Snow: Two-Car Paul Miller Squad Starting to Pay Dividends

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Madison Snow believes Paul Miller Racing’s expansion into a two-car BMW squad will begin to pay dividends as the GTD Pro class enters the sprint race portion of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season.

Snow, a two-time GTD class champion, has been the only mainstay with the Georgia-based squad’s full-season driver lineup, with its 2024 Michelin Endurance Cup pilot Neil Verhagen joining him in the No. 1 BMW M4 GT3 EVO for the full season, alongside fellow BMW factory drivers Max Hesse and Dan Harper in the No. 48 car.

“[It’s] definitely a big change going from one car to two cars,” said Snow. “I think that coming from Daytona and Sebring.

“The biggest change is the fact that you can’t get everybody the same lounge to do the debriefs. So, you definitely have a lot more people in them. You have a bigger spot or you’re splitting stuff up. There’s more information out there.

“That’s why you want to do what you can to debrief together to learn what the other car is doing to go out there with two different setups and then see what one works the best.

“I have the some of the same question because I think Daytona and Sebring are so different with adding a new car to a team and then having so many people, I think those two races are completely different than or going be quite a bit different than how the rest of the year can play out when there’s only four drivers.

“I think it’s been beneficial so far, but I think we can definitely get in a rhythm going on with these sprint races.”

This weekend’s two-hour and 40-minute race at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca will offer the first opportunity for the recently expanded team to work in a smaller way, per say.

“Setup and data are where the information is; talk and strategy ideas, you have more people that have more ideas,” said Snow.

“The meetings take a little bit longer, but eventually you’ll have somebody will say something that nobody else has thought of, and you’re like, ‘Man, that’s a great idea.’ So, if you know, you’re putting more manpower behind it.”

The team’s expansion to a two-car operation comes after multiple championship-winning seasons and first step up to GTD Pro last year.

“I think we were very competitive in the years before with us being a one car team going up against some strong teams,” said Snow.

“Do I think that this [will] help us make us work [better]? I have no idea yet.

“I can look and say that we have been super, super strong at Daytona and Sebring and very competitive.

“And so, if that stays how it is, which there is no reason to think that it shouldn’t, if we can carry on that moment them and that power to be had, we’re definitely a force to be reckoned with all year.”