Jamie Chadwick will be Genesis Magma Racing’s reserve driver for the team’s FIA World Endurance Championship campaign next season. She will continue her own racing programme alongside the new role.

<a href="https://www.24h-lemans.com/en/news/jamie-chadwick-intends-to-work-her-way-up-to-hypercar-59730" target="_blank">Jamie Chadwick&#39;s</a>&nbsp;career is progressing as planned. The British driver recently took the wheel of the <a href="https://www.24h-lemans.com/en/news/genesis-takes-the-wraps-of-its-gmr-001-hypercar-59196" target="_blank">Genesis GMR-001 Hypercar</a> fielded in the 2026 FIA World Endurance Championship. From now on, and throughout the coming season, she will be involved in the Hypercar development process at Genesis Magma Racing. This means taking part in tests on track and simulator.

A member of Genesis Magma Racing Trajectory since December 2024, Jamie Chadwick took her seat in the cockpit of the GMR-001 during <a href="https://www.24h-lemans.com/en/news/genesis-takes-the-wraps-of-its-gmr-001-hypercar-59196" target="_blank">a three-day test at Magny-Cours</a>. The 27-year-old is the second female Hypercar driver, after Lilou Wadoux. &ldquo;My first laps in the GMR-001 Hypercar were amazing,&rdquo; says Chadwick, who took third place in the 2025 European Le Mans Series with Daniel Juncadella and Mathys Joubert. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a really impressive car and so fast in a straight line. There&rsquo;s a lot of different systems available to you as a driver, tools that you can use to make a difference. Obviously, so much is changing and evolving with every test that the team does, but it&rsquo;s just a super car to drive, but also just a great team to be part of.&rdquo;

With a few laps on the clock, Chadwick&rsquo;s Hypercar driver and development role has well and truly begun. She will be Genesis Magma Racing&rsquo;s reserve driver for the team&rsquo;s FIA World Endurance Championship campaign next season. She will continue her own racing programme &ndash; to be announced &ndash; alongside the new role. &ldquo;It&#39;s hugely special to be involved in the development of the GMR-001 Hypercar,&rdquo; says Chadwick. &ldquo;It&#39;s another progression in my career and one I&#39;m really proud of. Becoming a Reserve Driver in Hypercar is one step closer to my ultimate goal. The opportunity to test and drive more is something that I&#39;m really looking forward to and a role that I&#39;m going to try to relish and make the most of.&rdquo;

<h2>FIA WEC driver line-ups to be announced shortly</h2>

Genesis Magma Racing is expected to reveal its driver crews for the 2026 FIA World Endurance Championship in the next few days. Andr&eacute; Lotterer (three-time 24 Hours of Le Mans winner), Pipo Derani, Mathys Jaubert and Daniel Juncadella joined the GMR-001 development team this summer. A two-car entry with Jamie Chadwick in reserve means there are two seats free at Genesis for the eight-round championship.

Jamie Chadwick promoted to reserve driver at Genesis Magma Racing

American manufacturer Cadillac has updated its hypercar for its two-pronged championship commitments in 2026.

Next season, the&nbsp;Cadillac V-Series.R&nbsp;will compete in the FIA World Endurance Championship and the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship&nbsp;with a new aero set-up. While the American hypercar retains signature design elements of the production V-Series, notable changes have been made. These include the removal of the front dive planes and winglets and a reshaped rear wing profile. The rear wing now appears to be lower as a result.

These updates are intended to boost the peak speed of the V-Series.R. At the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the quickest Cadillac V-Series.R (the Cadillac Whelen #311 car) reached&nbsp;345.6 kph. In comparison, the top speed for a Ferrari 499P was 349 kph&nbsp;(for the Ferrari AF Corse #50 car). The Hertz Team JOTA #12 Cadillac meanwhile peaked at 343.4 kph.

Three Cadillac V-Series.Rs are taking part in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship homologation tests today and tomorrow at the Daytona International Speedway. All feature these improvements.

Cadillac improves V-Series.R Hypercar aero for 2026

The third episode in our YouTube mini-series dedicated to racing families at the 24 Hours covers a deeply moving father-son relationship. It's the story of Eduardo Barrichello's first participation in the Le Mans classic, following in the footsteps of his father, Rubens.

