United Autosports - 2025 IMSA Petit Le Mans
This weekend marked the seventh and final round of the 2025 IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Championship - a ten-hour showdown at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, where heartbreak struck the United Autosports LMP2 crews not once, but twice.
With just under two hours remaining, the #22 ORECA 07 was forced behind the wall with suspension damage, followed an hour later by the sister #2 with a similar issue. Both teams fought back valiantly, completing rapid repairs to rejoin the race, but ultimately the #2 (P9) and #22 (DNF) could not recover what was lost in a heartbreaking finale to a multi-race winning season.
United Autosports USA #22 ORECA 07 LMP2 drivers IMSA 2025 - Daniel Goldburg, Paul Di Resta, Rasmus Lindh
#22 ORECA 07
QUALI P4 | RACE DNF | CHAMP P4
Starting P4 on the grid with the championship title in sight, Daniel Goldburg was immediately caught up in lap one drama with contact from behind, dropping the #22 back to P8. Taking advantage of the second FCY, the Daytona race winner dived into the pits for a tail change and consequently dropped to the back of the pack (P11) but stayed on the lead lap. Rejoining with vengeance, Goldburg soared though the ranks and quickly climbed back into the top five after two and a half hours of continuous racing, before handing over to Platinum-graded co-driver Paul Di Resta.
Di Resta delivered a sensational double stint - consistently running in the top two and leading the LMP2 class for the majority of his run, impressively doing so on used tyres while the chasing championship rival ran fresh rubber. During this dominant stretch, the #22 led the race for more than four hours - at one stage pulling over a minute clear of the race winner. Three and a half hours into the race, Petit Le Mans finally saw its first hour of uninterrupted green-flag racing, with Di Resta leading the race before handing over to Rasmus Lindh. The Swedish driver continued the charge, battling for the lead before a slow puncture forced an unscheduled stop, though dropping the car only one position due to quick work from the crew.
Then, heartbreak. With just under two hours to go, the #22 was sent behind the wall with front-right suspension damage. The crew executed a rapid repair, sending Lindh back out 20 minutes later - but 14 laps down, ending all chance of clinching the team’s first IMSA championship title. Not long after, the sister car suffered a similar fate.
Daniel Goldburg: “It's a frustrating end to an overall stellar season. We had control of the race and then had uprights fail. We'll need to take a good look at why so we can come back stronger next year. But as has been standard for the year, the United crew was on point. Strategy, crew work, speed, we had the pieces to bring home the win, and the season championship was within sight. But not this year. So, we keep pushing and try to come back even better next year.”
Rasmus Lindh: “Great race until two hours to go, really. At the start of the race, we were looking really, really strong. We had control over the race, mid-race and almost the whole way to the end we had a big fuel advantage on the No.11 car, so we were just in cruise control to just finish the race. At two hours to go we had a small failure, which meant that we had to go behind the wall – that was very hard to take in, since at that point we had the championship in our hands. At that point we were leading the championship, and everything was going to plan and we were doing what we needed to come out on top for the IMSA season and for the race. So, it is extremely hard for us to take that in – but that’s racing sometimes! I just want to say a massive thank you to United Autosports and the whole crew, it’s been an amazing year – we’ve probably been leading the most laps out of any car in the field, pitstops have been amazing, strategy has been amazing, and all three drivers have done a great job. It’s been a fantastic 2025 so far, I wish we could’ve ended it a little bit better, as we had been going for until two hours to go. Again, massive thank you to United Autosports, and let’s see what the future holds.”
Paul Di Resta: “A bitter pill to swallow this weekend. We had the chance to win the championship, were leading for over four hours of the race and had nearly a minute lead before suffering suspension damage. Really hard to take. But looking back over the season, we’ve had some really strong weekends – the Daytona win to kick off the year and a second win at Watkins Glen. Daniel has put in some hard work, he is seriously competitive right now and deservedly so. The United crew and engineers have been top notch as usual, and as a driver crew Rasmus, Daniel and I have worked very well together. It’s just a shame the season ended this way.”
United Autosports USA #2 ORECA 07 LMP2 drivers IMSA 2025 - Nick Boulle, Juan Manuel Correa, Ben Hanley
#2 ORECA 07
QUALI P5 | RACE P9 | CHAMP P7
In the sister car, Nick Boulle qualified for one last time this season, putting the #2 LMP2 P5 on the grid. Boulle made a great start to the 10-hour race gaining one position amidst the lap one drama and held position, sitting comfortably in the top four and pushing to P2 through multiple FCYs in the first two hours - before handing over to Juan Manuel Correa.
Correa had a tricky start, making contact with the wall on his out-lap on cold tyres. The #2 dived into the pits for a nose change, followed by another trip through the pits to serve a drive-through as a result of Boulle running over equipment in an earlier stint – a double blow to the #2’s front running P2 position. Thanks to strategic calls from the engineering team, the #2 drivers successfully regained the two laps lost, with hard work from Ben Hanley.
Hanley took over for the middle stints, expertly navigating heavy traffic and bringing the #2 back into top-four contention. With two and a half hours to go, the car was back in the hunt. Hanley handed back to Correa, who immediately began closing on the podium positions - until disaster struck once more. Just 40 minutes after the sister car’s suspension failure, the #2 suffered a similar same fate, sending the car behind the wall for urgent repairs.
The United Autosports crew delivered another lightning-fast fix, returning to the track for the final hour. Despite a determined push to the end, the time lost in the garage sealed their result - sadly, crossing the line P9 at the final checkered flag of the IMSA season.
Nick Boulle: “Petit Le Mans as usual was eventful! The start of the race was tough as we faced some issues with the car for the first four hours or so that were making it very tricky to drive. Once we made it past that we realized we had an amazing car.
Juan’s second stint in the car and Ben’s stint to un-lap us, I think, were some of the best drives of the season. We were back into podium contention by pure grit and excellent pit work. It was beyond painful for everyone to have a great result within reach again after a tough year and to watch it slip away.
A big thank you to everyone who made this year possible, and to the crew and everyone at hard work this year. It seemed like great success kept slipping away from us, but I hope we get the opportunity to try again in the future.”
Juan Manuel Correa: “Very grateful to have competed in majority of the endurance season with United Autosports. Petit was a tough race with bad luck but good pace – in the end it didn’t come together. But I enjoyed a lot this weekend and throughout the whole season with the #2 crew and working with the whole United team this year.”
Ben Hanley: “Finishing off another frustrating season with a frustrating race. The car had a set-back early on in the race and we went a couple of laps down, but we managed to fight back and get back in contention for a podium, chasing down second place. Then unfortunately we had a failure, which meant that we had to pit for repairs to get it sorted and back out – which we did, but by then we were quite a few laps down, so that ended our race prematurely. Another one of ‘what could’ve been’.”
Management
Max Gregory, Managing Director: “Unfortunately, not the finish to the season that we had worked for, hoped for … or imagined. It’s been a year of incredible highs with two race wins including our first victory at Daytona, two pole positions and three trips to the podium, and we came into this weekend with a championship title fight on our hands for the #22. So, ending with a DNF and P9 is heartbreaking for the whole team. But that is not representative of the calibre of United Autosports USA over the past two seasons in IMSA. We have achieved so much already - credit to every single person in the team who has worked so hard - and we will be coming back even stronger next year to win more races, claim more points and bring home that LMP2 title.”