The whispers that McLaren Racing was eyeing sports car racing have circulated for months and it made sense: The brand is, after all, a supercar to sell to consumers and the truest platform to showcase high-performance vehicles would be a prototype class of sports car racing. It was none other than John Doonan, president of IMSA, who said the quiet part out loud when, unprompted, in his prerace remarks about the strength of the series said: “It looks like the papaya army plans to join us.” “Our automotive business, which we work very closely with, is clearly synergistic with sports cars,” Brown told The Associated Press.