Hanley Motorsports to field BMW entries in IMSA in 2027

Robert Hanley's new team, Hanley Motorsports, is being assembled to run three classes across two IMSA championships next year with BMW machinery. The squad is backed by the key players behind DXDT Racing and Paul Miller Racing, the latter of which won this year's WeatherTech SportsCar Championship GTD Pro title and the Rolex 24 at Daytona.

Hanley began in motorsport as a driver, competing in midget and sprint cars before moving to Porsche single-make racing, where he won a Porsche Sprint Challenge North America championship. A back injury sustained during a second spell of racing shifted his focus to team ownership, and his first Hanley Motorsports operation ran a Toyota GR Supra GT4 EVO in Pirelli GT4 America from 2023 to 2024, with his son Daniel and Parker Thompson driving.

The Hanley Motorsports name returned this year, backing DXDT Racing and Bryan Herta Autosport with PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports in the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, and providing opportunities for Mason Filippi and Thompson.