DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Jan. 9, 2013) — Grand-Am Road Racing and the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) have unveiled a competition-class structure in Daytona Beach that will take effect when the two series officially merge in 2014.
The new structure will include four classes of competition with the possibility of a fifth class. The ALMS LMP1 prototype class is being eliminated as expected, while the Grand-Am Daytona Prototype and ALMS LMP2 classes will combine. The GT classes in each series will remain separate.
The first race—the 2014 Rolex 24—for the unified Grand-Am/ALMS will take place at Daytona International Speedway in January 2014. The planned merger was announced last September.
While the series are yet to finalize individual class names — as well as the name of the new combined series — the class structure is expected to have the following look:
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