Cadillac has made its mark on the FIA World Endurance Championship. On Sunday 14 July 2025, the #12 Cadillac V-Series.R of Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA won the 6 Hours of São Paulo, the fifth round of the season. Alex Lynn, Norman Nato and Will Stevens controlled the race perfectly in the American machine. The victory was Cadillac’s first in the FIA WEC Hypercar class. The team had more reasons to celebrate as the #38 car driven by Earl Bamber, Sébastien Bourdais and Jenson Button clinched second place for a remarkable one-two.

A perfectly controlled race

Lynn put the #12 Cadillac in pole position at Interlagos, just one month after going fastest in Hyperpole at the 93rd 24 Hours of Le Mans. Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA was determined to improve on its French showing by converting pole into victory. From the first hour of the race, the two American prototypes impressively took control of proceedings ahead of the Hypercar pack.

After 242 laps, the #12 Cadillac took the chequered flag ahead of the #38. Between them the two sister cars had led for 165 laps, highlighting the technical and strategic domination that they had held over the field. Stevens soon showed the competitiveness of the V-Series.R around the demanding 4.409-km Interlagos circuit by clocking the fastest mark (1:24.498) on just the third lap of the race.

A historic FIA WEC one-two

This was Cadillac’s first victory at the pinnacle of world endurance. Since it joined the Hypercar ranks in 2023, the American manufacturer had never been higher than the third step of the podium, achieved at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in its début campaign. This time, the Cadillac V-Series.R went to the very top.
The one-two accomplished in São Paulo is also a first for an American manufacturer in the WEC’s top class. A feat hailed by John Roth, Global Vice President of Cadillac. “Every member of the team can be very proud of their efforts on preparing the racecar for success, from both a technology and durability standpoint,” he said

Lining up in Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA’s official colours for the first time this season, JOTA is celebrating 25 years of racing in 2025. This victory in Brazil confirms that the team is now a leading figure in the Hypercar class. After winning the TotalEnergies 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps with a Porsche 963 last season and finishing just outside the Le Mans podium places last month, the background work is beginning to pay dividends.

Lynn, who has long been heavily involved in the development of the V-Series.R, enjoyed the weekend’s success. “Honestly, this is now year number three of me racing this car and year number four of driving it,” he recalled. “Personally, it's a huge sense of satisfaction. It's been a huge journey with Cadillac and to finally win a race of the WEC Championship is special. It's been a lot of hours driving the car and a lot of hours working on it and it means everything.”

Now for Austin

The Brazilian one-two has undoubtedly boosted Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA’s confidence levels going into the next round. The FIA WEC will resume business on 5 September at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. A symbolic meeting for the American carmaker who will be doubly determined to show its home crowd that the performance in Brazil was no flash in the pan. “A goal for this year was to obviously make sure we win a race,” said Stevens, “but we have even bigger aspirations to keep on winning races and tick off the big boxes that we want to take in this programme.”

Cadillac’s one-two at the Rolex 6 Hours of São Paulo takes it up to second place in the FIA Hypercar World Endurance Manufacturers’ Championship.  The gap to the leader Ferrari is 55 points, with Porsche a further nine points adrift.
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