Championship-winning Porsche competitors GMG Racing and team drivers Kyle Washington, Patrick Mulcahy and James Sofronas will campaign a trio of Porsche 911 GT3 Cup entries in this week’s season-opening IMSA Carrera Cup North America doubleheader at Sebring International Raceway. Debuting series rookie Mulcahy and two-time Porsche racing champion Sofronas will each run their first full season Carrera Cup efforts in 2025 while Washington’s select schedule of races includes the Sebring opener, the season-ending race at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta and possible other rounds in between.

The Mobil 1 brand has had a longtime and valued relationship with Sofronas and GMG Racing, and both his No. 14 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup and Washington’s similar No. 32 entry will carry special Mobil “Pegasus”-branded liveries in support of Saturday’s 73rd running of the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring. The twin 40-minute Carrera Cup races Thursday and Friday on the 3.74-mile Sebring airport circuit are two of main support races for Saturday’s featured Mobil 1 Twelve Hour IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship race.

“We’re very proud of our longstanding relationship with GMG Racing,” said Jei Gort, Global Sponsorships and Motorsports at ExxonMobil. “The team is among the premier Porsche organizations in North America, and we’re honored that GMG cars will carry Mobil ‘Pegasus’-branded liveries during one of our biggest weekends of the year. We can’t wait to see them on track in the Carrera Cup races.”

Mulcahy steps up to Carrera Cup after ascending the GMG Racing driver development ladder for the last few years. Starting with GMG Racing with lapping days and his first races at The Thermal Club – where GMG Racing opened its new headquarters operation in late 2024 – Mulcahy moved up to Porsche Sprint Challenge USA West competition last year. He progressed throughout the season, reaching the podium for the first time with a third place finish last August at Road America before closing out the year one race later with a season-best second-place finish at the Sonoma Raceway finale.

“Moving to Carrera Cup is a huge opportunity for me and the team, and it feels like a step in the right direction at the right time,” Mulcahy said. “Last season we made consistent progress, and at the end of the year I felt really comfortable running up front with the best guys. Stepping up to Carrera Cup, I know the competition will be even tougher – that’s for sure – and it’s obviously on a bigger stage, but that is exactly what I want. I want to race against the best and continue to improve. I love the Porsche car, and I am confident that with the right preparation, team and car – which I believe we have – we can be competitive from the start.”

Amazingly, Sofronas – who has been racing and winning championships in sports cars for nearly 30 years – joins Mulcahy as a first-time, full-season Carrera Cup competitor. Even though Sofronas has four career sports car racing championships to his credit – including the 2017 World Challenge GTA and SprintX GT Pro-Am titles in a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup – he did not make his first Carrera Cup starts until 2023.

“I won my first GT World Challenge Pro-Am Championship in a Porsche in 2017,” said Sofronas, who is the GMG Racing Founder and Team Principal. “Working closely with Porsche and their factory drivers in what was really my first full season in a top-flight GT3 car gave me the chance to focus 100% on winning a championship while developing our own GMG Racing driver development program. Kyle Washington has been a great example of a top driver moving up in the Porsche racing ranks with GMG the last few years, and now we are excited to showcase Patrick Mulcahy in a two-Porsche full-season entry in Carrera Cup Pro-Am. Patrick has been an integral part of our driver development program starting at The Thermal Club with his first competition laps in their GT race series. He stepped up to Porsche Sprint Challenge last year with a lot of success, and now he is excited to jump into Carrera Cup competition, which has some of the best drivers and teams in North America in a single-make series.”

Sofronas swept both rounds of his Carrera Cup debut in 2023’s season-ending race at Circuit of The Americas and picked up right where he left off with a third-straight win in last year’s first race of the season at Sebring. He captured additional victories last year at Montreal and Road America to build a strong record of five wins in his first 10 Carrera Cup races. This weekend’s pair of races will be just the 13th and 14th career Carrera Cup race starts for Sofronas.

“James Sofronas and GMG Racing have been a longtime supporter of Porsche Motorsport North America on and off the track, and we’re thrilled that James is going to step into his first full-time Carrera Cup North America season as a Pro-Am driver alongside Patrick this year,” Porsche Motorsport North America President and CEO Volker Holzmeyer said. “James has been successful behind the wheel of a Porsche for most of his sports car racing career, and his GMG Racing team has helped to bring even more participation into our programs. That includes the past couple of years with Kyle Washington in Porsche Sprint Challenge and Carrera Cup. We’re looking forward to seeing the GMG cars on track once again this season beginning at Sebring.”

The Porsche relationship is even stronger after Sofronas and his team opened up GMG Racing’s new and state-of-the art headquarters operation at The Thermal Club last year.

“Porsche has been an amazing partner with us going on 20 years,” Sofronas said. “We have such a strong relationship with Porsche on the street performance side as well, and the vast majority of that business is with the Porsche brand. And the R&D of our performance products, including our safety equipment, suspensions, wheels, brakes, exhaust, all of that transfers from the Porsche racing side into these products for our clients who are looking to put their street car on track. It can’t be said enough how important it is to have our new shop at the Thermal Club to be able to do all of this testing and development on site and to greatly expedite the process. Partnering with Porsche on both the competition and street performance sides just plain makes sense, and I think it has given us an advantage for not only us as a business but for our clients looking to improve their high-performance street cars or their racecraft to work their way up the GMG ladder program to make their way to the highest levels of motorsports success they are looking to achieve.”

Washington has ascended the GMG Racing driver development ladder exclusively in Porsches the last few years. He looks to move up a podium position or two this weekend after a third-place Masters finish in the Carrera Cup season opener last year. He already has a major win in a GMG Racing GT3 Porsche this year when he led overall and went on to take the Bronze class victory in a wet IMSA VP Racing SportsCar Challenge race at Daytona International Speedway in January.

“Troy Lee Designs did an amazing job with the livery of the iconic Mobil 1 Pegasus, “Washington said. “This Troy Lee Designs and Mobil 1 collaboration is special, and I know the fans are going to love it, and we know there’s going to be a lot of them. I’ll make sure to pack my Advil for those famous bumps!”

Each round of the Porsche Carrera Cup North America season is available live, through NBC’s online streaming service Peacock as well as IMSA.tv and IMSA’s YouTube Channel.

A three-day event, the Sebring Carrera Cup schedule begins with a pair of practice sessions today. Qualifying takes place Thursday morning at 9:15 a.m. EDT with the weekend’s first 40-minute sprint scheduled to start that afternoon at 4:55 p.m. EDT. Friday’s final race on the Carrera Cup schedule is set to go green at 6:10 p.m. EDT for a race into the sunset.