Tower Motorsports has signed Renger van der Zande for a full 2027 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship campaign alongside team owner John Farano in the No. 8 ORECA LMP2 07.
Griffin Peebles will join the car for the IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup rounds, while Tristan Vautier completes the four-driver entry for the Rolex 24 At Daytona. The announcement gives Tower a defined full-season, endurance and Daytona structure before the 2027 programme begins.
Van der Zande moves into a full-time LMP2 role after ten consecutive seasons in IMSA's top prototype category. IMSA credits him with 133 WeatherTech Championship starts, 23 wins and five poles, while Farano begins his seventh consecutive full LMP2 season and previously won the class championship in 2022.
Peebles arrives after winning the 2026 European Le Mans Series LMP2 title. Tower says the combination of experience and recent development gives it the personnel to challenge for victories, but that is the team's competitive assessment rather than a performance guarantee.
The release does not disclose driver contract terms, programme budget, commercial partners, engineering appointments, test mileage, chassis allocation or the supply arrangements behind the ORECA-Gibson package. It also does not identify changes to the team's ownership or operating base.
Tower finished third at Sebring in 2026 and sixth in the LMP2 drivers' standings with Farano. Its most recent IMSA victory came at Sebring in 2023, after three consecutive Petit Le Mans wins from 2020 to 2022. Those results provide context for the team's 2027 objective without establishing a forecast.
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