "mixed feelings" about leaving IMSA for WEC

Tandy will complete a full campaign in the WEC for the first time since Porsche LMP1’s programme came to an end in 2017, partnering his regular IMSA team-mate Tommy Milner in Corvette’s sole C8.R in the GTE Pro division.

But Tandy’s return to the WEC will come at the expense of his previous programme in IMSA, where the British driver had been a regular since 2014 - scoring 11 GTLM wins with Porsche and Corvette during that period.

The 37-year-old says while he is looking forward to fighting for a world title again, he will also end up skipping several classic sportscar races in the USA after making a one-off outing in the Daytona 24 Hour in January.

“There are mixed kind of feelings,” said Tandy. “I think all of us are excited to do a world championship, to do something new and something different. But we are leaving a lot of people, a lot of tracks and races, and a lot of fans and stuff that we are used to seeing and racing with on a week-to-week basis in IMSA.

“I will miss going places like Virginia, Watkins Glen and events like this. But we are going for a World Championship and that is something not a lot of people get the chance to go for. Le Mans is always big, but a full World Endurance Championship season is something else. 

“To do a full WEC calendar and include Daytona as a single event from our side, it was a really nice thing to do. To have this opportunity to do these races and have the chance to be successful in not just a series but in these big, single events is something that’s always good.”

#4: Corvette Racing Corvette C8.R, GTLM: Tommy Milner, Nick Tandy, Alexander Sims

Photo by: Art Fleischmann

This year will mark Milner’s first full campaign in the WEC, having previously contested only selected