Kyffin Simpson took a slight detour on his solution to IndyCar over the weekend, sampling the Cadillac V-Collection.R LMDh automotive on the Bahrain Worldwide Circuit. Simpson, who will make the leap to Chip Ganassi Racing’s NTT IndyCar Collection lineup for the 2024 season, logged 42 laps within the No. 2 Cadillac throughout Sunday’s FIA World Endurance Championship Rookie Take a look at.

Alex Lynn, one of many full-season FIA World Endurance Championship drivers for the manufacturing facility Cadillac program and who not too long ago teamed with Simpson to win the European Le Mans Collection LMP2 championship, arrange the automotive for the 19-year-old native of Barbados.

“It was a whole lot of enjoyable, actually. I assumed it was a extremely cool automotive to drive and a brand new expertise for me,” Simpson mentioned. “It is a very high-tech automotive, which was a whole lot of studying. But it surely was an ideal expertise, and I’m grateful to GM and Chip Ganassi Racing for giving me this chance.”

Simpson is a earlier winner in IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship competitors, having taken the 2022 Petit Le Mans GTD victory with Until Bechtolsheimer and Mario Farnbacher in Gradient Racing’s Acura NSX GT3 Evo22, in addition to an LMP2 victory on the Twelve Hours of Sebring with John Farano and Scott McLaughlin.

“This drives much more like a GT automotive [compared to LMP2], and I discovered that actually attention-grabbing,” he mentioned.

“They’ve a whole lot of energy, so it will get in control rapidly. I believe the staff is kind of pleased with it. I believe Nico [Varrone, who also tested the Cadillac V-Series.R] and I had been in a position to discover some issues that the drivers who drive this on a regular basis simply sort of get accustomed to. That was a giant factor for the Ganassi guys. Hopefully, they will take that info and enhance the automotive for subsequent yr.”

Varrone was the 2024 WEC endurance driver for the Corvette GTE program that received the category within the centenary 24 Hours of Le Mans on the way in which to claiming the GTE championship. He drove 44 laps on the three.36-mile, 15-turn circuit.

Simpson, who joined Chip Ganassi Racing as a growth driver in Could 2022, competed the previous two seasons within the Indy NXT collection. Along with driving the in ELMS this previous season, he additionally co-drove to an LMP2 class victory within the Asian Le Mans Collection’ 4 Hours of Dubai.

Simpson drove an IndyCar for the primary time in January 2023 with Chip Ganassi Racing at a Sebring Worldwide Raceway take a look at.