1. Filipe Albuquerque

Filipe Albuquerque has been a lynchpin in sports car racing for a number of years now, popping up here and there to put in consistent and, more importantly, spectacular performances.

Albuquerque narrowly missed out on victory at Daytona last year during the controversial late showdown with Ricky Taylor when he was hit at Turn 1, but bounced back to take an IMSA win at Watkins Glen, as well as finishing second in the European Le Mans Series for United Autosports.

The Audi factory driver and Le Mans regular will race for Mustang Sampling Racing behind the wheel of a Cadillac DPi car for the Rolex 24, teaming up once again with IMSA regulars Christian Fittipaldi and Joao Barbosa to create a formidable line-up that is set to be battling for victory come the chequered flag.