the Dyson Racing squad and claimed the Teams' and Drivers' Championships. Rebellion Racing returned for Petit Le Mans, the final race of the American Le Mans Series before it would merge with the Rolex Sports Car Series to form the new United SportsCar Championship. A rain filled race saw the team lead overall until an overheating issue took the team's HPD out of the race. United SportsCar Championship While team owner and principle, Greg Pickett, was originally working with Nissan to field a factory Nissan GTR GT3 program in the newly formed Tudor United SportsCar Championship GT Daytona class, plans never come to fruition, forcing the team to continue with a privateer program for 2014. The team received shipment of a new Nissan powered Oreca 03 days before the Roar Before the 24 winter test. Driver's Klaus Graf and Lucas Luhr were joined by Alex Brundle for the season opening 24 Hours of Daytona and Jann Mardenborough for the 12 Hours of Sebring. The IMSA's balance of performance left the LMP2 teams with a substantial gap in top speed to the much higher powered Daytona Prototypes and although the LMP2 cars were much more competitive at Sebring, the team was plagued by a power steering issue that gave them a 5th-place finish at Daytona and a retirement at Sebring. The team originally decided to sit out the following two rounds of the championship to develop their Oreca chassis, but soon decided to withdraw from the championship in question of the series' officiating and the team's competitive future against the Daytona Prototypes. On May 16, 2014 it was announced that Muscle Milk Pickett Racing had closed its doors and would not return to competition. 24 Hours of Le Mans 2008 was a quiet year for the team. They did not compete in the American Le Mans Series because the team wanted to focus on the competing in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The team competed alongside Czech team Charouz Racing System. Pickett and Graf competed alongside sportscar racing veteran and 1988 24 Hours of Le Mans winner, Jan Lammers in the team's Lola B07/17. The team qualified the #12 LMP1 car 12th on the grid. The trio completed 146 laps before the 5.5 Liter Judd V10 failed and they had to retire. With a move to LMP2 for the newly formed Tudor United SportsCar Championship prototype class, Muscle Milk Pickett