Our friends at Cadillac are prepping for the Sports Car Club of America World Challenge GT this spring, and this video is a preview of their entry. It’s an incredible Caddy CTS-V coupe, but is not the same one you’ll get at the Cadillac dealer. This one is a full blown race car, roll cage, giant wing, and all, and it sounds like it could has more horsepower under the hood than Jimmie Johnson’s NASCAR ride. The video is titled 60 Seconds at Sebring and is, obviously, a run around the famous Sebring track. The Caddy will get it’s first run on March 25 in St. Petersburg, Florida. Cadillac has not competed in the series since 2007, and this will be their grand return.
Between 2005 and 2007 Cadillac captured the GT Manufacturer’s Championship as well as the GT Driver’s Championship in 2005 with the CTS-V Sport Sedan. In 2011 they will field two teams for the 2011 World Challenge GT season with the CTS-V Coupe. The CTS-V line includes not only the coupe, but also the CTS-V Sedan, and the ultimate grocery getter, the CTS-V Wagon. Johnny O’Connell, a three-time GT1 champion in the America Le Mans Series, and Andy Pilgrim, who won the 2005 World Challenge GT Driver’s Championship in a Cadillac, will be behind the wheel of the CTS-V race cars.