Lamborghini seems set to downscale its LMDh programme for 2025 and to compete in both the World Endurance Championship or the IMSA SportsCar Championship.
The Italian producer, which has partnered with the Iron Lynx staff in each collection, is enterprise a overview of its actions with the SC63 LMDh.
All choices are on the desk, together with axing the programme totally, in response to Lamborghini chief technical officer and appearing motorsport boss Rouven Mohr.
Mohr defined that the brand new regulatory requirement within the WEC subsequent yr for producers competing within the Hypercar class to run two automobiles is the rationale for the reassessment for subsequent yr.
“In the meanwhile we’re investigating all of the alternatives for subsequent yr,” Mohr advised Motorsport.com.
“The largest subject for us is that the second automotive [in WEC] was not foreseen. “It generates in our firm points to help the second automotive in an enough method.”
#63 Lamborghini Iron Lynx Lamborghini SC63: Mirko Bortolotti, Edoardo Mortara, Daniil Kvyat
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“Our want would have been to proceed with one automotive in IMSA [for the full season rather than in just the endurance races as this year] and one automotive in WEC.
“Now we’re in a scenario the place we have to discover a approach to handle two automobiles in WEC and one automotive in IMSA, or it could possibly be that we have now to resolve which programme we run.”
He mentioned {that a} choice “relies upon somewhat bit on the package deal we are able to afford”, including “this on the finish of the day, that is the query mark”.
Requested if ending the SC63 programme was the least doubtless possibility, he replied: “Sure, for positive.”
“I can say it could possibly be each possibility, however our want and clear goal is to proceed,” he added.
Mohr identified that Lamborghini, though a part of the Volkswagen group, is a small firm compared with its rivals working in Hypercar within the WEC and GTP in IMSA.
“We’re totally different to different producers as a result of we’re fairly new on this subject of motorsport,” mentioned Mohr.
#63 Lamborghini Iron Lynx Lamborghini SC63: Mirko Bortolotti, Edoardo Mortara, Daniil Kvyat
Picture by: Andreas Beil
“Squadra Corse [Lamborghini’s in-house motorsport department that manages the LMDh project] is lower than 30 folks.
“Earlier than we did GT3 and that is one other step for us – you can not develop from one week to the opposite.”
Mohr’s newest feedback symbolize a slight change in rhetoric from Lamborghini.
On the Le Mans 24 Hours in June, the corporate’s prime brass pressured the advantages of working two automobiles in WEC, similtaneously stopping wanting persevering with in IMSA.
Lamborghini’s slot for the 2025 IMSA collection was listed as an enduro-only entry when IMSA took the wraps off subsequent yr’s grid final month.
Ought to Lamborghini decide in opposition to persevering with in WEC, it might shut the door on its participation subsequent yr at Le Mans.
Iron Lynx boss Andrea Piccini advised Motorsport.com that the staff was able to run two automobiles in WEC and one in IMSA subsequent yr, however directed questions on the way forward for the programme to Lamborghini.
He identified in Bahrain forward of final weekend’s WEC finale that Iron Lynx and Lamborghini have been participating within the official rookie check the day after the race and likewise in a Michelin check focussed on improvement of a brand new vary of tyres for 2026 on Tuesday.
The presence of Michele Gatting and Celia Martin – who’re a part of Iron Lynx’s Iron Dames programme for feminine drivers – in a Manthey Racing Porsche 811 GT3-R on the Bahrain rookie check has fuelled hypothesis of a breakdown within the relationship between the Italian staff and Lamborghini.
Mohr recommended that not an excessive amount of needs to be learn into this and it shouldn’t be “interpreted as a unfavorable factor”. He insisted that Lamborghini and Iron Lynx are “nonetheless in partnership”.
It seems more and more sure, nonetheless, that the Iron Dames programme will swap to a Manthey Porsche from one of many Iron Lynx Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2s for subsequent yr.
Mohr identified that point was ticking for Lamborghini and that it was taking longer than anticipated to make a decision.
Entries for the WEC shut on 18 November.
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