Everyone knew it was a bad omen for the season when the two-time IMSA GTD champions Pfaff Motorsport switched from their fan favorite plaid Porsche to a terrible papaya orange McLaren 750 GT3. The god-like Canadian team didn’t find a single win in 2024 with McLaren, only managing two podiums all season. That’s what happens when you lose who you are. The team is 100 percent back on its bullshit, however, in 2025 with a newly-unveiled plaid and silver livery, this time wrapped around an ultra-aggressive Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2. Hoping for a little of that 2022 magic, the team developed a new plaid livery quite similar to its championship-winning look, and I could not be more here for it.
The Canada-based lumberjack squad moonlighting as a racing team will once again compete for the GTD Pro category honors in the IMSA Weathertech SportsCar Championship, this time with the Italian automaker. The car will make its on-track debut this weekend at the pre-season test known as The Roar Before The 24, and stay in Daytona for the 24 Hours race the following weekend. Lamborghini will supply Pfaff with factory racing drivers Andrea Caldarelli and Jordan Pepper, who will be joined by Pfaff aces Marco Mapelli and James Hinchliffe for the twice-around-the-clock endurance classic in January. The team is expected to announce its full-season driver lineup at the Roar.
Pfaff was among the first teams of the modern era to grow its fanbase with a fun racing livery that has a story. Pfaff walked so that AO Racing’s dinosaur-based Rexy Porsche livery could run, and because of that I will always have a fondness for the good Canadian lads. I hope that more teams choose to go with something that really stands out from the crowd when they pick their liveries for 2025. The world of international motorsport could use a little more whimsy. Hell, every aspect of the world in 2025 could use a little more whimsy.
When asked for comment about how their race season would go, the Pfaff team said simply, “We’re just gonna send it, eh.”
