Lexus could yet race in the ALMS with a GT2S class IS 350 next season. It had planned to join the series this season with Chuck Goldsborough’s Team Lexus squad.
The IS 350 never appeared this year, although it was close to a first test when the project faltered. Lexus motorsport boss John Faivre says the company has split with Goldsborough, but the program could resurface for 2007. A decision is due in the next few weeks.
My.IS has reported the rumo(u)red possibility that Tom Milner's Prototype Technology Group (PTG), BMW's primary U.S. motorsports research and development team for the BMW M3 since 1995, would take over Team Lexus. There is another possibility, however, that cannot be ignored: Chip Ganassi. Ganassi, along with business partner Félix Sabatés, are surely best known to my.IS readers as the principals in the CompUSA-sponsored team that runs the No. 01 Lexus Riley Grand Am Rolex Series sports car, driven by Scott Pruett and a rotating cast of drivers that has included Max Papis and Luis Díaz.
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