The car that brought Cadillac back to professional endurance racing
The car that brought Cadillac back to professional endurance racing
2000 Cadillac LMP by J.A. Ackley
Apr 2, 2026
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It had been 50 years since Cadillac last competed in world-class endurance racing. The automaker returned to the scene at the 2000 Rolex 24 At Daytona with two prototypes, one of which was this example.
Famed sportsman Briggs Cunningham last campaigned a Cadillac in a world-renown 24-hour race in 1950 at Le Mans. He brought two Cadillac Series 61 cars: one stock, dubbed “Petit Pataud,” and the other with a custom body, nicknamed “Le Monstre.”
Fifty years later, Team Cadillac brought its Northstar V8-powered entries to Daytona with an all-star cast of drivers. Butch Leitzinger, Andy Wallace and Franck Lagorce drove one entry, and Wayne Taylor, Max Angelelli and Eric van de Poele drove this one. The Taylor-Angelelli-van de Poele trio drove this Cadillac to a podium for its class, a third place, right behind its team car.
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