After the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.24h-lemans.com/en/news/a-youtube-mini-series-all-about-racing-families-at-the-2025-24-hours-of-le-mans-60044" target="_blank">Taylor</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.24h-lemans.com/en/news/inside-the-vanthoors-the-vanthoor-brothers-at-the-2025-24-hours-of-le-mans-60076" target="_blank">Vanthoor</a>&nbsp;families, our&nbsp;YouTube mini-series about racing families at the 2025&nbsp;24 Hours&nbsp;continues with The Barrichellos Story spotlighting&nbsp;Eduardo Barrichello, the son of former F1 driver Rubens Barrichello who represented Racing Team Nederland at&nbsp;Le Mans in 2017 in the&nbsp;LMP2 category.

This year, Eduardo took his rookie&nbsp;start in the race at the wheel of Racing Spirit of Leman&#39;s #10&nbsp;Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGT3. This episode&nbsp;revisits that pivotal moment in his young career as he&nbsp;discovers the world&rsquo;s most demanding race.

But&nbsp;The Barrichellos Story&nbsp;goes beyond the sporting aspect of this relationship, revealing&nbsp;the closeness&nbsp;between the two,&nbsp;with Rubens thrilled to witness his son&#39;s first Le Mans experience. Watch&nbsp;how his&nbsp;advice, experience and kindness helped his Eduardo&nbsp;find his way in motorsport and&nbsp;realize&nbsp;his dream of participating in the 24 Hours.

This episode also delves into&nbsp;how Eduardo&rsquo;s race unfolded, including&nbsp;behind-the-scenes coverage of&nbsp;the Racing Spirit of Leman garage.

Check out&nbsp;The Barrichellos Story, the third&nbsp;episode in&nbsp;our&nbsp;2025 24 Hours of Le Mans YouTube mini-series, at the official&nbsp;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/@24heuresdumans">24 Hours of Le&nbsp;Mans YouTube channel</a>.

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Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA has announced its driver line-ups for the 2026 FIA World Endurance Championship season. The American manufacturer is banking on continuity and experience.

Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA ended the 2025 season in fourth place in the FIA Hypercar World Endurance Manufacturers&rsquo; Championship. Highlights of the campaign were undoubtedly a maiden victory in the 6 Hours of S&atilde;o Paulo and three pole positions, including Hyperpole at the 93rd 24 Hours of Le Mans. The outfit is banking on two talented, experienced driver line-ups to add further wins to its tally in 2026.

Alex Lynn,&nbsp;Norman Nato&nbsp;and Will Stevens scored points in every round in 2025 and will continue to&nbsp; share the wheel of the #12 <a href="https://www.24h-lemans.com/en/news/the-cadillac-v-series-r-under-the-microscope-ready-to-roar-for-america-at-le-mans-59659" target="_blank">Cadillac V-Series.R</a>. 
Thirty-year-old Jack Aitken will join Earl Bamber&nbsp;and S&eacute;bastien Bourdais&nbsp;in the #38 sister car. He will take the seat vacated by Jenson Button, the 2009 Formula One world champion, who is retiring after two seasons with JOTA.

&ldquo;We&rsquo;re delighted to welcome Jack on board,&rdquo;&nbsp;said JOTA Sport director and founder David Clark.&nbsp;&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been following his progress closely this year and have been really impressed by his raw pace and consistency &mdash; both essential ingredients for success in the Hypercar category. As an existing member of the wider Cadillac Racing driver family, Jack is a natural fit for us. He already understands the culture, the people, and the expectations within the Cadillac ecosystem. Beyond his performance on track, Jack&rsquo;s calm personality and team-first attitude make him an excellent addition to our driver line-up. We never take team chemistry for granted &mdash; six individual stars won&rsquo;t win endurance races, but six drivers who work as one can. Everything we&rsquo;ve seen from Jack so far shows he embodies that spirit, and we can&rsquo;t wait to see what he achieves with the team next season.&rdquo;

Aitken had the chance to try out the Cadillac V-Series.R in its FIA WEC set-up during the Rookie Test held the day after the Bapco Energies 8 Hours of Bahrain. Next season, he will also compete in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship with Action Express Racing.&nbsp;&ldquo;I am very appreciative that Cadillac has that trust and are willing to give me the opportunity,&rdquo; said the British racer. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s very exciting for me personally because I&rsquo;ve never raced in the WEC and I&rsquo;ve never raced with JOTA, even though we&rsquo;ve come close a couple of times and have had a relationship that is now coming to fruition. They have fantastic people &ndash; from the drivers to the staff &ndash; and it&rsquo;s a team that has had success in WEC.&nbsp; I&rsquo;m excited to try to take what I&rsquo;ve learned in IMSA at Action Express and bring that across to try to push things forward.&nbsp; I&rsquo;m excited to start the year and to double up on my time in the Cadillac V-Series.R.&rdquo;

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