The No. 75 75 Express Mercedes AMG GT3 at Daytona (Photo: Jared Bokanoski)
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – If you look up and down the entry list for the 2026 Rolex 24 at Daytona one of the most eye-catching lineups resides in the GTD PRO class. Kenny Habul’s 75 Express team will see Mercedes factory driver Maro Engel, defending Repco Supercars Champion Chaz Mostert and Indycar legend Will Power wlll join forces with the aforementioned Kenny Habul behind the wheel of the No. 75 Mercedes-AMG GT3.
Habul’s GT3 outfit will contend in its seventh Rolex 24, making their debut in 2017 as SunEnergy1 Racing, the team has been a mainstay at Daytona and the Rolex 24 since 2021, where they scored their team best finish of second with Habul joined by Mikael Grenier, Raffaele Marciello and Luca Stoltz.
The trio of Habul, Power and Mostert all took to the track for the Roar Before the Rolex 24 this past weekend, whilst Maro Engel was competing with Winward Racing for the 2026 24 Hours of Dubai. The trio would put the No. 75 in the top five of GTD PRO times in five of the weekend’s six full field sessions, with all three drivers topping the chart at one point in the weekend.
A weekend that saw Will Power make his Daytona debut in IMSA and Mostert return to the highbanks for the first time since his GTLM victory as part of BMW M Team RLL in 2020 alongside John Edwards, Augusto Farfus and Jesse Krohn.
The weekend started with Kenny Habul running a 1:47.899 in the first session to go third in class in the GTD PRO ranks behind the No. 59 McLaren and No. 9 Pfaff entries.
In Friday’s second session Supercar champ Chaz Mostert would top the board with a 1:47.625 a three tenths gap over the No. 65 Ford Mustang GT3 of Christopher Mies.
The session topping continued into Saturday’s opening round of practice as Will Power, who took to social media to remark “Daytona is awesome. How did I wait so long to do this?” Would top session three of the weekend.
The team wouldn’t make the top five in session four but would surge right back to the top of the board with Power returning to the top, once again going three tenths faster than second, which would be manufacture teammate Fabian Schiller in the No. 69 GetSpeed AMG.
The team would top the final session on Sunday morning as well as team owner Kenny Habul would seal the deal with a 1:47.530 to go fastest in the closing session and conclude their roar.
75 Express wasn’t the only AMG outfit to flex their muscle over the weekend though with all five of their teams scoring in the top five at some point over the weekend in both of IMSA’s GT categories.
Lone Star racing and back-to-back class champions Winward Racing would both find themselves up the charts in GTD while Winward’s GTD PRO entry and the aforementioned No. 69 GetSpeed entry carrying the torch in IMSA’s pro GT3 spec class.
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