The 2025 Monterey SportsCar Championship (formally known as the 2025 TireRack.com Monterey SportsCar Championship) was a sports car race, held at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca near Monterey, California, on May 11, 2025. It was the fourth round of the 2025 IMSA SportsCar Championship.
International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) president John Doonan confirmed the race was part of the schedule of the 2025 IMSA SportsCar Championship (IMSA SCC) in March 2024. [1] It was the twelfth consecutive year the race is a part of the IMSA SCC. The 2025 Monterey SportsCar Championship was the fourth of eleventh scheduled sports car races of 2025 by IMSA. [2] The race was held at the eleven-turn 2.238 mi (3.602 km) WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca on May 11, 2025. [2]
Preceding the event, Felipe Nasr and Nick Tandy led the GTP Drivers' Championship with 1140 points after winning the opening three events, with Porsche team-mates Matt Campbell and Mathieu Jaminet in second, 123 points behind. Philipp Eng and Dries Vanthoor sat in third place, 265 points behind Nasr and Tandy. [3] The GTD Pro Drivers' Championship was led by Christopher Mies, Dennis Olsen, and Frédéric Vervisch with 653 points, 17 points ahead of Klaus Bachler, Laurin Heinrich, and Alessio Picariello. Connor De Phillippi, Madison Snow, and Neil Verhagen were third, 25 points behind Mies, Olsen, and Vervisch. [3] In the GTD Drivers' Championship, Philip Ellis and Russell Ward led with 994 points, 91 points ahead of second-placed Jack Hawksworth and Parker Thompson. Tom Gamble and Casper Stevenson rounded out the top three, 95 points behind Ellis and Ward. [3] The Teams' Championships were led by Porsche Penske Motorsport, Ford Multimatic Motorsports, and Winward Racing, respectively, with Porsche leading the GTP and GTD Manufacturers' Championships, and Ford leading the GTP Pro Manufacturers' Championship. [3]
The entry list was published on April 30, 2025, and featured 36 entries: 11 in GTP, 10 in GTD Pro, and 15 in GTD. [4]
Saturday's afternoon qualifying was broken into three sessions, with one session for the GTP, GTD Pro, and GTD classes each. [7] The rules dictated that all teams nominated a driver to qualify their cars. The competitors' fastest lap times determined the starting order. IMSA then arranged the grid to put GTPs ahead of the GTD Pro and GTD cars. [8]
Pole positions in each class are indicated in bold and with ‡.
Class winners are in bold and ‡.