Wright Motorsports announced Wednesday morning (April 2) that driver Adam Adelson has purchased the race team that he has driven for since 2023 from team founder John Wright. The deal was done late in 2024, but the team had not made the move public until now.
While Adelson will now be the face of the operation, Wright will stay on in an advisory role. Adelson will run the team along with Bob Viglione, who has served as team manager for the last 14 years. Viglione will now be the team’s chief operating officer.
“John [Wright] built one of the most respected teams in the paddock, and my goal is to build on that foundation, not change it,” Adelson stated in a press release. “With this transition, we’re focused on expanding our customer programs in 2026 and beyond, while ensuring that the quality and family-like culture that defines Wright continues.”
“I’ve always dreamed of designing and building cars focused on the driving experience,” Adelson continued. “Racing has long served as a proving ground for the future of automotive innovation, and I believe Wright Motorsports has the potential to be a leader in that space again. Long-term, we want this to be a place where we not only race and win, but where we design, develop, and build performance vehicles that push boundaries. We’re already investing in our race engineering department and laying the groundwork for that future.”
“When Adam first came to me and said he wanted to start a race team, it was perfect timing,” Wright stated. “We were already close to a transition—whether I sold the team or pursued a different ownership model. Adam’s vision, his passion for racing, and his ability to grow the team in ways I always hoped made the decision easy. He and Bob work incredibly well together. It felt like the right time and the right people to carry it forward.”
Wright Motorsports as a team dates back to the early 2010s. Wright had previously worked with a suite of race teams in IMSA, the American Le Mans Series and Grand-Am before going on his own. The team slowly worked their way through smaller series before making their debut in the Rolex 24 at Daytona in 2013 in a collaboration with Snow Racing.
Since then, the team has fielded entries in both IMSA and SRO America, primarily on the GT3 level, but also in IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge.
For the 2025 season, Wright Motorsports has one full-time entry in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship’s GTD class. Adelson drives that car alongside his longtime driver coach Elliott Skeer. Tom Sargent is in the car for the five Michelin Endurance Cup races while Ayhuncan Guyen joined the team for Daytona. After two races, the team is currently third in GTD points with a second-place finish in Daytona.
In addition, Adelson is racing in the IMSA VP Racing SportsCar Challenge’s new GTDX class in another Porsche 911 GT3 R. He swept the opening weekend at Daytona and currently sits second in points.
The team is also running a full-time Porsche in GT World Challenge America powered by AWS for Jan Heylen and Alex Sedgwick. The team came within a whisker of winning Race No. 2 on Sunday at Sonoma Raceway.
Under Adelson’s ownership, not much will change with the team on the racetrack. They will continue to focus on IMSA, SRO America and Porsche Carrera Cup and try to “cultivate drivers and grow our customer ladder.”
What is changing is that a new wing of the team has opened up. Recently, the team opened up a secondary facility in Stuart, Fla. While that shop will house some of the team’s race cars and support those efforts, it will also support the local Porsche enthusiast community in Florida with service, parts and more.
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