Buford, GA (Tuesday, January 14, 2025) — The Paul Miller Racing team will be represented by a full roster of BMW M works drivers as the team competes as a two-car GTD Pro effort for the first time.
Madison Snow and Neil Verhagen will return to the driver’s seat of the No. 1 iHeartRadio BMW M4 GT3 EVO machine for the full IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season. Snow, a longtime fixture of the team since 2016, has scored two GTD championships with PMR (2018 and 2023) before stepping up to GTD Pro as a BMW M works driver with the team for 2024. Neil Verhagen rejoins the team in a full-season capacity after helping Snow and then-teammate Bryan Sellers to the Michelin Endurance Cup title in 2024 in a third driver capacity.
The sister No. 48 iHeartRadio BMW M4 GT3 will be piloted by newcomers to the IMSA stage in Max Hesse and Dan Harper. Though they will be newcomers to the series and the team, the young BMW M works drivers are no strangers to PMR veteran Neil Verhagen, as Verhagen, Hesse and Harper shared a class victory at the 24 Hours of Nürburgring in 2020.
Hesse competed in the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup in 2024, taking victory at the Circuit Paul Ricard. He is also the 2019 ADAC TCR champion.
Harper, meanwhile, will also be making his IMSA debut in 2025 for PMR. He is the reigning Complete GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup Bronze class champion and previously won the British GT Championship with BMW in 2023.
“We’re really excited to have such a successful lineup of BMW factory guys in our cars this year,” Paul Miller Racing team owner, Paul Miller, said.
“Of course, working with Madison since 2016 and adding Neil to the team last year is a known quantity that we know can succeed. And adding Dan and Max to the team is a really exciting prospect to have for our program. It’s really incredible to see what these young guys have accomplished with BMW over the last few years and we’re hoping to add to that list of success in the GTD Pro class.
“The competition is always tough in IMSA, but I know with these drivers we have a great chance of fighting at the front.”
The remainder of the Paul Miller Racing lineup will be filled out by veteran drivers returning to the IMSA fold.
Fellow American Connor De Phillippi and newly-minted BMW M works driver Kelvin van der Linde will join Snow and Verhagen as endurance drivers for the 2025 season.
De Phillippi, a multi-time IMSA winner—including the 2019 Rolex 24—returns to the GTD Pro ranks following a two-year stint in BMW GTP machinery. Meanwhile, van der Linde—whose brother, Sheldon, raced with PMR at Rolex last year—will be making his first start as a BMW driver. The two-time ADAC GT Masters champion and two-time 24 Hours of Nürburgring winner will be looking for his first Rolex in his third attempt.
The No. 48 BMW M4 GT3 EVO lineup will be completed by Jesse Krohn and Augusto Farfus. Farfus is a back-to-back Rolex 24 at Daytona winner in 2019 and 2020 for BMW—sharing that 2020 win with Krohn. The duo will be looking to build on that success together with PMR in 2025.
“It really is an incredible stable of drivers we have the opportunity to work with with BMW,” Paul Miller Racing team manager, Mitchell Simmons, said.
“We’re the reigning Michelin Endurance Cup champions and I know everyone is looking to defend that title in 2025.
“Stepping up to the GTD Pro class has not been easy, and we know that moving to two cars will be an added challenge, but this team has proven time and time again that they can rise to the occasion and I’m really excited to see what we can do in 2025.”
“Another year and another step forward for Paul Miller Racing!” BMW of North America Motorsport and Customer Racing Manager, Adam McGregor, added. “Last year the Team took on the challenge of stepping up to GTD Pro and in their first year of GTD Pro competition they took home the Michelin Endurance Cup.
“This was a mega achievement and for this year PMR is again pushing this program to the next level with the two-car effort. With a full-factory driver line up and two new M4 GT3 EVOs my confidence is high for 2025!”
The 2025 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season kicks off this weekend with the Roar Before the Rolex 24, followed by the season kickoff, the Rolex 24 at Daytona January 25-26.
