Mazda Team Joest announces its 2020 IMSA prototype drivers

Mazda Team Joest will feature a familiar lineup of drivers who will drive the pair of Mazda RT24-Ps in the 2020 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.

Partnering for the third straight season in the #55 Mazda RT24-P will be Jonathan Bomarito and Harry Tincknell. Bomarito, Tincknell and Olivier Pla delivered Mazda's first victory in the Daytona Prototype International class in June at the Sahlen's Six Hours of the Glen while Bomarito and Tincknell scored another victory at Road America. For Bomarito, this will be his ninth season racing with Mazda.

For 2020, they will be joined in the Michelin Endurance Cup by Ryan Hunter-Reay. Hunter-Reay, the 2012 Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Indycar Series champion and the winner of the 2014 Indianapolis 500, drove the #55 Mazda RT24-P at Mid-Ohio alongside Bomarito, finishing in third position. Hunter-Reay has competed extensively in sports cars, with an overall victory at Petit Le Mans and a class victory at the 12 Hours of Sebring on his resume.

Olivier Jarvis and Tristan Nunez will partner for a third season in the #77 Mazda RT24-P. Jarvis and Nunez scored their first victory in July at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park and finished on the podium three additional times in the 2019 season, while Jarvis qualified on pole three times in 2019. This will be Nunez's eighth season racing for Mazda.

The two will be joined in the Michelin Endurance Cup rounds by Olivier Pla, who moves over from the #55 Mazda RT24-P for the 2020 season. A sports car racing standout who also has an overall victory at Petit Le Mans on his resume, Pla was part of the Mazda driver lineup that took victory at the Sahlen's Six Hours of the Glen in June.